Helping You

A newly found (and newly admired) fellow blogger really sparked my imagination today. His name is Rajesh Setty and his blog is Life Beyond Code.

In it, among many other useful thoughts and ideas, I came upon his exhortation that we should allВ  “Increase our capacity to help other people increase THEIR capacities.”В  In other words–to get better at helping others, well, get better (presumably better at whatever it is that they want to be better AT.)

Now I am not egotistical enough to think for one second that I can help everyone with everything. For instance if you want to get better at math, you are barking up the wrong blog, I’m a verbal girl if there ever was one.

I suppose the premise for this blog in toto was to hopefully gently point out some parts of modern life which are insane, and steer the reader to more, well, sane points of view/actions/thinking/tactics.

But I’d really like to know… what are the things that the readers around here would like to get better at? Do you want to know more about social media or blogging? Or how to not go insane when you’re worried about money? Or how to spot absolute insanity in aВ  prospective romantic partner?

Do tell. And I’ll do my best to help. I may not know the answers, but I am great at finding people who do!

It seems to me that if even a tenth of our culture became fixated on at least occasionally “increasing their capacity to help others increase their capacities” our country and world would be MUCH stronger, as a result.

What say you?

March 3, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Sane

One Response

  1. Paul - March 5, 2009

    How ummm… reactionary. The thought that we might just all be in this together. Whatever next?

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