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What do your personal Wellbeing and a Spaceship have in common?

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LET'S BE FWENDS ISSUE #58:

WHAT DO YOUR PERSONAL WELLBEING AND A SPACESHIP HAVE IN COMMON?
“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”
~ Marcus Aurelius


Establish some Personal Boundaries with a little Help from an English Humorist
Artwork by Adam J. Kurtz
In a recent issue of this humble journal, I said:

"Because people aren’t difficult, or useless, or hard to work with. They are just different, but every bit as important as you are, and everyone else.”

I said this in the context of people suffering from a mental illness, but I extended it to everyone on purpose.

So people asked my if that meant that you should tolerate all kinds of shortcomings in a working environment.

My answer to that is: No. Of course not. Tolerating other people’s shortcomings without limit will lead to burnout, and you cannot have that.
But luckily, the late english humorist Douglas Adams has just the right tool for establishing some boundaries between you and your co-workers:
The SEP-Shield.

I’ve written a short piece about how the SEP-shield can help you establish firm boundaries between you and the failings of others.


Dance like a Dog’s playing the Piano
You know that saying: “Dance like nobody’s watching”? I say, dance like a dog’s playing the piano!


Playing in the Street

San Fermin stole my heart the second I’ve seen a video of them on YouTube. Check out this all-time favorite of mine and you'll know why.


Whoa. Physics. So cool.

What happens when a really really strong magnet and a swarm of really really small but also quite strong magnets meet?

Something that’s hard to describe with words.
We are all magnets, attracting all the good and the bad. That's quite alright, as long as we have the tools to cope with it all. So, high five to magnets! 🧲
(That's supposed to be a magnet emoji, but not everyone will see it. High five to Unicode standards!)
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