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monicacparker.bsky.social
Author, speaker, researcher, Wonder Woman. Studying if altered states of wonder make better leaders. Follow for wonderbased research & rocket fuel 🚀
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As someone who wrote a book about wonder & has been beating the drum about how uber rich bosses don’t care about their staff, reading this was a huge aha moment. How did I miss the connection?! The uber rich have lost their sense of wonder!! Hence low empathy! 🤯 Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

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I have a tendency to jump to the positive side of the teeter-totter way too quickly. I cringed when reading “Forget Happiness. Go Hard on Wonder." talking about "toxic positivity" - my husband nodded ... Learn more about #wonder 👉 https://buff.ly/3PpG8FE @monicacparker.bsky.social #thoughtechoes

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Best Warning of 2024

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Thank you @monicacparker.bsky.social for teaching me the many layers of wonder and why being open to wonder enriches our lives. #wonder

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This week’s Wonderbringer newsletter @monicacparker.bsky.social shared: döstädning. “We rid ourselves of life's detritus before passing away lessening the burden of those who clean up behind us.” I experienced the importance watching 16 mattresses leave my childhood home after Mom died.

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“…we start to see what our wonderbringers are and recognize that these aren't just hobbies or things we like to do, that they're in fact fundamental to the foundation of who we are as humans …” Full podcast on YouTube 👉 https://buff.ly/49GWXFj @monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes

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HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

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“I think that by looking at the negative through a wonder lens, it allows us to not resist and not deny the negative, but then also immediately recognize what positive exists.” Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/49o9Vb1 @monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes

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“… we start to see what our wonderbringers are and recognize that these aren't just hobbies or things we like to do, that they're in fact fundamental to the foundation of who we are as humans …” Full podcast 👉 https://buff.ly/3D1ucqQ @monicacparker.bsky.social #wonder #thoughtechoes

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This was such a lovely conversation Beth! Thanks for having me!

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

Interestingly, this is my masters thesis in a nutshell. When we think our act of sustainability makes no appreciable difference, in the face of a huge problem, we won’t act. No amount of data, knowledge or ability will change that. Applicable to other altruistic and community-focused behaviour too.🧐

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Blue sky indeed 🤩

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Did you know that the fab team at @siliconrepublic.bsky.social does a free daily newsletter called The Daily Brief to start your day off with all the info you need on tech, science and innovation. Highly recommend a subscribe if you're not on it:

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I feel like I’ve showed up late to a party & I’m slinking around to find the drinks table. Hello @bsky.app! I’m an 🇺🇸 who now lives in 🇬🇧 & 🇫🇷. I wrote a bestselling book on wonder. I’m studying if mushrooms 🍄 make execs better people. 🇲🇽 food is my love language. Hoping to find some lovely peeps here!

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