Brain droppings

Philosophical nuggets, personal lessons, epiphanies, brainf(arts), rants and occasional other stuff picked up on the road

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Parrhesia is an ancient Greek word meaning "boldness or freedom of speech". Specifically, it translates to "fearless speech" or "speaking truth to power"

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I had something to give, my light - Dot

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Strategy is outdated the moment it is put out into the world. - Sheng Huang (Tao Te Ching #1 commentary)

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Speed is subservient to direction - be the tortoise, not the hare. - Rich Roll

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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. - not Rumi's original, but I like it more

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A feeling isn't necessarily true just because it is intense. Ask what part of you is answering when thoughts and feelings arise

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the Zeigarnik effect postulates that people remember unfinished or interrupted tasks better than completed tasks

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1. Strategy and planning are not the same thing. Strategy involves making integrative choices that position you on a playing field of your choice in a way that you win.

2. A great strategy must have a coherent theory, be doable, and be translatable into actions.

3. Planning does not require coherence, but it is comfortable because it involves the resources you can control.

4. Strategy requires putting yourself out and specifying an outcome that involves customers wanting your product or service enough that they will buy enough of it to make the profitability that you'd like to make.

5. You do not control the customers, which makes strategy a trickier task.

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Don't let your learning lead to knowledge, let your learning lead to action - Jim Rohn

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Never take a job where you are programmed to fail

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Ita not "if I take care of you, you take care of me". It's "I'll take care of me, for you . If you take care of you for me" - Jim Rohn

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Confidence comes from action. Don't fake it to make it. Act and become it. - MIT Monk

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"The truly successful person is the one who gets up everyday and does exactly what he wants to do." Bob Dylan

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You can receive nothing new until you first empty yourself

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To pause is to remember that you are not required to earn your place in the world.

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In his book The Burnout Society, Han writes:

“Today, everyone is an entrepreneur of themselves. People are auto-exploiters. They are simultaneously master and slave.”

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The rush to perform, to accomplish, to prove, often stems not from wisdom, but from a wound. The fear of not being enough.