Category: Say the Change

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There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. —William (the Alchemist?) Shakespeare

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Think the national debt is high? Try adding up your unmade decisions.

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When someone tells you it’s not personal but only business, do they believe their own rhetoric? Or merely hide behind an unreliable cliché?

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Aquinas argues deliberate will. Descartes thinks and, therefore, is. Celine belts My Heart Will Go On. But sometimes, the body just does stuff.

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Only by taking the clock out of the equation can we isolate who we are long enough to change.

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The thing to remember about the future is that it often comes at us first.

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If the unexamined life is not worth living, how, then, to examine it?

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Who owns the past, anyway? For that matter, who owns the future?

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If a point of view is worth 80 points of IQ, sharing it, however alien, can be ingenious.

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The games we play can end in a minute or go on forever. What happens when we lose track of which game is which?

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Remember that proverbial squirrel spinning its heart out inside the black box of anything that is mysteriously mobile? If Erwin Schrödinger was right, before looking under the lid, there’s an equal chance the mysterious power source is something else entirely.

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Beginning seven hundred years ago, young people were apprenticed to a master until they could come into their own as skilled workers and contributors. Today, we use terms like ‘intern’ and ‘trainee’ to describe an apprentice system that prepares its graduates for positions of choice and accountability.

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If, as my mother taught me, the road to hell is paved with good intentions, from what fictional materials must the journey not taken be made?

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When leading a meeting or presentation, it’s never a bad idea to consider that your busy audience might have been tempted to skip it. To recapture their attention, prepare your remarks as if listeners were in the middle of the biggest crisis of their week and only you possess the information they need to get through it.

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When pondering the future, it might sometimes seem easier just to let the present take us there, no questions asked. Fortunately, if awkward, even painful, the world has a way of begging certain questions. And when it does, maybe we should think twice before choosing not to answer them.