Posts by Carol Ross
Gratefulness and Gratitude
Last week, I blogged about the small things in life that give us pleasure–pomegranates, lost objects found, sunrises. I think of this as having gratitude. When I think of gratefulness, I think of the big stuff–freedom, family, health. I was reminded of all that I have to be grateful for in one day recently. That…
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I’m amazed at how quickly the week goes by. It seems like I just blogged and I see it’s been nearly a week since I posted anything. In a recent Wall Street Journal, I spied this headline: "The Battle Over Toilet Testing," with a subtitle of "Industry is Divided Over How to Measure Flushing Power:…
Read MorePomegranates, Black Pants, and Sunrises
I’ve been delighted with small surprises in the last few days. Over the weekend, I was sitting next to a woman at a karate tournament who was eating pomegranate seeds. "Is that a pomegranate?" I was curious as I had only seen the dried pomegranates in lovely wreaths from Smith and Hawken and fresh pomegranates…
Read MoreSmile Test
Another fun exercise from A Whole New Mind book: To test your ability to read people, take a look at the following url: www.tinyurl.com/2u7sh It’s the BBC’s ten minute, 20-question test, based on solid research, to see how good you are at detecting the difference between a fake smile and a real one. I was…
Read MoreA Whole New Mind
It takes a pretty good book to keep my interest until the last page. I’ve started countless books only to put them down after 50 or 100 pages. Fortunately, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink is not one of them. Daniel Pink is the author of Free Agent Nation (which I have not read)…
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