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Inspiration

Come back. Even as a shadow, even as a dream.

– Euripides IMG_6394.jpg

Be silent and listen: have you recognized your madness and do you admit it? Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? Do you not want to recognize your madness and welcome it in a friendly manner? You wanted to accept everything. So accept madness too.

Let the light of your madness shine, and it will suddenly dawn on you. Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared, but instead you should give it life…

If you want to find paths, you should also not spurn madness, since it makes up such a great part of your nature… Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim. Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical.

Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself. Life itself has no rules. That is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

– Carl Jung IMG_6395.jpg

Wisdom:

Math, music, starry nights… these are securlar ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by the existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essetially religious experience, but it's not. It's essentially a human experience. IMG_6638.jpg (She's onto something, but missing something - think TM)

10 Rules of Zen:

Let go of:

comparing competing judgements anger regrets worrying blame guilt fear

Laugh >= 1 times per day

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Loss of life is to be mourned. But only if the life was wasted. – Spock

Triumph over circumstance

On the loss of an investment after putting in blood, sweat, and tears… "Oh, but I was bitter… I felt the whole world was an injustice. Then one morning I read three words: NOTHING IS WASTED" - IMG_8106.jpg

THINK: Grist for the mill (Ram Dass): Every difficult emotion, bad situation, or relationship is just raw material to be ground down into spiritual awakening.

THINK: The blazing fire (Marcus Aurelius): A weak flame can be snuffed out by an obstacle, but a great fire uses that same obstacle as fuel to grow brighter and hotter.

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way…

…So keep at it, until it’s fully digested. As a strong stomach digests whatever it eats. As a blazing fire takes whatever you throw on it, and makes it light and flame.

We have but one future, and it will be made of our dreams, if we have the courage to challenge convention. – Soichiro Honda IMG_8255.jpg

The full quote is: Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. Meaning: while curiosity can lead to danger, finding the truth makes the risk worthwhile. Anti-safetyism. IMG_8537.jpg

The achive great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. IMG_8573.jpg

Remember: Evil plots, good plans.

Discovery / Learning / Eureka:

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. – Byrd Baggett, The Book of Excellence IMG_8890.jpg, #CarMetaphor

You've got to be willing to give up good to get great. – Kenny Rogers IMG_8890.jpg

It is like a finger, pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory. IMG_8992.jpg

The Ten Commandments of Logic

  1. Thou shalt not attack the person's character, but the argument. (Ad hominem
  2. Thou shalt not misrepresent or exaggerate a person's argument in order to make it easier to attack. (Straw man fallacy)
  3. Thou shalt not use small numbers to represent the all. (Hasty generalisation.
  4. Thou shalt not argue thy position by assuming one of its premises is true. (Begging the question)
  5. Thou shalt not claim that because something occured before, it must be the cause. (Post hoc/False cause)
  6. Thou shalt not reduce the argument down to two possibilities. (False dichotomy)
  7. Thou shalt not argue that because of our ignorance, a claim must be true or false. (Ad ignorantum)
  8. Thou shalt not lay the burden of proof onto him that is questioning the claim. (Burden of proof reversal)
  9. Thou shalt not assume "this" follows "that" when there is no logical connection. (Non sequitur)
  10. Thou shalt not argue that because a premise is popular, therefore it must be true. (Bandwagon fallacy)

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7 Cardinal Rules For Life

  1. Make peace with your past so it won't disturb your present.
  2. What other people think of you is none of your business.
  3. Time heals almost everything. Give it time.
  4. No one is in charge of your happiness. Except you.
  5. Don't compare your life to others and don't judge them, you have no idea what their journey is all about.
  6. Stop thinking too much. Its alright not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it.
  7. Smile. You don't own all the problems in the world. VITALIGUSATINSKY COM

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Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Be notorious! Destroy your reputation. You have tried prudent planning for long enough. From now on be mad! – Rumi IMG_9367.jpg

You are now Entering the Mission Field. IMG_9862.jpg

An ideal setting Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high. Where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken.

– VLA, Dec 2018 ~ Sherri's advice on art / paper / size, YOUR ART IMG_9912.jpg

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  1. Niche players
  2. Challengers
  3. Visionaries
  4. Leaders

2x2 matrix Gartner Magic Quadrant, Orthongonality of ability to execute vs. completeness of vision

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