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By James Strock
By James Strock
Generational chauvinism is rampant today. Many if not most people regard their generation as superior to all others. They presume themselves more enlightened than other generations. Such an …
By James Strock
The simplest theory of Warren Buffett is that a lot of his value-add comes from his ability [to combine characteristics that many suppose to be contradictory]. The trick is to be …
By James Strock
Coach John Wooden famously urged everyone to "make every day a masterpiece." Perhaps his most enduring legacy will be his example, his own life as a 'masterpiece of service.' Coach Wooden has a …
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Looking back, a man really has a more objective feeling about himself as a child than he has about his father or mother. He feels as if that child were not the present he, individually, but an …
By James Strock
Ask almost anyone, and they’ll you they’re focused on serving rising generations. Nonetheless, many people are, in actuality, answering more to older generations than they may realize. …
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“There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder… It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who ‘but for the vile guns would have been a valiant soldier.'”
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Who Am I Serving?
How Can I Best Serve?
Am I Making My Unique Contribution?
What Am I Becoming?
“History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve.”