A friend of mine recently posted a link to a blog discussing Impostor SyndromeMy initial impulse is that I don't suffer from this, but I do believe that all success is a product of timing and that most people are equally capable, and that hard work does not pay off equally for everyone because of the importance of timing and continous adjustments. ( Read more... )

when things look their bleakest, do something unexpected and courageous.

Victor Frankl and those giving away their last bread
Steve Martin on comedy.  Comedy is about making others uncomfortable.  Or it could be about surprising people.
Improv everywhere.
The arbitrary lines we draw with honor.
The arbitrary lines we cross with joy.
How we break rules with honor.
How we break rules with joy. 

"... our job is to share the joy of the gaming experience with everyone.”

- Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president and CEO 
(source: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9901&Itemid=2)

 you have to document the process of documenting the process.

• Strong self-awareness concerning your strengths and weaknesses is difficult to achieve
• Knowledge of our strengths and weaknesses allows us to better calculate the odds that any given proposal might succeed.
• Because it's difficult to achieve self-awareness, I must depend on others to advise me on how my personal characteristics affect the relative ( Read more... )

 "Give us this day our bread of this day
and which this day alone can give us"

Jean-Luc Marion

Sometimes I feel like my life is like trying to get my arms around and hold together a potato-sack full of sand -- without the potato-sack

I was just checking giddymonkey's journal to see if he's posted lately and found this great story from a few months ago.  I decide that I have to italicize what he says here, just like I would do if I were oh, say, quoting Jesus or something.  Really great effective stuff.

"I intervene putting my arm between them to keep girl from beating on Cassie ( Read more... )

Words are transmissions from an invisible kingdom. It cannot be seen or touched, but can only be read and heard. These invisible things are the creative and transformative power of the physical world.