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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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Category: Say the Change
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Got Time? (Get Rid of It!)
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Only by taking time out of the equation can we isolate who we are long enough to change.
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Got Self? Got Future? (Got Duck Food?)
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The thing to remember about the future is that it often comes at us first.
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What Uncritically Assimilated Worldviews Are You Dismantling?
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If the unexamined life is not worth living, how, then, to examine it?
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What Century Are You In?
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Who owns the past, anyway? For that matter, who owns the future?
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What Planet Are You From?
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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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What Game Are You Playing?
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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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When’s Your Train?
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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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When’s Your Time?
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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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When’s Your Tide?
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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’s Your Turn?
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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’s Your Truck?
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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.