28-OVIE

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The superior man is on his guard against what is not yet in sight and on the alert for what is not yet within hearing.

The I Ching or Book of Changes

The inferior man’s wickedness is visited upon himself. His house is split apart. A law of nature is at work here.

The I Ching or Book of Changes

27-IPOS

Reverence

Steve Jobs ability to foresee how the iPod could revolutionize the industry was largely driven by his early life experiences with the initial transportable music source that did so, the transistor radio.

DECINZO – September 12-18, 2007 METRO SILICON VALLEY

By traditional measures, the success of the iPod was one of the most unpredictable in retail product history.”

Three Moves Ahead – Bob Rice

BTW, just happened to come across a similar cartoon illustrating a mass of white men adorating an icon. Shows there’s a choice of who/what to worship.

God forgive ’em

Imagine your dream position, then work backwards.

26-TWIN

Overlapping

People at the same place in different minutes. How crowded it would look if the photos captured entire days, or weeks!

Neurolinguistic Programming Tool: Picture the worst of a situation up close and all encompassing. In the distant background visualize the best possibility and make it grow in size and come closer until it replaces the worst image.

Neurolinguistic Programming

25-DENT

A man can’t cross a hundred thousand light years, mostly in other people’s baggage compartments, without beginning to fray a little, and Arthur had frayed a lot.

Hitchhiker’s Guide by Douglas Adams

24-LOFT

Sensibility

Did we awake from the stupor that can consume our lives — lost amidst bits & bytes, screens & feeds — and find ourselves, as G.K. Chesterton once wrote, “in a street full of splendid strangers?”

Did we allow the years to teach us their subtle lessons?

The idea is not that we will win in our own lifetimes and that’s the measure of us, but that we will die trying.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

Stopping puts some space in your long haul. Rest is a way of being. Pacing is recalibrated care. ~Pato Hebert

  • STOP
    • REST
      • PACE

22-GAGE

Rejection

Last night G stepped into a conversation between R and M. The problem that R was expressing to M was exactly the same problem G was experiencing.

It seemed R and G might commiserate to find the right solution for both of them. Any answers found would be to their mutual benefit.

But, because, M and R were on one team and G was on a distinctly different team, G was outside of R & M’s coupling and so, easy to dismiss.

21-HEEL

Innovation

The wheel was discovered around 5000 years ago.

During the age of wagons & chariots, it may have never occurred to anyone that putting two wheels in line with each other would be a practical thing.


bike

But finally in 1817 the bicycle was invented, and that idea led to the motorcycle, and doing backflips:


What invention of the past could use a new twist today?