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Attended The Yearly Bento

RSVPed Attending The Yearly Bento (2020/2021) – The Bento Society

A new annual tradition: the yearly Bento. A deep experience where we unpack the year that past and plan the year to come.

Reflecting on 2020, looking ahead to 2021:

  • What happened in 2020, month by month?
  • What themes or patterns stand out?
  • What did you learn in 2020?
  • Who were the key people in your life in 2020?
  • Picture that it’s a year in the future and everything has gone your way, even better than you could have imagined. What does that look like?
  • What needs to be true about you to make that future come true?
  • What needs to be true about the people in your life for that to happen?

After all this reflection, we had to explain the conclusions we drew to two strangers and talk about each of us for ten minutes. It was a really helpful part of the exercise. Then that got translated into the Bento format, which I’m still not 100% sure I understand.

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Success Hides Problems

Quoted Success Hides Problems (alifeofproductivity.com)
  • Success draws our attention away from what’s going wrong and what needs to be fixed.
  • Success makes us overconfident and convinces us that we don’t need to improve.
  • Success provides a false comfort that absolutely nothing is going wrong—or that, if things are going wrong, they must not matter much.
  • Success provides less time to fix problems, because we’re so busy maintaining what’s going well.
  • Success distracts from the side effects of success, like spending less time with our family and friends, burning out, or having less free time because we’re busy focusing on all that’s going well.

— Chris Bailey