Once clocks were invented, our time was no longer ours. It is someone else’s. We call it “free time” when we are off the clock for a reason. Believe it or not, the early Greek word “scole” or “skole” meant “leisure.” It led to the Latin word “scola” and the English word “school” or “scholar”—thus implying a close connection between leisure and education. Which is vastly different than what we think school should accomplish today.
We should ask why this person’s platform is as big as it is. Because there are those out there with something important to say and others with popularity who think that what they say is important.
Famous voices are not necessarily the ones we need to listen to.
Too many of us are embarrassed to admit we listen to people who shouldn’t have the stage to begin with.
Get rid of all the information on the internet; what are you left with?
Perhaps we should build something more tangible than the brand and appearance of success we create online.
Most of what we see on the internet is what people want to see. An illusion. A trick.
Wishing for things to be different zaps power out of our hands. It wastes energy that we could use to accept how things are. When we have power, we can, indeed, change things.
For we cannot change the past, only the future.
What do we choose to keep score of?
Whose voice do we listen to?
Who are we trying to help?
What do we collect?
What do we seek?
Where do we want to go?
How do we conduct our business?
Now…why?
Our minds constantly wander off to be somewhere else. Why is that? Are there evolutionary advantages to this? We transfer ourselves from our current circumstances (even if we are happy) to the next.
Wondering, however, is different. Unlike wandering, wondering requires focus. We let curiosity take us somewhere. Exploring the blank spaces on a map.
We have way more options than we think we do.
We decided it was too risky to go anywhere, so we stayed put.
After a while, that can limit how we see things,
Too much time is spent beating ourselves up over the choices that led us here.
Perhaps a better path is to focus on the choices we have in front of us rather than living in the past.
He failed because he built wings and fixed them with wax.
Perhaps that is all he had to escape.
We have the luxury to decide what materials we want to use to fly with.
But too many of us are afraid to even try and do something so bold and daring.
We can hope for different circumstances, but we can’t control them. They often change on their own. You are on top of the world for one minute, and the next, you’re not. The space we cannot live in is denial. When we can’t be honest about where we are, we can’t see where we need to go.
There’s a really toxic view in our culture today about the association of wealth and hard work. There are lots of ways to make money and many ways that don’t require a lot of work. Going to work every day, working multiple jobs, carrying the stress of any day going underwater. That is hard work. Sure there is risk in any venture. But having access to capital, being taught how to manipulate, and understanding that currency has a bias—doesn’t give people the right to judge where someone else is at. It’s low competency not understanding how money works.
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