Emergence

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If a person is motivated and happy at the end of the workday, it’s a good bet that he or she made some progress.

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“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.” L. P. Jacks

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Writing & photography. Two seemingly static forms that could not be more alive. With all the noise, these forms drive social media.

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It's not the success or failure of this particular device that matters, it's that Google went in and gave us all a chance to look into the future, to talk about what that might feel like. Glass pushed us to ask, what boundaries of connection are we willing to accept? We still don't know. It's also permission to come back and do it better. What we learn from failure fuels further innovation. Persistence as key as invention. Google continues to impress. http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/15/as-developers-depart-google-glass-is-ready-to-become-this-eras-segway/

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Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. - Howard Thurman

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This here

“I thought how funny it was that everybody else was always wrong, but I was never wrong about anything, and it occurred to me: That can’t possibly be right.” http://www.fastcompany.com/3035671/how-i-get-it-done/a-new-technique-for-creating-more-aha-moments-the-surprise-journal 

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Students show the lowest levels of enjoyment during learning under the conditions in which they learn the most, and the feeling of confusion turns out to be the best predictor of learning. -- Annie Murphy Paul 

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A Poem for India

To understand your creative practice, you must examine it. What questions will you ask? What is your art? To be free in the minds of others, you will go first. The mind will open when you are still.  Be patient with yourself, waiting not in frustration  but waiting until you find the pleasure in waiting. Practice this. Throw away your thoughts. Throw them away again. This is the beginning. Let it visit you where you are, do not go find it.  Your breath is the wind now.  Notice it and nothing else. Do not think, what words are in this wind? You will hear many things but it will sound only like water. Open your eyes and look around now. The detail of everything is blinding. Be still more. You may find a scent now, you may notice footsteps or a knowing glance from a stranger. This is the beginning.  Let it stay with you. Your heart will race, be still and let it, it is filling you. Notice the moment you are in.  This very moment, it is there for you to notice. Let gratitude wash over you. This moment will never come again and still it will be forever. Live your gratitude in service. Welcome all as one. Sit still and the world will open all at once. You are free.  This is the beginning. What is this pen but a vehicle of the hand and the hand of the mind? When your words are no better than a dollar to make sense of the world put your money away and be still. 

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Innovation is as much pattern recognition as it is original ideas.

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Failure is entirely a matter of attitude.

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Sometimes the best question is why are we asking that?

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In a world of vast interconnection, extensibility provides scale. Teaching is your knowledge API.

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You never really arrive. You are always becoming. You are newer, not older. Your attitude is the antidote. This is emergence. 

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Zoom all the way out. Let go of everything for a moment. There is nothing more important than laughing together. This is the space of memories.

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Space is personal. Some space shouldn't be filled. Let it be empty. Leaving space alone lets you continue to think about what to do with it.

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The best leaders don't make you feel like they're leading, they make you feel like you're learning.

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Great ideas have a simple story. You can't just have a great idea. You have to tell its story - a simple story. It's a story others can tell themselves almost immediately in their own words. That simple.