Interesting Things

Considering Business / Personal change and growth. Photos credited where applicable (w/out permission, if desired will remove)

[convivialdave]

Having access to information by owning a smart phone doesn't you wise.

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Seats of power should belong only to those with both the best ideas and processes meant to make sure those ideas come to fruition.

Whether civic, religious, or in business, no contest should be judged on any ability other than how to solve problems.

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Financial Wealth is a signal, not ultimate truth.

The reason why people get wealthy is that the market (whichever one he or she is in) is simply rewarding the systems and behaviors in that market necessary to succeed. Whether salesman, surgeon, or Shylock, the conditions of that market, over time, signal what is valuable. Wealthy people see those signals better. What wealth does not signify, however, is humanity. To truly see humanity, your motive must be the betterment of humanity itself. For that, there is no financial profit market. Don't expect to become financially wealthy simply because you care about people.

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There is no more dangerous way of thinking than fundamentalism

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Religion is exhaustive to the human spirit; it asks us to deny the near and now for the afterlife, all without guarantee. Be good in the here and now. For this you need no catechism, dogma or belief, other than the notion that you are bettering the world for its own sake.

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Abhor all things that deny life, the life of the here and the now, the energy that allows us all to affirm our world, the world of phenomena.

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Be drawn only to groups based on what you hope to achieve, not simply as a matter of belief.

The minute you associate yourself based merely on belief or inherit characteristics, you're cooked.

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There is no reason for you to carry with you the heuristic that guarantees that someone who shares your external characteristics shares your internal values.

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"Innocent inmates, convicted to live..."

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The bravest thing you can do is to choose and act without guarantee...

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Today's world shows there is an economic gravity to outrageousness. The seeking of audiences on that basis is at the heart of the blight that infects modern culture.

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The profit motive is why each and every one of us gets out of bed in the morning. It is up to you what type of profit you seek.

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Pain comes from the belief that there was something to lose. When you stop striving, all the world belongs to you.

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Cling not to the safety you know.

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Carry with you only those values that help you build the life you want to build.

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The Will to Power is about permanent personal expansion and maximization, not interpersonal domination.