Living in an urban area I, like many, exercise in the park.  I was doing so before the pandemic started and I have continued.  My local park is big and beautiful and is seeing a higher level of use now that the gyms are closed.  It feels safe and reasonable except for one thing: the runners who brush past on the paved trails.  They are too close; ( Read more... )

I have often said "it's a free will universe" as a basis for extolling choice as a power, whether conscious or unconscious, for determining your experience. To "choice" I always connect the concept of responsibility. Responsibility always follows immediately upon choice. Those who tremble before this power of choice may even habitually refuse to ( Read more... )

Is there anything more dangerous
than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods
who don't know what they want?
--Harari in Sapiens, the very last sentence

Here are the 5 skills that set serial entrepreneurs apart from everyone else.  Based on these one can predict with 90% accuracy who will become a serial entrepreneur:

1) Persuasion (get others to say yes)

2) Leadership (get others do do stuff)

3) Personal accountability (takes charge and takes responsibility)

4) Goal orientation (works toward ( Read more... )

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I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
--Robert A. Heinlein


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notes from November OFJ lecture by Jacqueline J West, PhD
The Shadows and Gifts of American Narcissism
Friday 11/12/10 organized via www.ofj.org
also some notes on Narcissism taken from a variety of sources
( tidbits feed ideas about American apathy )

This canine is impressively habituated to whitewater river running. I've had one river dawg myself, and I've run a few rivers with other people's river dawgs, but I've never seen anything quite like this. The dog swims downstream through some pretty good whitewater, and when it comes to a shallow drop it lands on the rocks that form the drop, ( Read more... )

Resiliency is a trait all leaders share ( Read more... )

( wonderful article on a choice that could change everything )