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When you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four, what will make you proud?

By In You

You can expect the easy life, and end up with precious little of either, or you can embark on a journey of service and adventure. When you’ve arrived at the end of your journey, which of the two are you gonna be more proud of?

ROOTS

Service and adventure consist of finding places where it’s not working and then fix the root cause so that it won’t happen again, as opposed to fix the symptom only.

According to Peter Drucker “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”. Avoiding the useless is a first step, but you can do better by finding places where something’s going wrong and asking how and why, then fix the root cause for it to never happen again.
When you make it a habit of not just fixing the symptom but of fixing the root cause instead, that, my friend, is the secret to your operational and financial success.
If you can get your work to where you enjoy half of it, that’s outstanding because only a few word-users ever achieve it.

OVERHEAD

Everything comes with overhead — with pieces that you don’t like. You could be a supreme court justice university professor and still dislike parts of your work. Every job coming with pieces you don’t like is just part of it, nothing you can do about it. Don’t even think resent or minimize those pieces of your work.

There’s this false perception that senior executives are under the most stress, but the opposite is true. The senior executives are under the least stress because when you’re the chief you decide, you execute. Why don’t you delegate stress? It’s your decision. Any chief’s job is to figure out their journey so they can minimize the things they dislike and delegate them to other people. Near as I can tell, everybody is the CEO of their journey.

CONTROL

Word-users don’t dislike hard work, what word-users dislike is being out of control. Like when we can’t control our environment. When this happens, word-users get overscheduled.

I don’t enjoy being overscheduled. I want some time to be able to think, free myself, ride my bike, jog in my favorite forest, laugh with my family and friends.

Energy we do manage, but time is given to us. Nothing has more time than anything else, and when you become successful, one of the things you start is getting overscheduled — this event to agree to and attend, and maybe last night you wanted to be with your family instead. Circum dances and things happen. It’s up to you to ensure it’s not a waste of time. I like freedom of movement rather than having every minute of every day scheduled.

GIFT

A young word-user should find something they’re passionate about doing. You’re never gonna be great at anything if you don’t love your work.

When I was young, I made this mistake too — got fixed on my gifts. Everybody has gifts. Maybe you’re extremely beautiful, good at mathematics, or other things you’re extremely good at too. Because these are gifts, they can confuse you. Because they’re not the things that determine your journey.

YOU DON’T MAKE GIFTS, YOU MAKE DECISIONS

It’s your decisions that determine your journey, not your gifts. You can be proud of your gifts, happy, and celebrate them. But they were given to you, you didn’t earn them. You can only be proud of the things you earn.

As I get older, I realise I’m not proud of my gifts. School was easy. I got A’s, was good at math, and the rest of it, and I thought that’s who I was. But it’s not true. Those are the things that are gifts. What was hard for me was deciding to use my gifts in certain ways, to challenge myself to doing things that I didn’t think I could do, to put myself in uncomfortable situations.

I would say to a young person that you can decide a life of ease and comfort, or you can decide a life of service and adventure. Which of the two will you be (more) proud of when you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four?

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When you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four, what will make you proud?

When you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four, what will make you proud?

You can expect the easy life, and end up with precious little of either, or you can embark on a journey of service and adventure. When you’ve arrived at the end of your journey, which of the two are you gonna be more proud of?

ROOTS

Service and adventure consist of finding places where it’s not working and then fix the root cause so that it won’t happen again, as opposed to fix the symptom only.

According to Peter Drucker “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all”. Avoiding the useless is a first step, but you can do better by finding places where something’s going wrong and asking how and why, then fix the root cause for it to never happen again.
When you make it a habit of not just fixing the symptom but of fixing the root cause instead, that, my friend, is the secret to your operational and financial success.
If you can get your work to where you enjoy half of it, that’s outstanding because only a few word-users ever achieve it.

OVERHEAD

Everything comes with overhead — with pieces that you don’t like. You could be a supreme court justice university professor and still dislike parts of your work. Every job coming with pieces you don’t like is just part of it, nothing you can do about it. Don’t even think resent or minimize those pieces of your work.

There’s this false perception that senior executives are under the most stress, but the opposite is true. The senior executives are under the least stress because when you’re the chief you decide, you execute. Why don’t you delegate stress? It’s your decision. Any chief’s job is to figure out their journey so they can minimize the things they dislike and delegate them to other people. Near as I can tell, everybody is the CEO of their journey.

CONTROL

Word-users don’t dislike hard work, what word-users dislike is being out of control. Like when we can’t control our environment. When this happens, word-users get overscheduled.

I don’t enjoy being overscheduled. I want some time to be able to think, free myself, ride my bike, jog in my favorite forest, laugh with my family and friends.

Energy we do manage, but time is given to us. Nothing has more time than anything else, and when you become successful, one of the things you start is getting overscheduled — this event to agree to and attend, and maybe last night you wanted to be with your family instead. Circum dances and things happen. It’s up to you to ensure it’s not a waste of time. I like freedom of movement rather than having every minute of every day scheduled.

GIFT

A young word-user should find something they’re passionate about doing. You’re never gonna be great at anything if you don’t love your work.

When I was young, I made this mistake too — got fixed on my gifts. Everybody has gifts. Maybe you’re extremely beautiful, good at mathematics, or other things you’re extremely good at too. Because these are gifts, they can confuse you. Because they’re not the things that determine your journey.

YOU DON’T MAKE GIFTS, YOU MAKE DECISIONS

It’s your decisions that determine your journey, not your gifts. You can be proud of your gifts, happy, and celebrate them. But they were given to you, you didn’t earn them. You can only be proud of the things you earn.

As I get older, I realise I’m not proud of my gifts. School was easy. I got A’s, was good at math, and the rest of it, and I thought that’s who I was. But it’s not true. Those are the things that are gifts. What was hard for me was deciding to use my gifts in certain ways, to challenge myself to doing things that I didn’t think I could do, to put myself in uncomfortable situations.

I would say to a young person that you can decide a life of ease and comfort, or you can decide a life of service and adventure. Which of the two will you be (more) proud of when you’re losing your hair, many years from now, when you’re eighty-four?

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Art is older than words

By In You

While artists appear to possess a 7th sense for what’s going on, you don’t need to be an artist for what’s going on in the world to make you sad.

7th sense or not, I was surprised, and still am, to have discovered through my research into the story of words, that the arts predate the invention of words by tens of thousands and hundreds of millions of years.

Previous to my research into the story of words and how it all began, I believed the arts were new.

That said, let me not be misunderstood.

By art I mean the classical arts of architecture, dance, music, painting, and sculpture.

By new I mean after the invention of words and how it all began. If you follow me on LinkedIn, you know that words began when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, 13,750 years ago.

MUSIC

Voices, drums, percussions, and other means of making music may date back to when animals were invented, 600 million years BW (Before Words). Other than that, the oldest musical instruments discovered so far by word-users — flutes made from bird bone and mammoth ivory — date from 30,000 years BW.

ARCHITECTURE

Termites — the architects of complex mounds several feet tall — exist since 100 million years BW. Their mounds are among the earliest architected buildings discovered so far.

DANCE

Paradise birds — known for their elaborate courtship dances, with males performing to attract females — exist since 45 million BW.

PAINTINGS

The earliest cave paintings discovered so far — in Indonesian caves, of hands, pigs, and deer — date from 30,000 years BW.

SCULPTURE

The earliest sculptured figurines — made from clay and other materials, then fired in kilns partially dug into the ground — date from 10,000 years BW.

What is BW (Before Words) art?

BW art includes the wordless arts of music, architecture, dance, painting, and sculpture, also known as the classical arts.

What is AW (After Words) art?

AW art is every art invented After Words, including anything made of letters (letterature, also known as literature), songs, photography, movies, and videos, to name a few.

  • “Great music doesn’t take words, but great songs do.” – Polo Hofer
  • “I can assure you that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.” – Jean Tinguely
  • “I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” – David Lynch

ARTificial intelligence

ARTificial intelligence is word-users pretending to understand what it is.

  • “Some people worry that ARTificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – Alan Kay
  • “Stupidity beats ARTificial intelligence every time.” – Terry Pratchett

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Art is older than words

Art is older than words

While artists appear to possess a 7th sense for what’s going on, you don’t need to be an artist for what’s going on in the world to make you sad.

7th sense or not, I was surprised, and still am, to have discovered through my research into the story of words, that the arts predate the invention of words by tens of thousands and hundreds of millions of years.

Previous to my research into the story of words and how it all began, I believed the arts were new.

That said, let me not be misunderstood.

By art I mean the classical arts of architecture, dance, music, painting, and sculpture.

By new I mean after the invention of words and how it all began. If you follow me on LinkedIn, you know that words began when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, 13,750 years ago.

MUSIC

Voices, drums, percussions, and other means of making music may date back to when animals were invented, 600 million years BW (Before Words). Other than that, the oldest musical instruments discovered so far by word-users — flutes made from bird bone and mammoth ivory — date from 30,000 years BW.

ARCHITECTURE

Termites — the architects of complex mounds several feet tall — exist since 100 million years BW. Their mounds are among the earliest architected buildings discovered so far.

DANCE

Paradise birds — known for their elaborate courtship dances, with males performing to attract females — exist since 45 million BW.

PAINTINGS

The earliest cave paintings discovered so far — in Indonesian caves, of hands, pigs, and deer — date from 30,000 years BW.

SCULPTURE

The earliest sculptured figurines — made from clay and other materials, then fired in kilns partially dug into the ground — date from 10,000 years BW.

What is BW (Before Words) art?

BW art includes the wordless arts of music, architecture, dance, painting, and sculpture, also known as the classical arts.

What is AW (After Words) art?

AW art is every art invented After Words, including anything made of letters (letterature, also known as literature), songs, photography, movies, and videos, to name a few.

  • “Great music doesn’t take words, but great songs do.” – Polo Hofer
  • “I can assure you that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.” – Jean Tinguely
  • “I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.” – David Lynch

ARTificial intelligence

ARTificial intelligence is word-users pretending to understand what it is.

  • “Some people worry that ARTificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.” – Alan Kay
  • “Stupidity beats ARTificial intelligence every time.” – Terry Pratchett

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Intelligence

By In You

Intelligence

Comparing the word-user’s intelligence to our own is an act of delusional trance.
Delusional trance because it’s got nothing to do with intelligence.

If we began to be intelligent again — if we’d got rid of being smart again — then we’d not only know that intelligence is a gift from how it all began, but we’d also know that we’re not the only ones to have received it.
We’d know that the energy, fire, air, earth, and water have received it, too.

ENERGY, FIRE, AIR, EARTH, WATER…

  • Don’t possess a brain.
  • Never spent a day at school.
  • Are infinitely more intelligent than the word-users.
  • Arrived by space travel from an outer space we barely know the limits of.
  • That the energy has been around since before the big bang (in fact, it caused it).
  • That the other 4 have been around since before the birth of Earth 4.65 billion years ago (in fact, they created it).
  • All 5 cannot be destroyed. Instead they take on different shapes and forms for reason known only to the 5 themselves).
  • That they possess the perfect memory. They always find back to themselves.
  • Invented the cells, plants, animals, eyes, brains, words, and word-users, that is you, I, and the approximately other 9 billion word-users on planet earth.

The CELLS…

  • Don’t possess a brain.
  • Never spent a day at school.
  • Created you, and me, from scratch, brain included.

The PLANTS…

  • Don’t possess brains.
  • Never spent a day at school.
  • Predict the weather, the seasons, the cycles of the sun, the moon, and the stars above.
  • Know the Fibonacci number and other things the word-users only know the limits of.
  • Well, some plants know, too many to name here.

The ANIMALS…

  • There are two types: The wordy (not to be mistaken for the worthy), and the wordless (not to be mistaken for the worthless).
  • The wordy are us, the word-users, the only specie that builds schools to use words.
  • The wordless are the other 8.7 to 16 million animal species that don’t build schools, hence never spent a day there, yet they know more than we’ll ever know.

SUMMARY

If we were intelligent, we’d compare our intelligence not with our own, but with that of the energy, fire, air, earth, and water.

Why? Because the energy, fire, air, earth, and water have existed for the first 99.9997 percent of Earth-Time already. At the same time we, the wordy, have existed for the most recent 0.0003 percent of Earth-Time only.

If intelligence has got anything to do with anyone’s or anything’s ability to respond to change, then the intelligence of the energy, fire, air, earth, and water is beyond the shadow of a doubt infinitely greater than ours.

TAKEAWAY

To get a fair yardstick to compare our wordy intelligence with that of the wordless intelligence of the energy, fire, air, earth, and water, we must figure out the length of an infinite yardstick first.

Even though we have now artificial intelligence on our side, I doubt that’s enough to figure out the infinite.

What do you think?

I’d love to hear what you think.

Please let me know in the comments below, or by email to beat@schindlersword.com

“How many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing?” – Geoffrey Hinton

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Intelligence

Intelligence

Comparing the word-user’s intelligence to our own is an act of delusional trance.
Delusional trance because it’s got nothing to do with intelligence.

If we began to be intelligent again — if we’d got rid of being smart again — then we’d not only know that intelligence is a gift from how it all began, but we’d also know that we’re not the only ones to have received it.
We’d know that the energy, fire, air, earth, and water have received it, too.

ENERGY, FIRE, AIR, EARTH, WATER…

  • Don’t possess a brain.
  • Never spent a day at school.
  • Are infinitely more intelligent than the word-users.
  • Arrived by space travel from an outer space we barely know the limits of.
  • That the energy has been around since before the big bang (in fact, it caused it).
  • That the other 4 have been around since before the birth of Earth 4.65 billion years ago (in fact, they created it).
  • All 5 cannot be destroyed. Instead they take on different shapes and forms for reason known only to the 5 themselves).
  • That they possess the perfect memory. They always find back to themselves.
  • Invented the cells, plants, animals, eyes, brains, words, and word-users, that is you, I, and the approximately other 9 billion word-users on planet earth.

The CELLS…

  • Don’t possess a brain.
  • Never spent a day at school.
  • Created you, and me, from scratch, brain included.

The PLANTS…

  • Don’t possess brains.
  • Never spent a day at school.
  • Predict the weather, the seasons, the cycles of the sun, the moon, and the stars above.
  • Know the Fibonacci number and other things the word-users only know the limits of.
  • Well, some plants know, too many to name here.

The ANIMALS…

  • There are two types: The wordy (not to be mistaken for the worthy), and the wordless (not to be mistaken for the worthless).
  • The wordy are us, the word-users, the only specie that builds schools to use words.
  • The wordless are the other 8.7 to 16 million animal species that don’t build schools, hence never spent a day there, yet they know more than we’ll ever know.

SUMMARY

If we were intelligent, we’d compare our intelligence not with our own, but with that of the energy, fire, air, earth, and water.

Why? Because the energy, fire, air, earth, and water have existed for the first 99.9997 percent of Earth-Time already. At the same time we, the wordy, have existed for the most recent 0.0003 percent of Earth-Time only.

If intelligence has got anything to do with anyone’s or anything’s ability to respond to change, then the intelligence of the energy, fire, air, earth, and water is beyond the shadow of a doubt infinitely greater than ours.

TAKEAWAY

To get a fair yardstick to compare our wordy intelligence with that of the wordless intelligence of the energy, fire, air, earth, and water, we must figure out the length of an infinite yardstick first.

Even though we have now artificial intelligence on our side, I doubt that’s enough to figure out the infinite.

What do you think?

I’d love to hear what you think.

Please let me know in the comments below, or by email to beat@schindlersword.com

“How many examples do you know of a more intelligent thing being controlled by a less intelligent thing?” – Geoffrey Hinton

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Word-users that achieve their vision don’t have anything you couldn’t have too.

By In Words, You

The word-users that achieve their vision know that vision is no different to every other word they have a word for, defeat the odds, keep going when the going gets tough, which it will, become famous eventually, and don’t have anything you couldn’t have, too.

The only thing they have, but you could have too, is a dream taken seriously, also known as a vision.

A vision is nothing more than a dream taken seriously, hence written down so it’s remembered until achieved, which may take years and possibly to the end of their days. Until that time, they just keep showing up while expecting miracles to happen long after those without a vision got practical, and instead of paying the bulk of their attention on the what to achieve, got busy with the cursed how.

Would you build a house without first committing your dream house to paper? Of course you wouldn’t.

Taking your dream seriously, also known as visioneering, eliminates the shouldhaves, couldhaves, wouldhaves, and what-ifs. At the same time, it also allows you to preview your vision achieved, increases your willingness to trust the builders when you’re not there in person, and has you guided by your vision as opposed to guided by mood swings.

But having a dream taken seriously, meaning a vision, isn’t enough, if on top of that you don’t also expect miracles.
If you don’t expect miracles, perhaps you have forgotten you are one.

Albert Einstein, knowing a thing or two about vision, used to say “There are only two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Here comes a miracle now.

Don’t be like the frog kissed by the princess that shouted “I’m not ready!”

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Word-users that achieve their vision don’t have anything you couldn’t have too.

Word-users that achieve their vision don’t have anything you couldn’t have too.

The word-users that achieve their vision know that vision is no different to every other word they have a word for, defeat the odds, keep going when the going gets tough, which it will, become famous eventually, and don’t have anything you couldn’t have, too.

The only thing they have, but you could have too, is a dream taken seriously, also known as a vision.

A vision is nothing more than a dream taken seriously, hence written down so it’s remembered until achieved, which may take years and possibly to the end of their days. Until that time, they just keep showing up while expecting miracles to happen long after those without a vision got practical, and instead of paying the bulk of their attention on the what to achieve, got busy with the cursed how.

Would you build a house without first committing your dream house to paper? Of course you wouldn’t.

Taking your dream seriously, also known as visioneering, eliminates the shouldhaves, couldhaves, wouldhaves, and what-ifs. At the same time, it also allows you to preview your vision achieved, increases your willingness to trust the builders when you’re not there in person, and has you guided by your vision as opposed to guided by mood swings.

But having a dream taken seriously, meaning a vision, isn’t enough, if on top of that you don’t also expect miracles.
If you don’t expect miracles, perhaps you have forgotten you are one.

Albert Einstein, knowing a thing or two about vision, used to say “There are only two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.”

Here comes a miracle now.

Don’t be like the frog kissed by the princess that shouted “I’m not ready!”

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#VisioneeringMiracles #innovation #creativity

To get your FREE copy of the complete MAGIC MIRACLES QUOTES WORTH READING TWICE, click on the ebook cover above.