Compassion may be more at home in the corporate world than is commonly expected. It’s true that businesses can be more concerned with looking good than doing good. But when you have to answer to stakeholders, there is at least some pressure to show not just that you take the welfare of others seriously, but that you are actually doing something constructive about it and not merely wasting resources on empty gestures.
ReadIt seems to be the people who waste the least time, cramming as much as possible into their lives, who most feel the shortness of life. Those who appreciate the value of each day are not inclined to waste too many. So if you do use your time well, what exactly is life too short for?
ReadTrue self-knowledge demands neither complete trust of our introspective judgments nor deference to the calculations of the spreadsheet, but a combination of the insights of both.
ReadIs it really impossible to have your cake and eat it too? Only if you want to eat and keep all of it: there’s no contradiction in cutting a slice and keeping most for later. What can look like pedantry is actually a powerful rigour that can remove some contradictions by simply showing that they are no such thing.
ReadBe mindful of the perennial mistake of zealots everywhere, of elevating a good to the good, inevitably making it worse, not better.
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