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In South Africa, we know this concept as Ubuntu. It means that we are only human through the connections we make with other humans. We reach each other, we teach each other, we learn from each other.
Ubuntu
“The tragedy of industrial agriculture is that it takes great care of the objective needs of animals, while neglecting their subjective needs.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“leadership isn’t a role or a position. Instead it’s really a way of being with others that makes them want to follow you.”
― Being Coached: Group and Team Coaching From the Inside
― Being Coached: Group and Team Coaching From the Inside
“One of the things that a Mastermind promises to do is to allow every participant to make rapid progress, whether it relates to her/ his professional activity or to her/ his personal development. And we don’t believe that can be accomplished by avoiding the mention of the weak points that we perceive in others, or in their work, since we want to help everyone quickly. As partners in responsibility, the participants should, therefore, offer one another honest, sincere feedback that will help unleash some quantum leaps. A Mastermind group is a space where lightning fast experimentation and learning takes place. Participants’ feedback should also be lightning fast.”
― Mastermind Groups: Accelerators of Success
― Mastermind Groups: Accelerators of Success
“But even in its secular incarnation, Thanksgiving is built on lore that does not jibe with the historical facts. The idea of a peaceful breaking of bread where the Pilgrims had nothing but good intentions toward their Native American hosts is a national mythology, not a religious one. Whatever took place between the Wampanoag and the European settlers in Plymouth, it was not the inclusive dinner party we’re told about in school. There’s no evidence a single Native American was present. The only certainty is that it was a prelude to massacres of entire villages and the obliteration of whole societies. So what do we do with this kind of ritual? How do”
― For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals and reflections for finding wonder
― For Small Creatures Such As We: Rituals and reflections for finding wonder
“Finally, we can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals. Much of the vaunted material wealth that shields us from disease and famine was accumulated at the expense of laboratory monkeys, dairy cows and conveyor-belt chickens. Over the last two centuries tens of billions of them have been subjected to a regime of industrial exploitation whose cruelty has no precedent in the annals of planet Earth. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Brian’s 2025 Year in Books
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