Sublime

the issue of neighborhood identity,

To a considerable extent, the machinery was his machinery; he, more than any other individual, had drafted the executive budget system, the departmental consolidation and the hundreds of bills that implemented those constitutional amendments. He, more than any other individual, knew the considerations—constitutional, legal and political—that lay be

Trafalgar Square.

There was the little Mayor’s romantic streak, the side of him that was the dreamer, dreaming of making his city beautiful. His dreams for the beautification were vast but vague, and no one appreciated better than he the enormous difficulty in filling in the vague outline of a magnificent metropolis with specific plans and then in obtaining the mone

Si monumentum requiris, circumspice, reads the inscription on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren. If you would see his monument, look around. By 1939, the same advice could have been given to a New Yorker asking to see the monuments of Robert Moses. They were everywhere in the great city.

Narrative coaching builds on this by helping people identify simple Nudges they can regularly use to reinforce their new narrative using all four BEAM elements (Behavior, Environment, Aspiration, and Mindset). In a sense, we are helping people become their own “choice architects”

Two or three senators interested in a particular bill would come onto the floor, and, the bill disposed of, would leave, to be replaced by two or three others. Individual senators would wander in and out. Stars and spear carriers changed: the majority and minority leaders wandered in and out; the Senate reporters who recorded every word spoken on t

As you do your life’s work, you will be creating your own path from day to day. No one is going to structure it or lay out a blueprint for you.