Longevity

9 behaviours to a longer, healthier life:
1. Move ( find ways to move mindlessly, make moving unavoidable )
2. Plan de Vida ( know your purpose in life )
3. Down Shift ( work less, slow down, rest, take vacation )
4. 80% Rule ( stop eating when you're 80% full )
5. Plant-Power ( more veggies, less protein and processed foods )
6. Red Wine ( consistency and moderation )
7. Belong ( create a healthy social network )
8. Beliefs ( spiritual or religious participation )
9. Your Tribe ( make family a priority )

Source:
Power9
Dan Buettner

Holding firmly to truth

I learned a new word today.

Satyagraha is a three-step instrument of change, not a mere act of protest.

The first step is to object to an unjust law or policy and petition for its removal. Absent an acceptable response, the second step is to break the law. The third step is to undergo the consequences, be they arrest, violence, abuse or privation.

Satyagraha means "holding firmly to the truth" in Hindi and by following the process, remaining focused and calm within one's belief.

Source:
Blessed Unrest
Paul Hawken
Page 78 - 79
ISBN: 9780670038527

7 lessons from Mozilla

7 lessons from Mozilla

1. Superior products matter.
2. Push ( most ) decisions-making to the edges.
3. Communication will happen in every possible way ( so make sure it's reusable ).
4. Make it easy for your community to do the important things.
5. Surprise is overrated.
6. Communities are not markets: members are citizens.
7. The key is the art of figuring out whether and how to apply each of these ideas.

Source:
Lessons from Mozilla
John Lilly
WordCamp San Francisco 2009

I understand lesson 5 as don't surprise. Open communications beyond the inner circle. Let everyone who wants to know what Mozilla is doing knows what they are doing.

Curiosity Management

How can we be learned people? The answer lies in using our curiosity. When we come across things that we feel curious about, what do we do? We find answers for them. A-ha! This is the way to being learned people.

Curiosity Management Process

1. Be curious.
2. Create opportunities for us to be curious.
3. Record what makes us curious.
4. Ask questions.
5. Find learning resources.
6. Ask learning resources questions.
7. Record what learning resources help us to answer the questions.

As we answer more curiosities, we learn more. As we learn more, we become learned people.

TED is spreading...

While I was reading the top 7 places to watch great minds in action blog post, I discovered a pattern. The idea of TED conference is spreading...

The host location has spread across America and the World.

From Long Beach, California, US to Camden, Maine, US to Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

TED to PopTech to ideaCity.

TED was originally hosted at Monterey, California, US.

The presentation subject matters have spread beyond technology, entertainment and design to innovation to experience design.

TED to Business Innovation Factory to GEL.

TED has spread into many subject matters.

There seems to be a growing guild of conference organizers who bring together interesting speakers, curious listeners and knowledge sharing infrastructure. May we have more TED like conferences to watch.

This lead me to asking are there any other TED like conferences? I found 4.

DLD, Munich, Germany

Le Web, Paris, France

Lift, Geneva, Switzerland

Picnic, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Principles of conversation

Principles of conversation

1. We acknowledge one another as equals.
2. We try to stay curious about each other.
3. We recognize that we need each other's help to become better listeners.
4. We slow down so we have time to think and reflect.
5. We remember that conversation is the natural way humans think together.
6. We expect it to be messy at times.

Source:

Turning to one another
expanded second edition

Margaret Wheatley

Page 33

ISBN: 9781576757642

10 leadership skills for the future

I blogged about the idea of the 10 super powers of the amplified individuals a year ago. It is about the collaboration skills we need in the future. The idea has been remix into the 10 leadership skills for the future by Bob Johansen.

10 leadership skills for the future

1. Maker Instinct

Ability to turn one’s natural impulse to build into a skill for making the future and connecting with others in the making. The maker instinct is basic to leadership in the future.

2. Clarity

Ability to see through messes and contradictions to a future that others cannot yet see. Leaders are very clear about what they are making, but very flexible about how they get it made.

3. Dilemma Flipping

Ability to turn dilemmas - which, unlike problems, cannot be solved - into advantages and opportunities.

4. Immersive Learning Ability

Ability to dive into different-for-you physical and online worlds, to learn from them in a first-person way.

5. Bio-Empathy

Ability to see things from nature’s point of view; to understand, respect, and learn from nature’s patterns. Nature has its own clarity,

if only we humans can understand and engage with it.

6. Constructive Depolarizing

Ability to calm tense situations where differences dominate and communication has broken down - and bring people from divergent cultures toward constructive engagement.

7. Quiet Transparency

Ability to be open and authentic about what matters to you - without advertising yourself.

8. Rapid Prototyping

Ability to create quick early versions of new innovations, with the expectation that later success will require early failures.

9. Smart Mob Organizing

Ability to bring together, engage with, and nurture purposefull business or social-change networks through intelligent use of electronic and other media.

10. Commons Creating

Ability to stimulate, grow and nurture shared assets that can benefit other players - and allow competition at a higher level.

Source:

Leaders make the future
Bob Johansen

ISBN: 9781605090023