12. So how does it feel to be autistic when you are
overstimulated? It feels like: 20 cologne smells (all
people around you are wearing different things, etc.
Autistics smell all of it), like hundreds of kids
running around you asking you questions in
different languages, like you’re sitting in a chair that
is missing one leg and trying to balance it while all
that is going on, and lights flickering…too much,
hence why autistics have Meltdowns.
“
Kristina DesJardins
Author, Autist
43. COMMUNICATION
KEY2CELEBRATE DIFFERENTLY
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“Employee Loyalty comes from the
daily work itself, a sense of community
accepting of individuality, and constant
reminders that what employees do
matters… money is a distant fourth.”
57. Spoken language is a blue sea.
Everyone else is swimming,
diving and frolicking freely,
while I'm alone, stuck in a tiny
boat, swayed from side to side.
“
Naoki Higashida
Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8
71. Tony Schwartz
New York Times, 11/28/15
According to one recent survey [by Adobe], the average white-
collar worker spends about six hours a day on email. That
doesn’t count time online spent shopping, searching or keeping
up with social media.
The brain’s craving for novelty, constant stimulation and
immediate gratification creates something called a
“compulsion loop.” Like lab rats and drug addicts, we need
more and more to get the same effect.
Endless access to new information also easily overloads our
working memory. When we reach cognitive overload, our ability
to transfer learning to long-term memory significantly
deteriorates. It’s as if our brain has become a full cup of water
and anything more poured into it starts to spill out.
“
72. We are the
most distracted
generation in
the history of
the Earth.
73. There's no question whatsoever that
multitasking, especially among those who do it
the most, is at the very least ineffective and at
the worst, harmful.
Basically, they are worse at most of the kinds
of thinking not only required for multitasking
but what we generally think of as involving
deep thought.
“
Dr. Clifford Nass
Stanford University
74. I believe that genius in the 21st
century will be attributed to people
who are able to unplug from the
constant state of reactionary
workflow ... and allow their minds to
solve the great challenges of our era.
“
Scott Belsky
CEO, Behance
79. Human relationships are rich and they’re
messy and they’re demanding. And we
clean them up with technology.
And when we do, one of the things that
can happen is that we sacrifice
conversation for mere connection.
We short-change ourselves. And over
time, we seem to forget this, or we seem
to stop caring.
“
Sherry Turkle
Author, Professor - TED, February 2012
101. For it to be effective, curiosity has to be
harnessed to at least two other key traits.
First, the ability to pay attention
to the answers to your questions—
you have to actually absorb whatever it
is you’re being curious about. Second
is the ability to act.
“
Brian Grazer
A Curious Mind
102. Life isn’t about finding the answers.
It’s about asking the questions.
“
Brian Grazer
A Curious Mind
105. For too long, we've assumed that there
is a single template for human nature,
which is why we diagnose most
deviations as disorders. But the reality is
that there are many different kinds of
minds. And that's a very good thing.
“
Jonah Lehrer
Wall Street Journal, 3/31/12
106.
107.
108. I’ve learned that every human being, with or
without disabilities, needs to strive to do their
best, and by striving for happiness you will arrive
at happiness. For us, you see, having autism is
normal— so we can’t know for sure what your
“normal” is even like. But so long as we can
learn to love ourselves, I’m not sure how much it
matters whether we’re normal or autistic.
“
Naoki Higashida
The Reason I Jump
109. We all have special needs.
1. Membership
2. Mastery
3. Meaning
4. Money
Rosabeth Moss Kanter