Have you ever considered the miracle that is your mind as opposed to the miracle of your brain?
Physiologically the brain is amazing, but real magic lies in your mind. Not just magic, but incredible power.
As Buddha said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.”
Oscar Wilde believed that “A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” I imagine he would be horrified at how many people have turned their thinking over to someone else and just follow blindly along.
Amos Bronson Alcott put …read more

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James Heskett is a Baker Foundation Professor, Emeritus at Harvard Business School and posts some of the most intriguing research questions I see at HBS Working Knowledge (FREE registration).
This week is no exception.
“According to Gerald and Lindsay Zaltman, nearly all research techniques commonly used today probe humans only at their conscious level, though it is the subconscious level that really determines behavior.
Online forum OPEN for comment until June 26. Jim Heskett asks: What is your organization—and what are you—doing to bring more deep thinking into work and life?”
I hope you’ll take a moment and …read more