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Stanisław Jerzy Lec: A Life of Extraordinary Resilience
Stanisław Jerzy Lec According to Clifton Fadiman's introduction to Lec's book Unkempt Thoughts (Myśli nieuczesane): "Lec has led the strange (to us), hunted, haunted life of thousands of Central European intellectuals, their experience inexorably shaped by war and revolution. At the outbreak of the war he was imprisoned in a German concentration camp. There he stayed until July 1943 when the camp was liquidated by mass executions. Escaping in a German uniform, he succeeded in...
Seth Godin on Compliance vs. Initiative
The Educational Challenge Compliance is simple to measure, simple to test for and simple to teach. Punish non-compliance, reward obedience and repeat. Initiative is very difficult to teach to 28 students in a quiet classroom. It's difficult to brag about in a school board meeting. And it's a huge pain in the neck to do reliably. Schools like teaching compliance. They're pretty good at it. To top it off, until recently the customers of a...
Advice On Life
In three words I can sum up everything that I learned about life, "It goes on." Life, what a wonderful thing! Copyright © 1999 Rachel Stephens
The Dancing Gorilla
Can I have your attention for a few minutes? Great, that is exactly what I want to talk about today, getting people's attention! I'd also like to talk about what should happen once you get people's attention. In a meeting a few weeks ago I talked about my "dancing gorilla" experience when I lived in Oregon which I hoped would effectively articulate where most companies are from a communications standpoint and what it takes to...
Going The Extra Mile
Nine times out of ten, when I start my day, I see the following set of trash cans as I arrive to the office. I keep the trash cans under my desk on the right-most side, which is exposed to the hallway so that the person who empties the trash/recycling can access them easier. Every time I see someone hasn't gone the extra one or two steps to put the bins back under my desk...