There is experience.
And there are experiences.
One happens.
The other we create.
Archive for November, 2010
Monday, November 29th, 2010
There Is Experience
- Hi David,
My thoughts from far-away Belgium on this philosophical post...
The way I see it, experience doesn't just "happen"... it is also created. It is created every day, by everyone of us, with everything we do. Every day of your life is filled with choices. You create experiences by the choices you make. And your experience grows ...Read more >
- the bonds....think on that folks... Read more >
- I am going to bet that your friend Max had parents, grandparents and perhaps even greatgrandparents who talked him about what life brings to us--who loved him and taught him to love. The bond between Max and his brother is an example of that as well. If we are fortunate to have those bonds then we without knowing it we ...Read more >
Monday, November 22nd, 2010
Do you buy a lottery ticket?
Do you buy a lottery ticket?
Play poker?
Ignore the red light at the corner?
Eat in the company cafeteria?
- Machiavelli agreed with that in The Prince, saying that life is determined half by fortune and half by virtue. Robert Rubin, who was considered the best Secretary of the treasury since Hamilton, strongly believed that success in decision making came from weighing probabilities in everything. Quantum Mechanics also provides some evidence of this, since science learned that at the smallest ...
- My perspective is that we should get away from seperating ourselves from the world in our paradigm. When you do this you see that luck is simply where preperation meets oportunity as the saying goes.
- The consensus seems to be that you still have to buy the ticket!
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Honor
Honor.
Integrity.
Respect.
Personal Courage.
To anyone who has seen the movie The Social Network (I highly recommend it), these moralistic values might seem outdated ideals of an old-fashioned past – not realistic or grounded in today’s ever-changing, highly networked, open, get-it-done-now world of action, movement and 24/7 connection.
- This post strikes a chord for me. My family is old, large, blue collar. We’re truckers by history (I’m the only one of the 6 brothers who wasn’t) and the idea of honor is something our family has tried to live by, something I try and instill in my sons, my employees. It’s not an easy task maintaining it in ...
- (Sanskrit: "Song of God") One of the greatest of the Hindu scriptures, constituting part of the Mahabharata. It is written in the form of a dialogue between the warrior Prince Arjuna and the charioteer Krishna, an incarnation of Vishnu. It was probably composed in the 1st or 2nd century AD, later than much of the epic. Concerned over the suffering ...
- Honor. Integrity. Respect. Personal Courage. Loyalty. Selfless Service. Duty. If most people followed these 7 morals, the world might be a better place. People would take responsibility and things would get done more quickly and efficiently with care and thoughtfulness. Unfortunately, too many people are not held accountable for their actions in the workplace or at home. Perhaps if they were, ...
