Posts by Shawn "Man On Fire" Nason
Like Child’s Play: 6 Ways to Create an Adaptable Mindset
LIKE CHILD’S PLAY: 6 WAYS TO CREATE AN ADAPTABLE MINDSET
A study released recently sought to explore why children seem to have more immunity to COVID-19 than adults and are more likely to resist infections or have asymptomatic/mild infections. The researchers found that (most) children are able to fight off COVID-19 because their immune systems are still operating under the assumption that pathogens entering the…
Read MoreMindset 3: Embrace the Mess and Enjoy the Reward
“Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.†That’s what Cheryl Strayed concludes in her best-selling memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail. After her mother’s death, Strayed made a string of bad choices that led to a failed marriage and substance abuse. With nothing more…
Read MoreMindset 2: Authenticity Before Action
In August, astronauts safely splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, completing NASA’s first successful mission in partnership with a commercial space flight company, Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It was a bright spot for all of us worried about what shoe might drop next in this year of disasters. And it offered a lesson in a…
Read MoreShift Your Mindset and Move To Healing: Radical Relationships
What do radical relationships look like in America? Consider an episode of Black-ish in which Dre Johnson finds a girl in an elevator. Dre begins the scene with a question: “What truly makes America great?†Then he steps towards the office elevator, where he finds a little white girl, alone and on the verge of…
Read MoreFinding a Way Forward, Together: Future-Focused Inclusion
When it comes to diversity in the workplace, the real work is only beginning, and the only way forward is together. To do so, we need to consider an area where the workforce is already diverse: age. Virtually every workplace includes people from multiple generations, but the generational mix is changing—and quickly. Within a decade,…
Read MoreDon’t think outside the (check box). Blow it up.
US companies spend $8 billion a year on diversity and inclusion initiatives—with squat to show for it. Consider the equivalent spending for a US company’s R&D budget: $8 billion dollars puts you in the top 20 of all corporate innovation spending. That’s equal to Ford’s annual budget, and more than Pfizer, Facebook, General Motors, and…
Read MoreHealing the Great Divide: When a Red Man Stood Up for What Is Right
My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness. Maya Angelo I’ve never understood this quote more than I do today. Just like so many of you, I’m struggling with our current world. So much tension. So…
Read MoreCompassion and the Man in the Mirror
Over the past several months, I’ve been on a journey to explore the topic of compassion, especially reflecting on compassion as the act of alleviating another person’s suffering. (See my recent blog Turning Empathy into Action.) Like many of you, I’ve had plenty of time to think over the past 60+ days. All of this…
Read MoreFlipping the Script: From Scarcity to Abundance
Today, do you choose to live in fear, anxiety, and worry? Or, are you able to flip that and lean into freedom, abundance, and worth? Some days I do better than others as I walk confidently in freedom and abundance, and I claim my worth. But some days, holy sh*t, I just can’t do it.…
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