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The quality of your life depends directly on the quality of the questions you ask.
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Why?
Oh, Great.”Why?” conjures up memories of raising your toddler. The incessant questions.I tried very hard to answer every one as honestly as I could, without betraying any frustration that I might have been feeling as I was rushing to get out the door to work, or prepare supper, or whatever automatically necessary task was in […]
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Forget the Possible. Dominate the art of the Impossible.
What is The Possible?Hoo boy, heavy one. I suppose everybody’s gotta think about something heavy sometime. Me? I think I’ll have another coffee.Start over.What is Possible?Bumped into an old Welsh friend a year ago. We got chatting about the current state of British politics. Politics is the Art of The Possible, he told me. I wonder if […]
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What do I want?
What do I want? What a question. How dare you!My two grandfathers were a study in simultaneous contrast and similarity.Both were quiet, introverted men. Happy to sit in the background and watch the world go by. Happy to let their wives do the talking. (My grandmothers needed little urging in this regard.) Risk-averse, play-it-safe, obey-the-rules.Yet […]
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How do we measure wisdom?
How do you know if you’re wiser that the next dude?How do you know you’re wise enough? or not? . . . . . . . . if you can’t measure wisdom?Some 4–5 years ago, I got curious about this wisdom thing. I started reading one chapter of the book of Solomon’s Proverbs per day. The date […]
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Is what you’re doing crazy enough?
My old uncle was a phenomenally successful real estate developer and architect.Entirely self-taught. I think he did a few university-level courses, but just enough to learn what he needed to know, then he went back to whatever project he was working on.Due to some unfortunate family politics, I didn’t get to mix it up with […]
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Do you know how to have a conversation?
How you answer that question depends entirely on your purpose in the conversation. The purpose of a LOT of conversations I eavesdrop on . . . is emotional reassurance. Tell me I’m OK. Somebody PLE-E-E-EASE tell me I’m OK. I feel frantic. I can’t cope with life if I’m all alone. Quiet desperation. (Thanks, Mr Thoreau.) The conversation makes […]
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Self-imposed isolation: Prison or Freedom?
There are two ways to look at a period of isolation from other people. (Be it self-imposed or otherwise.) You can look at it as a hardship. Torture. Something to be endured. You can’t wait to see the end of it. OR . . . . . You can it as an opportunity for reflection. And for reinvention. A chance […]
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How YOU could become my guru
(This isn’t actually an invitation to become my new guru . . . . . Then again . . . . maybe it is . . . . . ) Unless you’re not totally human . . . . . . . . . and even then . . . . . (I’d want to check […]
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The power of a Socrates on the team
The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates (in Plato’s Apology). Doncha just love mantras? I came up with my own a few years back: The quality of your life depends directly on the quality of the questions you ask.
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