Beyond our vast inventory of theories and techniques is something I’ve come to believe is the difference between competence and true mastery. It is the convener’s way of being—an attitudinal, emotional, physical, and even spiritual
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“Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.”
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
― The Long Haul: An Autobiography
“I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.”
― Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
― Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
“A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.”
― The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
― The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
“Finally, we can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals. Much of the vaunted material wealth that shields us from disease and famine was accumulated at the expense of laboratory monkeys, dairy cows and conveyor-belt chickens. Over the last two centuries tens of billions of them have been subjected to a regime of industrial exploitation whose cruelty has no precedent in the annals of planet Earth. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatest crime in history. When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already”
― Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
― Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
Dickens as Writ
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Join up with those reading Dickens as originally read--a chapter a week. Imagine awaiting the post delivering the next installment of Bleak House or G ...more
Ask Mary Roach - Wednesday, April 10th!
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Join us on Wednesday, April 10th for a special discussion with author Mary Roach! Mary will be discussing her work, including her most recent book Gul ...more
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