coaching for clarity and courage
Prince, making some old white dudes look like amateurs I was a very good kid at seventeen. Very, very good. I loved my parents unabashedly. I didn’t drink. I didn’t smoke, not even cigarettes. I didn’t even stay out late. I […]
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Yesterday I wrote about Stanislav Petrov and Vassily Arkhipov, two men who literally saved the world from destruction. When you think about it, though, most of us can save the world when we know that’s what we’re doing. Given the […]
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I read a blog post today about not being brave. Bruce DeSilva, blogging for the Washington Post, wrote about the time he learned of a priest abusing a child – and ignored it. He had acceptable reasons for ignoring it. His […]
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Don’t be the monkey. This Jonathan Coulson song sums up a lot of our lives, just lumping along waiting for something magical to make it better. In this case, it’s a woman he’s objectifying into a magical savior object. For […]
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The word resilient gets tossed around a lot. In international development, in climate change, even when talking about children who’ve been through trauma. It’s a vague concept, though. It’s not the same as prepared, because resilience implies you’re ready for anything, not […]
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I’ve been coaching and mentoring international development people for a while now. I wrote one of the first international development blogs, Blood and Milk, and it brought a lot of people to me who had really interesting questions. It was […]
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Jean Mercer runs a blog called Childmyths. It is a quixotic, one-woman effort devoted to providing evidence-based data on child development. In her own words, “The blog focuses on parsing mistaken beliefs that can influence people’s decisions about childrearing– for […]
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Seriously, it is. The People of Color in European Art History blog is fighting racism using its curator’s skills – the ability to discuss art history and find historical artwork for display. It is almost single-handedly disproving the popular idea that […]
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Ibtihaj Muhammad is the seventh-best fencer in the world. So, to be fair, maybe she is brave because she can just run you through with a sword if you annoy her. But someone did annoy her recently, and she handled […]
Read More »First, let me tell you that if you joined Peace Corps you are already incredibly brave. Moving to an unknown place to live in poverty just for the chance to help people. Brave as hell. For real. But maybe you […]
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