Who’s To Judge What’s Pure And Wise, And How Can We Be Certain?

Save the world? You can’t be serious.

All along society’s journey, pure and wise people have stepped up, with ideas that ultimately addressed basic human nature.

Common sense is the bedrock. But common sense rarely becomes common practice.

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Emerson Got It Wrong I Think, To Be Misunderstood Is To Be Lonely

Trying to help others transform the way they behave around life-work balance is a lonely space. The harvest is great, but the workers few.

Transforming yourself from a warning into an example will be the hardest thing you’ll ever do. Anyone who tells you differently is lying. I wrote this a year ago…

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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And By Not Being Afraid To Die, I Don’t Mean Being A Martyr Or Hero

Not being afraid to die. I believe you can organize your life in such a way, even if tomorrow was your last day, you’d still be good. No regrets.

Dear Son, I often wonder if my thoughts are radical. Most don’t want to wait until it’s too late to say or do things, but you’d never know by watching them.

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Randy Pausch Said Something In The Last Lecture That Can Really Help Keep Us Going

Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture to help his three very young children know, when they got old enough to wonder, what he valued in life. He had to write it before he died. He didn’t know when he would die, only that it would be soon.

Last July, two years after reading Randy’s book, I shot a short video with a challenge for you. Now, three years after Randy’s unfortunate death, his message is even more important.

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