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Tag Archives: Musings
Excellent Advice from the sage: Seth Godin
Advice: Should we wait to act? ‘The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second-best time is today.”
MAGA Like Me
Undercover journalist goes deep undercover in Trump country and asks questions on spy camera. Based on famous “Black Like Me” undercover journalism, the idea is to attempt to understand the feelings and motivations of those people who identify as ardent Trump supporters. If you are not familiar with “Black Like Me”, the groundbreaking book and …
“customer behaviour science”
The genius of modern day guilt based marketing and basis of “customer behaviour science”. This from Seth Godin: “ Comfort and convenience For the last thirty years, the easiest shortcut has been convenience. If a marketer or a politician or an institution wants to gain acceptance, make it convenient. Tim Wu has pointed out that …
One of the Root Virtues – Courage
“Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” — Maya Angelou
Truth
“Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it. Ignorance may deride it. Malice may distort it. But there it is.” – Winston Churchill
Love What You Do
Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello calls you to find what grips your soul: “You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it …
Inspiration from another source… look for it everywhere!
Shaped by optimists An idea that is lost when we’re walking around in a cynical state of mind is that the many wonderful things in the world around us were all shaped by optimists who refused to let the world around them get them down. Outside of the incredible gifts we’ve gotten from nature, it …
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R U a Child of the Universe? ;-)
“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. …
Learn
“To Learn and not to DO is not to Learn”