Category: Food for Thought
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Faster
The Universe is expanding faster. Moore’s Law says computer chip speeds and capabilities are getting faster—doubling every two years. I can vouch for that and more. In my experience, as the years go by, time is definitely going by faster. “Change is the essence and cadence of the universe,” as I remarked in a talk…
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Do You Need Experience to Write?
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. Henry David Thoreau No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience. John Locke
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Important Life Skills
/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC5nhc_eEH8 /linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH94x03Wl-M
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Learning
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.” Steve Jobs There’s a lot of truth in the old saying, “hindsight is 20/20”. Yes. That’s the way we learn. By making mistakes, looking…
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To Arrive at Who, What, Where You Want to Be
there’s no substitute for being at the heart of the action. And to get there, you have to leave here. There’s no substitute for your physical presence at ground zero of your dream. Charles Tutt
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Give Sorrow Words
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break William Shakespeare, Macbeth We can hardly bear to look. The shadow may carry the best of the life we have not lived. Go into the basement, the attic, the refuse bin. Find gold there. Find an…
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Has anyone else experienced this?
Occasionally, when relaxing and especially after a productive or stressful day—seems like there needs to be an “up” or a “down”, and after a couple of drinks, I wax wise and full of inspiration and write my heart out, spewing profundities and wise thoughts. I’m there right now. Did Hemingway really discover something when he…