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Why Don't We Ever Learn?

Monday Jan 25 2010

   By Jim Selman | Bio
As we watch the devastation in Haiti on television, the world recoils at the horror and the suffering, mobilizes its resources and tries to clean up the mess and help the survivors. The media forages, looking for who to blame (usually corrupt or incompetent politicians). We’ve witnessed this scene following earthquakes countless times: in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake 2008 when 69,000 died in China; in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake when 230,000 died in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand; in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake where 86,000 died in Pakistan; in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake when 142,800 died in Japan; and even in 1908’s Messina earthquake when 100,000 died in Italy. If we think about the hurricanes, volcanoes, fires, tsunamis and famine, it seems the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” are doing a fabulous business these days. The fact is[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: apathy disaster earthquake haiti haiti_earthquake ignorance learning poverty resignation responsibility

Curing Loneliness

Friday Jan 22 2010

Loneliness is curable. Here are some easy steps to help get you engaged:

  •  Reconnect with family and friends. Let go of any resentments or regrets you have. Reach out to people you haven't spoken with in a long time and do whatever it takes to rekindle the relationship. Spend time with them and communicate using whatever methods work.
  • Surround yourself with upbeat people. Choose your friends carefully. Happiness is just as contagious as loneliness.
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Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: community exercise happiness learning loneliness relationships volunteer

Learning and Environmental Choices

Thursday Nov 26 2009

   By Rick Fullerton | Bio
I continue to be struck by the environmental challenges facing planet earth. With signs of increasing public awareness about the deepening climate crisis, it is gratifying to sense a noticeable shift taking place in my own and others’ behaviour. For instance, I see more and more people supporting recycling programs, choosing Energy Star appliances, and driving fuel efficient cars. And we change our light bulbs! Yet is it enough?[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: al_gore an_inconvenient_truth carbon_dioxide david_suzuki environment learning

The Medium is the Message

Friday Aug 21 2009

  By Jim Selman | Bio
Forty-five years ago Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message”. I wonder what he would have made of today’s media-on-steroids. Someone sent me a fascinating YouTube piece called “Social Media in Plain English” , which was followed up with a dramatic piece on the extraordinary impact of all that is going on in the Social Media Revolution. It includes a new term I had never seen before: socialnomics. It’s getting easier and easier to feel ignorant and out of touch. The general consensus is that the phenomenon of social networking/social media is as potentially revolutionary as the Industrial Revolution.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: communication conversation future learning social_media social_networking time

Cooking and the Generation Gap

Tuesday Aug 18 2009

   By Sharon Knoll | Bio


Cooking with my daughter, Krista, is bliss. We were making Crabby Crabcakes, an incredible recipe from Mark Bittman at the NY Times. They were 99% crab with a little bit of stuff we purchased at the Queen Anne Farmers Market to hold them together: brand new potatoes baked with olive oil and rosemary, and sautéed summer squash and caramelized onions with  herbs. (Can you stand it? Are you ready to rush out and cook and enjoy the wonderful tastes of fresh grown great food?) 

Our cooking together is like a dance—an intensive information and learning exchange.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: cooking elder eldering generation_gap learning marketing relationship technology

Goodbye Mimi

Monday Aug 10 2009

   By Jim Selman | Bio
This has been a sad week. My partner’s mother died at the age of 94. Even when the end is expected (and perhaps even welcomed after a long period of decline), it nonetheless has a powerful impact on those who cared. All of the clichés aside, there just isn’t much to say to the bereaved other than “I am sorry for your loss.” As we get older, death and dying becomes a larger part of our day-to-day reality as we lose friends and loved ones. For “Mimi”, there weren’t many left. She outlived almost everyone of her generation.

 

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Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: death dying learning life loss

Following Your Bliss & U-Turns

Tuesday Jun 02 2009

The following segment from Tom Freston's 2007 commencement speech to the graduates at Emerson College contains four pieces of wisdom about 'being in action' that are timeless. This man built MTV and Viacom's cable empire, was fired by chairman Sumner Redstone, accepted a $60 million severage package and is now helping Oprah build her new TV network while you travels to Afghanistan, Burma, Rwanda and beyond and works with Bono to reduce global poverty and AIDS.  [Read More]

Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action

Tagged with: adventure bliss career curiosity experience learning travel

Not Easy: Just Clear

Friday May 29 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
Yesterday I was coaching a friend of mine. I was sharing a bit of how important it is to ‘come from’ your vision for your life. Our future is always a product of our actions, and our actions are always a correlate of how we relate to the future. When we act as if the future has already happened, then it is only a matter of time before that future is realized or we learn what we need to learn to achieve it. Her response was, “Well, you make it sound so simple, but it is too abstract and I need to know ‘how’ to have what I want in the future.” This was my response.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: being context doing learning mastery paradigm

Learning from Experience

Tuesday Mar 17 2009

   By Rick Fullerton | Bio
Over the past few months I have been an absentee blogger, a consequence of having accepted a full-time work assignment that I expected to last two years or more. I was enticed by a personal request for my services to lead a strategic initiative that would call on my experience and skills. So after nearly 10 years as a freelance consultant, I returned to work inside an organization at age 62. Any major decision like this comes with[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning
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Tagged with: contribution learning relationship service

Old Friends

Monday Feb 23 2009

By Jim Selman | Bio
I think one of the saddest things I hear of as I grow older is when real friends become estranged. It isn’t that we can’t have strong disagreements and even periods of disengaging from regular conversations at any age. But when ‘falling outs’ become long-term estrangement, bitter memories, regrets and resentment people we once called friends become burdens or even foes. We pay a heavy price to hold onto whatever stories we tell ourselves to justify our position. Most people would rather be right about their point of view than repair the damage to their friendships or at least to responsibly ‘complete’ the relationships that cannot be restored and forgive themselves and the other person.[Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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Tagged with: friends learning relationship value

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