60 Quotes on addiction and reclaiming the balance between pleasure and pain (by Anna Lembke)

1. The more dopamine in the brain's reward pathway, the more addictive the experience. (p. 2)
2. Addiction broadly defined is the continued and compulsive consumption of a substance or behavior (gambling, gaming, sex) despite its harm to self and/or others. (p. 16)
3. One of the biggest risk factors for getting addicted to any drug is easy access to that drug. When it's easier to get a drug, we are more likely to try it. In trying it, we are more likely to get addicted to it. (p. 18)
4. Our dopamine economy, or what historian David Courtwright has called “limbic capitalism,” is driving this change, aided by transformational technology that has increased not just access, but also drug numbers, variety, and potency. (p. 20)
5. The world now offers a full complement of digital drugs that didn't exist before, or if they did exist, they now exist on digital platforms that have exponentially increased their potency and availability. These include online pornography, gambling, and video games, to name a few. (p. 23)
6. The relentless pursuit of pleasure (and avoidance of pain) leads to pain. (p. 234)
7. We've lost the ability to tolerate even minor forms of discomfort. We are constantly seeking to distract ourselves from the present moment, to be entertained. (p. 40)

100 tweets on leading a team with “radical candor”

What follows are 100 insights and quotations gathered while reading Radical Candor by Kim Scott. They contain experiential lessons on leading teams with clarity, trust, and care.

1. “Radical candor” is what happens when you put “care personally” and “challenge directly” together. Radical candor builds trust and opens the door for the kind of communication that helps you achieve the results you're aiming for. (9)
2. The ultimate goal of Radical Candor is to achieve results collaboratively that you could never achieve individually. (75)
3. Ultimately, bosses are responsible for results. They achieve these results not by doing all the work themselves, but by guiding the people on their teams (6).
4. If you lead a big organization, you can't have a relationship with everyone, but you can really get to know the people who report directly to you. These relationships are core to your job. (7)
5. To have a good relationship, you have to be your whole self and care about each person who works for you as a human being. It's not business; it is personal and deeply personal. I call this dimension “care personally”. (9)
6. Your ability to build trusting human connections with the people who report directly to you will determine the quality of everything that follows. (8)

60 tweets about planning and managing public relations campaigns (by Anne Gregory and Mandy Pearse)

What follows are sixty brief highlights from the book Planning and managing public relations campaigns. A strategic approach (Anne Gregory, Mandy Pearse:  Kogan Page, 6th ed., 394 pp.)

1. The notion of organizational agility and agile planning has emerged in the twenty-first century as a turn away from the command-and-control structures prevalent in earlier generations (6).
2. Strategic planning does not mean that everything can be controlled. That is never possible. But it does take the planner through a process that helps them define the contribution they can make, how they should go about their work, and how they can measure whether they have been successful (7).
3. Intangibles, which include reputation, account for more than 90 per cent of the value of commercial organizations (9).
4. In today's fast-moving world, public relations has a most vital role to play in not only serving but also shaping organizations (15).
5. There is a link between the seniority of the public relations practitioner and the influence they have. If senior public relations managers are part of the “dominant coalition” of company decision-makers, then public relations is likely to serve a key strategic role (10).
6. Most public relations activities require a mixture of technician and manager roles, and even at the most senior levels, very few are entirely removed from the implementation role (15).

50 selected quotes by Edgar and Peter Schein on relationships, change, and humble leadership

1. Leadership is always a relationship, and truly successful leadership thrives in a substrate of high openness and high trust /Intro
2. Humble leadership nurtures relationships that are characterized by openness and trust, and it succeeds when these relationships ensure optimal exchange of information and ideas, from which new and better solutions can be set in motion /Intro
3. We must re-frame the personal challenge of improving one's leadership skills, turning it into a collective challenge of helping to improve our group's performance /Intro
4. Good management, stewardship, and governance never cease to be needed, yet humble leadership, in seeking something new and better, operates at the horizon beyond operational efficiency and towards change and innovation /5
5. Leaders can miss vital process information by paying too much attention to technical fixes rather than looking and listening for social context signals that are outside of the scope of the technical fix /6 

25 tweets de Romano Guardini sobre “Aceptarse a uno mismo”

1. El verdadero pensador debe aprender a penetrar la apariencia de lo obvio y sumergirse hasta las últimas profundidades (4)
2. El acto de ser uno mismo se convierte, en su raíz, en una forma de ascetismo: debo renunciar al deseo de ser algo distinto a ser lo que soy (10)
3. En la raíz de todo está el acto de aceptarme a mí mismo: aceptar tener las cualidades que tengo, aceptar estar dentro de los límites que se me imponen (12)
4. La fe significa que entiendo mi finitud desde la instancia más alta (13)
5. La piedad, a su vez, significa recibirse una y otra vez desde esa voluntad de Dios (15)
6. Ese es el alfa y el omega de toda sabiduría: el rechazo de la arrogancia, la fidelidad a lo real, la limpieza y la decisión de ser uno mismo y, por tanto, la raíz del carácter (15)

45 tweet sulla trasmissione della fede e delle Sacre Scritture (Fabio Rosini)

1. Il contenuto, in un'educazione alla fede, è solo una parte dell'arte educativa (13) 
2. Avere le Sacre Scritture e non avere una modalità per aprire la mente alla loro intelligenza (Lc 24,45) è lasciare un voto tragico nella consegna della fede alle nuove generazioni. Le Scritture, senza Traditio, sono archeologia, collezionismo, lettera morta (14)
3. I libri sono importanti, sia chiaro, ma la realtà [di Cristo] è più importante dei libri (28)
4. Quando un giovane sostiene di accettare l'indissolubilità matrimoniale, per restare nell'esempio del sacramento del matrimonio, come possiamo essere certi della continuità del suo pensiero, se è nato in una società che dissolve tutto, che non ha niente che non possa essere modificato da Photoshop? (35) 
5. Nell'atto di consegnare il deposito della fede e i contenuti della Parola di Dio, il peso, lo spessore e la rilevanza dell’autorità sono decisivi (37)
6. Il metodo scientifico è un'acquisizione fondamentale, ma affermare che la conoscenza scientifica è la conoscenza definitiva è un fatto grave (43) 

El lenguaje preciso y democrático en 20 tuits de Gianrico Carofiglio

1. Las sociedades en las que prevalecen las aserciones vacías de significado gozan de poca salud (9)
2. Dar el nombre correcto a las cosas puede ser un gesto revolucionario (11)
3. Se pueden escribir cosas realistas diciendo falsedades, como sucede de manera sistemática en la narrativa deficiente. Por otro lado, se pueden escribir relatos carentes de dimensión realista o de verosimilitud que digan verdades profundas sobre la condición humana (16)
4. Si se usa como puente entre la experiencia perceptiva, la emoción, el pensamiento y el lenguaje, la metáfora es quizás el mecanismo más potente de elaboración y enriquecimiento cognitivo de que disponemos (24)
5. Cuando las palabras pierden el vínculo con sus propios significados, se reduce peligrosamente la posibilidad de controlar a quien ejerce el poder (48)
6. Solo palabras y metáforas que respeten los conceptos, las cosas, los hechos pueden respetar la verdad y ser instrumentos de progreso (49)

20 tweet sul linguaggio preciso e democratico (“Con parole precise”, Gianrico Carofiglio)

1. Le società nelle quali prevalgono le asserzioni vuote di significato sono in cattiva salute (9)
2. Dare il nome giusto alle cose può essere un gesto rivoluzionario (11)
3. Si possono scrivere cose realistiche dicendo falsità, come accade in maniera sistematica nella narrativa scadente. D'altro canto, si possono scrivere racconti privi di qualsiasi dimensione realistica o di verosimiglianza che dicano verità profonde sulla condizione umana (16)
4. Se usata come ponte tra esperienza percettiva, emozione, pensiero e linguaggio, la metafora è forse il più potente meccanismo di elaborazione e di arricchimento cognitivo di cui disponiamo (24)