by Kare Anderson | Feb 24, 2016 | behavior, Caring, contagion
For many years when I was growing up my parents took what some Brits call an evening constitutional – a walk. They strolled, often hand in hand, around the neighborhood – just the two of them. Sometimes, they talked. Other evenings they said little, so I am told. Yet...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 13, 2016 | behavior, Caring, Connecting
Sometimes I self-sabotage in talking with others, especially those I do not know them well, then feel badly afterwards. As Mindwise author Nicholas Epley shows, we overestimate how well we understand how others see us and what they are thinking, yet here are four ways...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 12, 2016 | behavior, Caring, collaboration, Collective Clout
I got this strange idea in eighth grade. To run for student body president is not a surprising decision for most outgoing, popular students. But I was neither. In fact I tended to daydream, read books that were not on the required list, and sit in the table at the far...
by Kare Anderson | Dec 6, 2015 | behavior, Book, Caring, mutuality matters
1. Triangle Talk to Get Closer Increasingly, within the U.S. more people are living and working alone. That may be why we are more likely to talk about ourselves more often in conversation, bouncing back to our own interests when responding to others. Instead, pull...
by Kare Anderson | Oct 13, 2015 | Book, Caring, cause, Co-Create
“I’d like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” Jimmy Carter said in his usual humble way when he announced that his cancer had spread to his brain. When The Carter Center launched the eradication campaign in 1986, over 3.5 million people in 21 countries had...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 11, 2015 | behavior, Caring
At the end of last year, Pope Francis suggested it was an apt time to examine our conscience — yet it behooves us to do that more often. That’s not always easy but always vital as Todd Essig suggests, citing Peter Seeger and Martin Luther King. Acting with...
