Lessin's Lessons

Later in my recovery I did solicit real clients with real mandates. I was quite effective in obtaining secondary roles; no one really wants to turn down a stroke victim.

It’s not that I’m necessarily opposed to a nice setting; I just want to spend time with guests who are interested in spending time with me independent of their perceived trappings of my environment.

Find irony and humor in the most challenging of circumstances. I doubt that you can find humor, other than the most macabre, in a serious stroke. I can. I was cared for by a Filipino nurse, one of the most beautiful women that I have ever encountered. One day, while she was dressing me, my right hand, the stroke impacted side, brushed by her left b

This was my type of firm; I told Rich that I would start immediately. This was a bit disorienting to him; he had not decided whether to make me an offer.

Try to experience a major setback every decade. If you aren’t dealt one, create one. Get yourself fired. Get seriously sick. Get divorced. If you don’t, you’ll end up with way too many friends. You’ll end life not knowing who your friends really are. You’ll be amazed, when you have a setback, how few friends you really have. But those will be true

I should have seen this coming when he conceived of Life Capital. The highest fixed expense for a young adult is their education. Sam created LifeCapital.com where individuals could sell a piece of their future income for up front capital. His reasoning was that, if individuals could sell debt in their future (i.e. student loans), why could they no

Sam, unlike me, did not make the mistake of confusing technology with a virtual existence. Upon grasping that technology enabled isolation, I gravitated immediately to a hermitic life. Part of this was based on my medical realities, like a major stroke, but most of it was not. It turned out, for me, to be an unsatisfactory existence. I now crave hu

One might argue that Sam’s disregard for owning assets is a consequence of being surrounded by so many while growing up. I wonder, were my generation to lose its assets, whether his generation would devote itself to replenishing them. I’m also curious how much of Sam’s variable mentality will survive once he has the responsibility of children.

Date outside your culture. On the premise that it is a remote possibility that any relationship will be lasting, the fundamental question should be what lasting impact can I obtain from a relationship?