While I don’t agree that what you like matters more than what you are like, I believe that our experiences and exposure shapes us. Here’s what shapes me.
Practices
- The Five Principles of Circling, via Circling Europe:
- Commitment to connection
- Owning your experience
- Staying at the level of sensation
- Trusting experience
- Being with the other in their world
- The 10 Principles of Burning Man:
- Radical inclusion
- Gifting
- Decommodification (somewhat less relevant in daily life for me)
- Radical self-reliance
- Radical self-expression
- Civic responsibility
- Leave No Trace
- Participation
- Immediacy
- Communal effort
- Yoga
- Tarot
Writing
- Daring Greatly & Rising Strong – Brene Brown
- The Culture Map – Erin Meyer
- Reinventing Organizations– Frederic Laloux
- ‘Give Away Your Legos’ and Other Commandments for Scaling Startups
- Brave New Work – Aaron Dignan
- An Everybody Culture – Robert Kagan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
- The Omnivores Dilemma – Michael Pollan
- The poetry of Andrea Gibson, especially I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When my Power’s Out
Media
- Avatar, the Last Airbender
- Gilmore Girls
- Grey’s Anatomy
- The West Wing
- Sailor Moon
- The Flash (TV Series)