Hillary's past
Hillary's fans always tout her experience but don't welcome any scrutiny of her record.
-- Doug Henwood.
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January 25, 2016
January 20, 2016
Embarrassed by your first version ?
"If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."
-- LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman
January 18, 2016
Pitched ?
"I've never swung at a ball while it's still in the pitcher's glove."
-- Warren Buffet
January 11, 2016
Show them what you have achieved through your tidy room, your freer soul
Marie Kondo:
"With willpower, I think about the balancing point between having the determination to start something and having the wisdom to stop. When I was younger I would reach a point in my tidying where I would throw out almost anything. My brother's stuff, my sister's--even my parents' and my teachers' things weren't safe.
What for many people is so difficult to start [WSJ] --tidying--was sometimes difficult for me to stop. One of the most common questions I hear is 'Your book helped me, but what can I do about the messiness of my husband, wife, co-worker, etc.?' I always answer the same way: 'Nothing. You can't change them, and you shouldn't try.'
Show them what you have achieved through your tidy room, your freer soul, and let them find their own way forward. Willpower is not only the drive to change yourself, it's also the sense of understanding that this power has limits."
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo.
January 5, 2016
Work hard, use your talents, perhaps start a business, maybe even make the world a better place OR accomplish little, yet be relaxed and happy OR
Is it more important to you to have little, accomplish little, yet be relaxed and happy and spend time with family? Or is it more important to you to work hard, use your talents, perhaps start a business, maybe even make the world a better place along the way ?
-- Richard J. Light, professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and author of "Making the Most of College."
a parable of a happy fisherman living a simple life on a small island. The fellow goes fishing for a few hours every day. He catches a few fish, sells them to his friends, and enjoys spending the rest of the day with his wife and children, and napping. He couldn't imagine changing a thing in his relaxed and easy life.
A recent M.B.A. visits this island and quickly sees how this fisherman could become rich. He could catch more fish, start up a business, market the fish, open a cannery, maybe even issue an I.P.O. Ultimately he would become truly successful. He could donate some of his fish to hungry children worldwide and might even save lives.
"And then what?" asks the fisherman.
"Then you could spend lots of time with your family," replies the visitor. "Yet you would have made a difference in the world. You would have used your talents, and fed some poor children, instead of just lying around all day."