Ryan Meachen

PhD student studying how we self-actualise at work @WgtnBusGov |
Ngāti Te Wehi, Ngāti Huia |

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

You must understand the following: In order to master a field, you must love the subject and feel a profound connection to it. Your interest must transcend the field itself and border on the religious.

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

reading some Jung and then he hits you with this

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@JayWhiteNZ @AEW @TonyKhan
#AEWFullGear

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Nobody can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.

There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!

— Nietzsche, 1876

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth.

— Arthur Schopenhauer, 1891

[Essayful @Essayful]

“Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day.

Just set one day’s work in front of the last day’s work. That’s the way it comes out. And that’s the only way it does.”

— John Steinbeck, 1962

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@david_perell Robert Greene 🙏

[Hector Garcia-Author @DrHectorGarcia]

This just came out. Premise-occupational burnout is an ancient appeasement response to unwinnable conflicts at work, triggered by dominant leaders, group censure, and the isolation of remote work. Now to test empirically.

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

"It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing." ~Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@luke_smith23 What film is the top and fourth image from?

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@popeflamez @1xhris2eazy3 😤👑🇳🇿

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

Carl Sagan on the magic of the book:

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.

But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs.

Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic".

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

People “who believe in manifestation - the ability to cosmically attract success in life through positive self-talk, visualization, and symbolic actions (e.g., acting as if something is true) - are more likely to have experienced bankruptcy.” https://t.co/zkFtRXm6oV

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

"I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensively active and alive.

At such moments, there is a voice inside which speaks and says, 'This is the real me'."

~ William James

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@andre_spicer Very similar framework to the three stages of Marshall Ganz’s Public Leadership Narrative.

1) Story of Self - Who am I?
2) Story of Us - Who are we?
3) Story of Now - What is our vision and action?

https://t.co/k9IPHsZfm0

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

“Sickness consists essentially in wanting what is not good for us”
- Erich Fromm

[Scott Barry Kaufman ⛵ @sbkaufman]

😂

Credit: Asher Perlman

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@tomorrowstouris @wwffed @WellingtonUni Thanks Ian 💪

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

Professional Wrestling makes me so damned happy.

Once I get my PhD I’m going for the World Heavyweight Championship.

[Ryan Meachen @RyanMeachen]

@tomorrowstouris @wwffed @WellingtonUni Agreed. Agreed. Closer to Coronation Street than anything you’d see in the Olympics.

The future of a VUW alumni World Heavyweight Champion looks bleak.

You timed your shift overseas well!