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Friday Reflections 2607

Jul 26, 2024

Happy Friday everyone. Here’s something to reflect on over the weekend perhaps… 

Today’s read is about 4-6 minutes. Post-read pondering not included. A good article. I was a little suspicious at the beginning, wondering where the author was going. I like where they ended up. An additional suggestion to their Point #1 – this does not mean complaining. Describing emotions is different to just having a whinge. If you have to start with a whinge, so be it, but people are more inclined to listen to you for longer if you’re sharing emotions thoughtfully rather than just complaining all the time. What do you know about stoicism? Do you think it is relevant in today's world? 

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2024/07/23/a-psychologist-shares-3-ways-men-can-escape-the-modern-stoicism-trap/ 

Last week’s riddle question and answer; A baby fell out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and yet it survived. How? Two correct guesses, well done; It fell from the ground floor window.  

This week’s riddle is;  You’re standing alone in a place on the surface of the Earth. You walk 1km south, then 1km west, and finally 1km north again. You see footprints. Whose footprints are they, and where are you?  

 

Time for a moment to reflect, I think.