Personal growth: what does Mark Zuckerberg’s desk tell us? April 11, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Leadership.Tags: life, lifestyle, motivation, personal development, personal growth, personal growth workspace, philosophy
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And also from a personal development perspective, what do Elon Musk, Thomas Edison, Mark Zuckerberg, and Thomas Jefferson have in common?
Answer: Each of them is associated with an interesting desk or workspace.
A whimsical article in Quartz, written by Lois Farfel Stark, looks at how a desk can reflect the mind and personal style of the person using the desk.
“Desks have long been the home of the mind: an intimate space where you figure out what you think…there are plenty of examples of important pioneers and thought leaders who embraced unusual workspace arrangements,” the article says.
The article discusses the desks and/or workspaces of:
Elon Musk – Entrepreneur and innovative engineer
Thomas Edison – Inventor extraordinaire
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
Thomas Jefferson – Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States of America
The article has a photograph of each of their desks and also includes background on each individual.
Here’s a link to the article:
Personal growth: Why massive change takes time April 11, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Concept of personal growth.Tags: achieving goals, creating habits, eliminating bad habits, life, personal improvement, philosophy, self-actualization, spirituality
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By Dennis Mellersh
If you’re discouraged with your rate of progress with self-actualization, remind yourself that personal development is a marathon, not a hundred-yard dash.
It requires making many changes over time in how we think and operate; and much thought and mental work.
Changing constant negative thinking is an example.
It is a habit.
And we can’t get rid of a bad habit, or successfully create a new good habit, just by willing it.
Habits, are the result of practise and repetition; and will not be undone (bad habit) or created (good habit) without repetition.
Either repeatedly not doing, or repeatedly doing, or both.
We can commit right now, today, to be willing to make what Tony Robbins describes as “massive change” in our lives.
But actually making the change we want will demand many small steps is a lengthy journey.
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