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Great Questions

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Great Questions: Writings of Judith Snow "I have lived on the margins & fought hard to become a participating citizen. I am a thinker & a dreamer. I have a reputation as a visionary. Let’s look at what fosters community capable of including people in all the diversity of their gifts & dreams." http://www.inclusion.com/booksJudithSnow.html Beautiful Questions John O’Donnohue used to talk about how you shaped a more beautiful mind and that it’s an actual discipline, no matter what circumstances you’re in. The way I interpreted it was the discipline of asking beautiful questions and that a beautiful question shapes a beautiful mind. The ability to ask beautiful questions, often, in very unbeautiful moments, is one of the great disciplines of a human life. And a beautiful question starts to shape your identity as much by asking it as it does by having it answered. You don’t have to do anything about it. You just have to keep asking, and before you know it, you will f...

Gifts

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  Judith Snow’s Gifts List by  Judith Snow  on July 1, 2010 Notes on the Gifts and Assets That People Who Are Vulnerable to Rejection Commonly Bring to Community by Judith Snow Hospitality making people feel happy listening Grounding slowing people down, reorienting people to time and place leading people to appreciate simple things causing people to appreciate their own abilities Skill Building pushing people to be better problem solvers causing people to try things they’ve never done before causing people to research things they never encountered before improving education improving technology modeling perseverance – being unstoppable Networking reaching out to people and breaking down barriers asking questions that everyone else is too shy to ask bringing people together who otherwise would never meet The Economy providing jobs to people who want supplemental income, like artists providing jobs to people who need to work odd schedules like homemakers providing jobs to ...