Handling jealousy
I got an interesting question from someone this week:
How you handle jealousy?
There is only this one person that makes me jealous.
Tales from the trenches: Lessons learned from Netscape, Yahoo!, and Google
I get asked a lot by people for career advice. A lot of the questions center around getting to some destination, such as “How do I get promoted to the next level?” or “What kinds of career paths are available for designers?” In other words,
“Where am I going, and how do I level up?”
Want a job? Act as if you already have the job.
An acquaintance of mine reached out to me about landing an internship for her daughter in product design.
Designer seeking advice...
Earlier this week I received a message from a young designer asking for advice on how to land her dream job.
"I'm not good at yoga."
Now that I'm teaching yoga, the topic of yoga comes up in conversation from time to time. A comment I hear often is "I don't do yoga. I'm not good at it." The irony of this comment fascinates me. How come one rarely says, "I don't go to strength training classes, because I'm not strong," yet people say they don't do yoga because they're not flexible?
"Grown-ups like numbers"
We are rereading "The Little Prince" by Antoine De Saint-Exupery during bedtime stories. (Even though my kids are old enough to read to themselves, we still enjoy the nighttime ritual of having me read to them.)
Contemplating non-attachment
Book I, Sutra 15, "Yoga Sutras of Patanjali"
Drstanusravika visaya vitrsnasya vasikara samjna vairagyam
The consciousness of self-mastery in one who is free from craving for objects seen or heard about is non-attachment.
Who is the inventor?
The other day, Sophie brought home stencils and coloring pages about inventors including George Stephenson and Leonardo da Vinci. It prompted an interesting discussion with Charlotte as the two of them argued as passionately as I've ever seen them.