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The Edit: The Beauty of Solitude
The Edit

The Edit: The Beauty of Solitude

Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.

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11th Oct 2024

Leadership that leads through, recovering from burnout and more in #TheEdit.

  • What is privacy for? We often want to keep some information to ourselves. But information itself may be the problem – New Yorker
  • Shift your leadership from “power over” to “leading through”. The soul, heart and mind of leadership: care, thrive and mobilise – Harvard Business Review
  • How to recover from burnout. The answer is not to ‘just work harder.’ Try these steps instead – Psyche
  • The beauty of being alone. There’s chronic loneliness, and there’s solitude. One is a dangerous epidemic. The other is a skill we must nurture – TIME Magazine
  • How the Impressionists became the world’s favourite painters, and the most misunderstood. Exactly 150 years ago, Monet, Degas, Renoir and their pals spurred an artistic revolution. Can we still see the defiance behind the beauty? – The New York Times
  • The type of love that makes people happiest. When it comes to lasting romance, passion has nothing on friendship – The Atlantic
  • My Life on Purpose: Angela F. Williams. We talk to Angela F. Williams, President and CEO of United Way Worldwide, about her life on purpose – The Beautiful Truth

“When you carve out delicious moments for just you, you get to be the sole architect of your experience.”

Meghan Keane