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A Year of Greatness — A Year of Genius
Greatness and genius can easily become labels reserved for exceptional people or rare moments.
Notes onclarity, practice, meaning, change
Short pieces on the distinctions that change how a thing is seen — written by the people doing the work.
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Jupid, Jupiter, Jupidest — the next, best, better thing
Hundreds of flavors of ice cream, countless selections of movie channels, an infinite choice of mates, our daily round of work and play, our incessant.
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Being up to something
What marks a visionary is dedication to a possibility, a dedication that rejects outright the complacency of those who prefer the status quo and insists.
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The difference between 99% and 100% is everything
If in the making of a computer chip or a bicycle wheel some small part were left out, neither would be able to function as intended.
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A breakthrough starts with a creative act
Every day we are presented with opportunities to live as if it's business as usual or to create something beyond who we've been, beyond what we know.
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What we have to offer each other is ourselves — our listening, and our speaking
We are essentially in conversations with ourselves most of the time—how we listen is determined by our concerns (being successful, being liked, wanting.
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Games worth playing and openings for action
In taking on big commitments, games worth playing, there will always be failures.
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Where it all comes together
At what point are things the way they are…and at what point a possibility beyond that?
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Being fully at home with ourselves
Our identity, who we consider ourselves to be, is essentially arrived at by default, assembled to adapt to something we saw as wrong or some seeming.
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Values — a platform for our vision, goals, and the difference we are out to make
In being nobody but ourselves, our values are always at play. Values are ongoing, they're never completed.
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The Power of Listening
Communication, conversation, language are predominately thought of, anchored in our minds, as an expressing, a speaking, a vocalizing.
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Oh, those silly humans…
(Oh, those silly humans! So desperate for their absolutes!) Sometimes it seems like the only job of the world is to gently (or not so gently) separate us.
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Stepping outside of existing paradigms, playing a bigger game
A paradigm is a two-edged sword. When we swing it one way, it cuts the information that agrees with it into very fine, precise detail.
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Transformation carries a kind of deep surprise
Deep surprise is a way we signal ourselves that a thing perceived or thought may be consequential, that a discovery or insight may be of genuine use.
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A portal to the domain of possibility
Something happens. Immediately, we assign meaning, categorize importance, draw conclusions, identify action to be taken, form opinions that linger.
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Creative acts — the edge of freedom
We commonly think of freedom as freedom from, freedom of, or freedom to do or be something, or as the ability to define alternatives and select among them.
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Predictability or Possibility — the context is decisive
Living from an invented context has just as much impact and command value as living from a default context—the difference, however, is the difference.
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Create a future you really want — and will dare to make happen
Create a future you really want—and will dare to make happen …where you ignite your special commitments and passions …where the notion of possibility moves.
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Our story — ever malleable and open to being invented
When we're asked who we are, we pretty much tell our story.
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Relationships: alive with possibility
When relationships are driven by complaint or by keeping track of who did what, or the need to be right, to control, the wonderful world of human.
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Coming face to face with how we make meaning
Transformation is the process of becoming aware of how and why our assumptions have come to constrain the way we perceive, understand, and feel about our.
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Stimulating risk is inseparable from living
Nothing is so reckless as waiting for certainty—that's a game we are sure to lose.
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In community, the undoable becomes doable
When we think about the communities we've been a part of, many of them came to be because of something we happened to be involved with at the time (buddies.