MargaretC
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MargaretC
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at 11:56 mins:
"What really amazed me was Jerry, Julia Louis, Michael, and Jason gathered around the camera. They formed a little semicircle and a separated me from the audience. They've stood there like they were holding me like, like, like I was. I felt like I was in the womb, and they were protecting me. It's telling me, we love you. You're going to be good. You're going to be wonderful".


This is not a story about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl
from The Economist
When you’re in middle age, which I am (mid-middle age, to be precise—I’m now 52), you start to realize how very much you need your friends. They’re the flora and fauna in a life that hasn’t had much diversity, because you’ve been so busy—so relentlessly, stupidly busy—with middle-age things: kids, house, spouse, or some modern-day version of
... See morereactive use of intelligence narrows our vision. In contrast, projective thinking is expansive, “open-ended,” and speculative, requiring the thinker to create the context, concepts, and the objectives.
"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
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