Ben Carlson is genuinely.....................

 

..........a smart guy, but I disagree with him on this one:

"The stock market is the only place where anyone can invest in human ingenuity."

Win-Win..........................

 

And yet gratitude, both the possession and the giving, always matters.  Possess it and you gain perspective. Give it and you inspire.

-Michael Wade, from this edition

I love you..................

 

     Bob [Knight] was well-known for his fiery temper.  And he had an intense, imposing demeanor that made him seem very intimidating.  But over the years, I found a way to cut through all that.  If I wanted to stop him in his tracks, I just had to say, "Hey, Coach, I just want you to know one thing.  I love you, man. You changed my life."

     That would melt him right down.  As it does most people.  I've learned that it's hard for people, especially males, to tell other people, "I love you."  Even with my own son, for most of his early years, I noticed it was uncomfortable for him to say "I love you," back to me.  It's strange because each and every one of us has a thirst to be loved, to be appreciated, acknowledged, respected.  And yet, for some reason, there's a difficulty or discomfort in expressing to others, "I love you."  "I appreciate you."  "I respect you."  "I'm glad you're my friend."  "I know we have our differences, but I'm here for you."

     I think we would be surprised by how few people regularly hear these kinds of things.  I would wager that over half of the young people in America go to bed every night without hearing a single affirming word.

-George Raveling, What You're Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports

Gone but not forgotten...................

 

     In a relationship, it's easy to focus on what's wrong, to let minor disagreements fester into major conflicts.  But the real strength lies in being able to see past those differences, to forgive, and to move forward together.

-George Raveling, What You're Made For: Powerful Life Lessons from My Career in Sports

Unfortunately................

 

One of the great lessons of the past decade is that when you read a variation of “experts say” in a headline, you ought to think twice and for yourself.

-from this episode of The Free Press

not forgetting...................

 

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the Earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of stars. What strange arrays of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts — physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on — remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

-Richard Feynman

Accountability...................

 

Without a level of responsibility to others, complacency tends to creep in more quickly.

-Ted Lamade, from this post

Try me.....................

 

But after writing about money for two decades, I am constantly amazed at how bad most of us are at knowing what we want out of money, or how to use it as anything more than a benchmark of status and success.

Morgan Housel, who writes better than most, has a new book coming out, The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices For A Richer Life.  My copy has been ordered.

Life as a......................

 

........................................scavenger hunt.

Teaching the concept..............

 

...........................................of "one more."

Don is not afraid of........................

 

.............. AI causing massive unemployment:

Jobs in market economies will disappear only when unmet human desires disappear – an impossible outcome that, were it miraculously to occur, would be cause for unprecedented rejoicing rather than handwringing.

Fun with..........................

 

.................................the Hubble Telescope:

a super power..................

 

A well-educated workforce always powers the economy higher.

-Barry Ritholtz

Counting.................

 

There was a sign hanging in the physicist Albert Einstein's office at Princeton that said: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

-Peter Bevelin

opportunities..................

 

Each day is composed of 86,400 seconds—that's 86,400 opportunities to make ourselves better than we were yesterday, to bring hope to someone else.  These opportunities can be as simple as offering a genuine "thank you," sharing a warm smile, or giving an encouraging pat on the back. . . .

     In the end, that's all we're made for—to lift each other up, to remind each other of our inherent worth and potential, to keep hope alive in big ways and small.

-George Raveling, What You're Made For

good luck with this one..................

 

I don't believe I have the ability to say what is going to work.  Rather, I try to eliminate what's not going to work.  I think being successful is just about not making mistakes.  It's not about having correct judgment.  It's about avoiding incorrect judgments.

-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

clearly..................

 

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

-Bruce Lee

Harder than it sounds.................