This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte, Gertrude Bell, British Archaeologist, Explorer, Writer and Mountaineer and Steve Kayser, Head of PR, Cincom Systems.
Mondays at the Salon
Thor Muller, CTO and co-founder of the firm Get Satisfaction recently gave a talk, The Practice Planned Serendipity as part of the Unfinished Business series at Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU). Before we dive into what Muller said during his talk, first let’s look at what serendipity means. Horace Walpole, English art historian and politician born in the early 18th century coined the word serendipity. Walpole who loved to write letters was also known as man of letters. In a letter to Thomas Mann, he said that he coined the word serendipity from the Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip.
What’s the Meaning of Serendipity, and can you Plan it?
Booked on Tuesdays
To truly enjoy reading literary classics,you have to be transported back to a place and time that’s very different from our own. In Brontë’s time, single women had very few career choices. Among the available ones open to an educated single woman were governessing and writing. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë is a tale of the experiences of a governess. The story is somewhat autobiographical because Brontë was a governess and had a very bad experience with her first employer but fared better with the second.
Review – Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
Wisdom Wednesdays
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Gertrude Bell was truly a woman of wisdom. I learned about her when I interviewed Andrina Lever (See Part Two of her interview). A biography of Gertrude Bell, The Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach, profoundly impacted Lever, and Bell is one of the five people that she listed as wanting to meet. Gertrude Bell was a woman ahead of her time and someone we can learn a tremendous deal from.
Women in Wisdom – Gertrude Bell, British Archaeologist, Explorer, Writer and Mountaineer
Perspective Thursdays and Workshop Fridays
This week we featured entrepreneur Steve Kayser. Kayser shared many nuggets of wisdom with us. He emphasized the importance of reading, and he reads three to five books each week. The books he reads often act as mentors to him. Here are Part One and Part Two of Steve Kayser’s interview.
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