“I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage. My hesitancy in speech, which was once an annoyance, is now a pleasure. Continue reading
Author: onetusk
“Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.”
What I’m saying to you this morning, my friends, even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; Continue reading
Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall
John Lennon – Imagine
Transform breakdowns into breakthroughs…
To transform breakdowns into breakthroughs is the whole function of a master. The psychotherapist simply patches you up. That is his function. He is not there to transform you. You need a meta-psychology, the psychology of the buddhas. Continue reading
Much courage will be needed…
The seed cannot know what is going to happen, the seed has never known the flower. And the seed cannot even believe that he has the potentiality to become a beautiful flower. Continue reading
25 Lessons Learned from John Wooden
- A doer makes mistakes. If you’re not doing, you’re not learning. Everybody makes mistakes. It’s what you do with them that counts.
- Academics are enduring. Getting an education is a #1 priority. Wooden made it a point to his players that they were first and foremost a student (the student part of “student athlete”). Wooden said, “If you let social activity take precedence over the other two (education and sports), then you’re not going to have any for very long.” Wooden also said, “Sports are kind of like passion and that’s temporary in many cases, but academics — that’s like true love and that’s enduring.”
- Agree to disagree, but don’t be disagreeable. According to Wooden, “We can agree to disagree, but we don’t need to be disagreeable.” Continue reading
Lessons Learned from Stephen Covey
One of the interesting people I got to meet this year is Dr. Stephen Covey. He presented at Microsoft earlier this year. It’s one thing to know the information; it’s another to experience the delivery live. This post is a bit longer than usual, but hey, hey Covey has lots of insights. Here are some of my highlights from the session.
http://sourcesofinsight.com/lessons-learned-from-stephen-covey/
stitching together a new South African fabric….
I MADE OVER SIXTY-THREE TRIPS to South Africa between 1981 and 1999, launching the South African initiative first called “Strategic Evolution.” During that period, my basic role was to reshape the definitions the various sectors of society were using to stereotype each other, replacing the usual racial/ethnic categories with an understanding of these value system or memetic differences, all of which were alive in that global microcosm. The complexity of the South African situation had been simplified down to what is morally right or wrong along race lines, and that was a grave mistake. Continue reading
Conversation with God
Me : God, can I ask You a question?
God : Sure Continue reading
ONE TUSK 