Make Time for Serious Leisure
In case you aren’t aware, all leisure is not the same, nor is it only what most think it is. As Merriam-Webster so nicely puts it, “freedom provided by the cessation of activities.” In 1973, Robert Stebbins began his work that would eventually lead to a three-part typology of leisure: “casual leisure,” “project-based leisure” and “serious pursuits.” Serious pursuits is, itself, divided into subcategories: “devotee work” and “serious leisure.” It is serious leisure that just may make you a better leader.
According to Stebbins, serious leisure is Read more
Are you Empathetic?
Merriam Webster defines empathy as “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.” Say what?
WordNet, brought to us by Princeton University, puts it nice and sweetly, defining empathy as “understanding and entering into another’s feelings.” Well, according to a recent study from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, current college students Read more
