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: Wasting people and wasting words April 4, 2017
Posted by Dennis Mellersh in Solving Problems.Tags: Confucius, life, lifestyle, personal development, personal growth program, philosophy, self-actualization
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By Dennis Mellersh
Knowing when we should share advice and when we should withhold it can be an important skill or aptitude to develop in our personal development and self-actualization learning program.
Sometimes we don’t share when our input is needed by someone and other times we share when the recipient is not open to receiving it.
The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius sums up the predicament this way:
“When a person is capable of understanding your words and you refuse to speak, you’re wasting a person. When a person isn’t capable of understanding your words and you speak anyway, you’re wasting words. The wise waste neither words nor people.” (1)
Not always easy however to determine which of the two divergent scenarios we are dealing with.
That’s why it’s a skill; and it takes some time and work to learn.
(1) Quoted in The Analects as translated by David Hinton in his book The Four Chinese Classics
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