If anyone can refute me – show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective – I’ll gladly change.
It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.
Sunday, February 5, 2023
Saturday, February 4, 2023
choose not to be harmed
Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed.
Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been.
Friday, February 3, 2023
concentrate every minute like a roman
Concentrate every minute like a Roman – like a man – on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can – if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override and what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Modern Library. 2003. p.18, Book 2, #5. Also see The Internet Classics Archive | The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (mit.edu)
Thursday, February 2, 2023
none of them can hurt me
When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own – not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me. No one can implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Modern Library. 2003. p.17, Book 2, #1. Also see The Internet Classics Archive | The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (mit.edu)
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
a keen observer of corporate cultures
As a young man, I was fortunate to spend two years in Spain. The Spanish culture was rich and intriguing, yet also opaque and mysterious. Those years opened my eyes to the world and how other people experience life. One of the most salient lessons was the importance of culture. Culture can be both an enabler, and a stumbling block. It can bind people in unity or pit them against each other. As a result, I’ve been a keen observer of corporate cultures throughout my career. The interplay between leadership and culture is similarly fascinating. Leaders either engender and move forward the culture, or they can drag it down by tacitly allowing their teams to violate it. As practitioners, we know how critical it is to recruit leaders that can articulate how they’ve built up the culture and inspired their teams to do the same….
Meet Edward Stanworth (video). Global Leader Group. Accessed January 10, 2023
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