October 1 @ 11:01:49 a.m.
Think about it
"Here is a fact that should help you fight a bit longer. Things that don't actually kill you outright make you stronger."
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October 3 @ 4:48:25 p.m.
The Power of the Marginal
This clever and entertaining essay from Paul Graham discusses how outsiders, free from convention and expectations, often generate the most revolutionary of ideas.
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October 12 @ 3:56:39 p.m.
Meditation Thought: Anxiety
"Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it."
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October 15 @ 8:48:03 a.m.
Look well
"Look to this day, for it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the varieties and realities of your existence, the bliss of growth, the glory of action, the splendour of beauty. For yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day, such is the salutation of the dawn. "
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October 17 @ 6:03:52 p.m.
Going for the Go Point
The Go Point: the moment when a decision becomes action. With an easy writing style and on-the-ground stories, Michael Useem, Director of the Center for Leadership and Change at the Wharton School, prescribes how to make the best decision when the stakes are the highest.
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October 19 @ 5:42:57 p.m.
Meditation Thought: In the World
"Most people are on the world, not in it, have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them, undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate."
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October 22 @ 9:21:16 a.m.
What to do?
"Do what is right. You may please some people, and astonish the rest! "
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October 24 @ 10:13:21 p.m.
Changing the Rules: Lessons from a Starfish World
Such seemingly dissimilar groups as the Apache Indians, music swapping programs, Wikipedia, Alcoholics Anonymous and al Queda have one thing in common: they are all starfish. According to Brafman and Beckstrom, each of these resilient groups succeeds because they are absent any hierarchy (head) and conventional organizations (spiders) best watch their backs.
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October 27 @ 12:59:05 a.m.
Being
Being is not only beyond but also deep within every form as its innermost invisible and indestructible essence. This means that it is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still.
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October 27 @ 8:39:27 a.m.
Can you believe it?!
UN initiates arms trade agreement
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October 31 @ 2:14:27 p.m.
Don't Mess Up
There are 10 things that smart leaders do to help them cope, but those very actions could mess up their companies, careers, and lives, says Leadership Resource Columnist Mark Goulston, M.D., and author of Get Out of Your Own Way at Work...and Help Others Do the Same.
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