Rule 1: Life is fair. Humans are not — get used to it! Rule 2: People won’t care about your self-esteem. People will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a …
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Category:7 Holonics and Life
Don’t let pain killers squash your baby.
Apparently the incidence of babies born in the US with opiate withdrawal has spiked in the Bush decade. New born infants with symptoms increased 3x, from prescription and recreational drug use. Babies gestated with these powerful drugs in the mothers system are less well developed. An editorial in the Journal of The American Medical Association …
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Don’t give up.
“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi This is the struggle to change for good. You are facing the torrent of fear and greed and trying to turn the flow, and yourself, to love. Until all humanity knows and feels the honesty of cosmic law, …
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Barefoot College
I had forgotten about Barefoot College until Pammy sent me this link to a talk by Sanjit “Bunker” Roy who has legitimised education without degrees. The confidence he has inspired has changed lives of thousands. Anyone want to start Bog College with me? http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/es/bunker_roy.html
Growth is not the answer …
The new World Bank boss has initiated his tenure with a hearty rendition of the fat cats’ mantra: “growth is good”. Or is that “greed is good”? The trouble is that growth is the cause of all the problems. It starts with the politicians rule: “more people voting for me is good”, and the commercial …
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Learning is painful.
At least when you’re making a leap or really starting something new. You can either accept the pain of the process or not. Not accepting it means avoiding it and not learning. If you accept the challenge choose to live with the pain and enjoy the process. Or choose to hate the pain and fight …
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Aspirin for cancer.
What is aspirin? Now manufactured in a lab it originally started as a natural remedy based on extract of willow bark. It is a magic cure for headaches and now cancer. But it has side effects because it does change the consistency of blood and increases the chance of internal bleeding. Taking a low dose …
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Government bureaucracy is keeping us down.
IMD just sent out promotion for the World Competitiveness Yearbook. The table here was highlighted. My beloved Hong Kong, where you can get things done, is at the top, but Ireland, mired in government sloth, is comparable to centrally controlled Mainland China. Anyone who has taken initiative will know that much red tape is wasteful …
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Open Business – doing it right.
Just came across the Wikipedia page on Open Business. Its a great first step to changing the way you think about business. Check it out. Open Business Ricardo Semler’s Maverick is an inspiring biographical account of opening the running of a large, traditionally run private business.
I used to love a nice, bloody steak …
.. but now, having been on a non-meat diet for years, wouldn’t be able to digest it. As a meat eater, health was not one of my priorities. Living, having fun, partying, burgers and beer, were much more important. But just in case you care, it’s probably worth getting good beef … it seems processing …
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