More career and life advice from my favorite Wharton professor, Adam Grant:
Be flexible.
Be reliable.
I thought this Pew research was so interesting for seeing what the religious makeup of America is right now. Every 2 in 100 people are LDS. Progress! More progress is that they include us with the Christians and don't think we're some "other" religion. Yay! As a whole, I believe we're more Christian than anyone. (And I firmly believe that someday everyone will know the Church really is true!)
I wish the "religiously unaffiliated" category were a lot smaller.
I finally read the book The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins in December. It was really good, and I got a lot out of it. I took lots of notes ("book notes," I call them) and took a few screenshots of things that felt especially relevant:
This was not only a good point, but also really funny:
I can have some negative thoughts about people, and they can have them about me, but we can still like or love each other. This is a mindset shift for me. I used to think negative thoughts equaled dislike or problems that needed to be fixed. And it can be that, but certainly not always. (See above and below.)
I know from personal painful experience that this is so true.
This Argentinian woman has seen democratic socialism fail in her country. It would do the same here in the U.S., and for the same reasons she gives (in the second paragraph).
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I'm so thankful!
I read this short little book that I saw at the library. The Declaration of Independence was such an inspired document, and it changed the course of history (and helped set the stage for the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ about fifty years later).
Relating it today.
We definitely need more of this in our government and in our society. And also in ourselves as individuals. One of my New Year's goals is to be more balanced and temperate in certain ways. A little more on that in my next post!
