Ashleigh

“Real challenges are far more invigorating than controlled leisure.”
― Daniel Pink

“What behaviors are rewarded? Punished? Where and how are people actually spending their resources (time, money, attention)? What rules and expectations are followed, enforced, and ignored? Do people feel safe and supported talking about how they feel and asking for what they need? What are the sacred cows? Who is most likely to tip them? Who stands the cows back up? What stories are legend and what values do they convey? What happens when someone fails, disappoints, or makes a mistake? How is vulnerability (uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure) perceived? How prevalent are shame and blame and how are they showing up? What’s the collective tolerance for discomfort? Is the discomfort of learning, trying new things, and giving and receiving feedback normalized, or is there a high premium put on comfort (and how does that look)?”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Enlightenment is a shared enterprise. It needs some other voice saying, You are not wrong. . . .”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“They needed the numbers, so they directed their creativity and resourcefulness toward getting those numbers, rather than toward effective performance.”
― Edward L. Deci, Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation