All the World’s a Stage
If you are an actor in your own private movie, so is everyone you encounter. You may be the star of your movie but just an extra in theirs.
Try to appreciate some of their drama before you act out yours.
–Tony Mayo
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for,
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love,
for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon.
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or
have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,
without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it.
I want to know if (more…)
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Inside, I’ve got to feel I’m the best, but if I tell you I’m the best, then I’m a fool.
–Bubba Smith RIP
Responsibility’s daunting allure: Most duly claim to want it but few want to fully claim it.
—Tony Mayo
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, then he who believes what is wrong.
–Thomas Jefferson Notes on the State of Virginia page 49
Medal of Honor winner, “most powerful force in the world is not hatred for the enemy but love for the man next to you.” Click here to see story on this blog.
It’s like a deal you can make with the universe: I’ll give up greed for freedom. Then you can start putting your time to good use.
Progress is not made by finding the ‘right answers,’ but by asking meaningful questions.
–Winograd & Flores P. 13 Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
To sell don’t just show: involve. Video here
We’re none of us perfect, so I’ve found more use for the apology than the pillory.
–Tony Mayo
Career Insanity: do same thing over and over expecting same result. You must get better just to stay even. See the video here.
Innovation Cycle: obscurity, ridicule, argument, victory.
–TonyMayo
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©2011 Tony Mayo
Real Progress
Philosophical endeavors turn in a constant circle, arriving again at a point where they have already been. Thereupon materials now lying in the dust can perhaps be processed into a magnificent structure.
–Immanuel Kant, 1781
Critique of Pure Reason
Progress exists only in the realm of what is ultimately unimportant for human existence. Philosophy does not evolve in the sense of progress. Rather, philosophy is an attempt at developing and clarifying the same few problems; philosophy is the independent, free, and thoroughgoing struggle of human existence with the darkness that can break out at any time in that existence. And every clarification opens new abysses.
–Martin Heidegger, 1927
Phenomenological Interpretation of
Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Ultimately we are seeking a better understanding of what it means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the ‘right answers,’ but by asking meaningful questions — ones that evoke an openness to new ways of being.
–Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores, 1986
Understanding Computers and Cognition:
A New Foundation for Design
Page 13
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A mood of resignation is an evasion of responsibility. –Tony Mayo
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you. –Jean-Paul Sartre (attributed)
Unless you love, your life will flash by. —Terrence Malick
We have career lattice, not ladder. People move not just up or out but sideways. —Deloitte CEO: Salzberg
Battles & businesses have been lost in the classroom but are won only in the field. –Tony Mayo
Career Insanity: doing the same thing over and over expecting the same results. Today, you must get better just to stay even. –Tony Mayo
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Why I’m Here
Why I’m Here
by Jacqueline Berger
Because my mother was on a date
with a man in the band, and my father,
thinking she was alone, asked her to dance.
And because, years earlier, my father
dug a foxhole but his buddy
sick with the flu, asked him for it, so he dug
another for himself. In the night
the first hole was shelled.
I’m here because my mother was twenty-seven
and …
It’s right to praise the random,
the tiny god of probability that brought us here,
to praise not meaning, but feeling, the still-warm
sky at dusk, the light that lingers and the night
that when it comes is gentle.
“Why I’m Here” by Jacqueline Berger, from The Gift That Arrives Broken. © Autumn House Press, 2010. (buy now)
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What am I attached to? I can free myself from identifying with this outcome and turn my attention toward my true values. –Top Executive Coach Tony Mayo
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King Jr.
The first rule of long-term planning is, “Survive the short term.”
Listen before speaking, empathize before judging, join before leading. –CEO Executive Coach Tony Mayo
Why am I soft in the middle now? The rest of my life is so hard. —Paul Simon
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We are what we do
Karma simply means “action” and is derived from the verbal root kr which mean “to do” or “to make.”
The self is plastic, a malleable clay being molded each moment by intention. Just as our scientists are discovering not only how the mind is shaped by the brain but now, too, how the brain is shaped by the mind, so the Buddha described long ago the interdependent process by which intentions are conditioned by dispositions and dispositions in turn are conditioned by intentions.
–Andrew Olendzki
Karma in Action
Tricycle.
human good turns out to be activity
–Aristotle
Nicomachean Ethics
I.1098a13
Action, including speech, promises responsibility
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Attempted to assassinate Hitler and
died in a Nazi prison while writing
Prisoner for God: letters and papers
Commitment Creates a Clearing for Cooperation
… but when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money— booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves, too. A whole stream of events issues from (more…)
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