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Economics professor Tyler Cowen on raising the aspirations of others:
“Yesterday I had lunch with a former Ph.D student of mine, who is now highly successful and tenured at a very good school. I was reminded that, over twenty years ago, I was Graduate Director of Admissions. One of my favorite strategies was to take strong candidates who applied for... See more
“Yesterday I had lunch with a former Ph.D student of mine, who is now highly successful and tenured at a very good school. I was reminded that, over twenty years ago, I was Graduate Director of Admissions. One of my favorite strategies was to take strong candidates who applied for... See more
3-2-1: Thoughts on greatness, enjoying the journey, and raising the aspirations of others
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If at any time it comes into my head that a present is due from me to somebody, I am puzzled what to give, until the opportunity is gone. Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the somewhat stern... See more
Emerson on selecting the right gift to give at Christmas and New Year (1844) | Online Library of Liberty
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end... But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played". Alan watts
Coaching is guiding a person toward their own inner wisdom, clarity, and sense of possibility.
Tara Sophia Mohr
“Leadership is not about titles, status, and wielding power. A leader is anyone who steps up and takes responsibility for recognizing the potential in people and ideas, and has the courage to develop that potential” (Brown, 2018)
Perhaps the art of harvesting the secret riches of our lives is best achieved when we place profound trust in the act of beginning. Risk might be our greatest ally. To live a truly creative life, we always need to cast a critical look at where we presently are, attempting always to discern where we have become stagnant and where new beginning might
... See moreOur bodies are incredibly sophisticated truth-detection machines. - Martha Beck