"Being understood is not the most essential thing in life."
Jodie Foster
26 Aug 2020
Browsing category: Ideas
14 Feb 2019
Organisations can create this internal dilemma where their employees hear that the business wants them to make authentic connections, to bring more of their whole self to work and provide exemplary customer service. Yet the drive for greater efficiency, bigger profits and smarter innovations can cause behaviour that emphasises and even rewards selfish pursuits. At Made Better Human, we’re interested in making prominent again the very things that make our humanity shine. When we are at our best, the rest of life wins. The<br
09 Aug 2018
"We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.”
Jimmy Neil Smith
09 Jan 2018
"Stories are our primary tools of learning and teaching, the repositories of our lore and legends. They bring order into our confusing world. Think about how many times a day you use stories to pass along data, insights, memories or common-sense advice.”
Edward Miller
18 Sep 2017
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave ... when first we practice to deceive." Walter Scott, Marmion
11 Sep 2017
For most of us, we need to believe that we are good people, following sound thinking processes and purposefully using our bodies and minds as we move through our lives planning, deciding and acting with intentions that are good. We like to think we are making good choices because we are good people. It takes a particularly unique individual to approach life with an unadulterated belief that they are bad and must advance through life making poor decisions and consistently performing bad deeds. However, on any given day, from our
16 May 2017
"The greatest of all delusions is the conviction that knowledge is not a delusion."
Tripura Rahasya
15 Jan 2017
"Everybody's a teacher if you listen."
Doris Roberts
24 Dec 2016
"The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon." Brandon Sanderson
11 Dec 2016
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
Robin Williams