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| Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | Views: 455 |
| May 04, 2009 1:52 pm | | Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
The Eagle: Motivating Champions Around The World | |
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
Edward P. Morgan
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| May 04, 2009 5:22 pm | | re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Thomas Holford | | Edward sayeth:
"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy."
True and profound.
Unfortunately, no one reads anymore and elections are decided by those who watch Oprah, "American Idol", and "Dancing with the Stars".
We are so screwed.
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| May 04, 2009 6:01 pm | | re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Ken Hilving | | Let's not mistake "book" the object with "book" the concept. From cave drawings to clay and stone to papyrus and skin scrolls to linen pulp to wood pulp to electronic storage and display, the path of the concept "book" is ever growing in volumes and readership.
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Elections don't screw us. It is the lack of personal responsibility and self reliance that leaves us screwed, and that is a condition each of us can remedy independently.
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| May 04, 2009 9:04 pm | | re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Thomas Holford | | Kenneth sayeth:
> Elections don't screw us. It is the lack of personal responsibility and self reliance that leaves us screwed, and that is a condition each of us can remedy independently.
True enough.
But the question that cries out for answer is: where does the appreciation for and diligent practice of personal responsibility and self reliance come from?
Thomas Holford
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| May 05, 2009 12:44 pm | | re: re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Ken Hilving | | Good questions. "Where does the appreciation for and diligent practice of personal responsibility and self reliance come from?"
I believe we are born with the appreciation for personal responsibility and self reliance. Childhood is a time of struggle between the innate desire for this and the parents' equally innate desire to care for their offspring.
The diligent practice of this is a matter of social and cultural pressure that seeks a balance between individualism and conformity.Private Reply to Ken Hilving |
| May 05, 2009 9:36 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Joseph Lynders | | ~~~~~-------~~~~~~~
Ken - I am interested in your reason or reasons that you believe we are born with the appreciation for personal responsibility and self reliance.
I have actually never heard that fact.
I have heard that the average adult today has the appreciation for personal responsibility and self reliance of the average thirteen year old. (I don't remember where I heard/read this but the concept stuck in my mind.)
I suppose that in some ways these two concepts are not mutually exclusive.
I expect that there is no way to determine weather or not the unborn have an appreciation for personal responsibility and self reliance.
Have a good IDea today,
05/05/09 Joseph F. Lynders FTg/M/TPrivate Reply to Joseph Lynders |
| May 06, 2009 4:42 am | | re: re: re: re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Ken Hilving | | Consider the effort of parents and teachers to limit children's natural inclination to do for themselves, to explore new capabilities and personal approaches.
Every time someone tells a child "Here, let me do that for you" it is in response to the child's natural desire for self reliance. Every time someone excuses a child's error, it is in response to the child's natural inclination for personal responsibility.
This is where I see the innate appreciation for personal responsibility and self reliance, apparent even in two year olds.
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What a strange tangent your initial post started, Richard. :)Private Reply to Ken Hilving |
| May 06, 2009 2:12 pm | | re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Seeds Of Greatness Motivational Minute | # |
Joseph Lynders | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~-----~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wow!!! What an interesting thought Kenneth.
Kenneth - Every time someone tells a child "Here, let me do that for you" it is in response to the child's natural desire for self reliance. Every time someone excuses a child's error, it is in response to the child's natural inclination for personal responsibility. - Kenneth
I have been re-reading very slowly "The Science before Science" by Anthony Rizzi each day by re-reading a few pages I read yesterday and each day continuing on a few pages further.
In the area of knowledge Rizzi suggests there is Proper Knowlege and a few other levels of knowledge. Proper Knowledge is knowledge where you have done the experiments yourself and all the other levels are some form of relying on the opinions of others who may or may not have done the experiments.
I have a one and a half year old Grandchild. She is at a level where she does the experiments herself.
I can observe that she does the things she has found out meet with approval to find out that they continue to meet with approval. She also tries out the things she has learned meet with disapproval to see that they continue to meet with disapproval.
She doesn't appear to do good things to be good and bad thing to be bad. She appears to be doing them just to learn. She is doing experiments.
I never noticed that with my own children.
05/06/09 Joseph F. Lynders FTg/M/TPrivate Reply to Joseph Lynders |
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