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129, 132, 133, 140, 143, 151

106, 108, 120, 123, 128

98 If trips should be about places to go or places that help you return.
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79, 81, 87

68, 75

Pg 3, 5, 46,

Pg. 178-179, “ innovation often comes from those closest to the problem”
Pg. 223 rest inequality is the gap in the quality, duration, and amount of rest we get, particularly low for racial and ethnic minorities

Pg 174 “problem loving” is the tendency for leaders to assume that awareness of the problem is the same as solving it. The myth of problem loving is that knowledge of the problem is all we need to solve it. We think we’re fixing the problem by understanding how bad the problem is!

Pg 101 reflection. The description of the aids epidemic reminds me of Covid

Pg 33-43 on reflections
Pg 83 well it’s important to take a stance against systems that reinforce subjugation. It’s simply not enough to define our work, by what it is in opposition too. Love is not anti-hate nor is courage anti-fear. when we define ourselves and our work in this way, we limit ourselves because we are so much more than the opposite of what we seek to eliminate

Pg 212 “In 2003 – Dacher Keltner and I posted a review paper on the emotion of awe in which we argued that awe is triggered by two simultaneous perceptions: first, that what you are looking at is vast in someway and second that you can’t fit it into your existing mental structures

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

“.. art is the magnificence wrung from the ugly dish towel of existence.”

Pg. 10 “It is widely known in our field that most student affairs professionals are shot as properly trained to supervise as faculty in most disciplines are properly trained to teach.”

Dreams are like fireflies; they do not fade or disappear, only glow brilliantly, floating in a bottle, like dreams in our hearts.

There is not a life that does not contribute to history.

Pg 46 Momentum with music, giving yourself permission to start a task, how can I move towards this task?, using wait times to accomplish tasks, bundling a din and not fun task, doing the task with a friend, setting a timer

Pg 167 mindful breathing before a test or work meeting

Pg 123, flow, craft; humans are crafters and we’ve created a society that looks down on those who use their hands and their vocations
Pg 156 questions to all students about their motivation for taking the course
Pg 158 vocabulary outline. Practice, quality, craft
Pg 159 the original foundation of the corporation as a business rests on community service

Pg 109 college invites the reversal of one’s story and the hearing of others; hometown, year, major, and aspirations.
Pg 114 determining purpose requires judgement on what is a worthy purpose and the action to pursue that. Making judgement about a life worth living and how to pursue that involves morality which students don’t often have.

Pg 79 general contemplative guidelines
Pg 81 mindful listening techniques
Pg 83 mindful breathing
Pg 92 do this exercise with the book club
Pg 99 start each class with a contemplative pause and end with a reflection on what’s been presented

Pg. 65 Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Pg. 67 8 characteristics of flow; the holistic sensation people have when they act with total involvement
Pg. 69, without reflection, whatever new experiences we have end up like residue from unmetabolized food

Pg. 36, as much guidance comes from what does not and cannot happen in one’s life as in what can and does -maybe more.
Pg. 37 we must help them realize that it’s possible to discover several equally compelling possibilities; it’s not necessary to narrow them down.
54. Discernment is best negotiated in community