To Go Fast, Go Alone. To Go Far, Go Together
Trust The Science
“Trust The Science” Really Means –> Listen To Doctors & Scientists Pushed By Politicians, And Ignore The Doctors & Scientists That Disagree
Failed More Times
There is SO much truth in this!
I was encouraging someone over the phone yesterday and I related the story of how many years ago a speaker making the point that you cannot let lack of confidence stop you from trying something new.
He asked us to recall when we were first learning to ride a bike and we told the person teaching us not to let go of the seat until we were ready.
He said you cannot have confidence until you aquire some competence and that only comes from doing.
So the sequence is as follows:
First you have to do. No competence. No confidence. Just the courage to do.
With repeated doing, failing, learning, changing your doing to improve it, you gain competence.
And as a result of gaining comptence to are now confident.
Look over any skill you have and I think you will see the truth in this.
The Problem With The World
I don’t fully agree with this.
While I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer I don’t feel unintelligent.
I have a great deal of certainty on what I know and I also am humble enough to admit when I have no data on something.
I try to speak my truth without being offensive but have no qualms about sharing true data to people who have false data on which they are operating. Most of them are wedded more to their opinion than they are truth so it often does little good but occasionally I make headway. Those times are the pay for the effort.
I don’t take a loss where I don’t succeed.
The better off is a person the easier they are to help and the greater the impact from helping them.
So I see a big part of my job is to help the able become more able.
If you would like to be more able, get in touch with me!
Great Conspiracy Theorists Number 8
Lockdown Questions
I fully endorse the strategy of allowing the vulnerable to protect themselves and the able to be free to live their lives without suppression.
Create!
(Tom: Golly gee gosh I love this advice! It is so good I am sharing it again. If you get a fraction as much from it as I got your day will be immeasurably enhanced.
Take joy in some creation today!)
The point is not to Win, but to do, to experience, to become.
With thanks to Vera Risdon and Kurt Vonnegut.
In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write a famous author and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut was the only one to respond – and his response is magnificent:
“Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset years. I don’t make public appearances any more because I now resemble nothing so much as an iguana.
What I had to say to you, moreover, would not take long, to wit: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms. Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed potatoes. Pretend you’re Count Dracula.
Here’s an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood will flunk you if you don’t do it: Write a six line poem, about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net. Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody, not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms. Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
God bless you all!
Kurt Vonnegut”
Good Advice From Theodore Roosevelt
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
Until When Will You Wear A Mask?
On Art
Magic is always there. Sometimes it just takes an artist to find it and show the rest of us where to look.― Amy Neftzger