In Tribe of Mentors, Adam Fisher penned an amazing piece of advice: Just learn how to learn. Then you can always figure out the next thing you will need to know. There are two schools of thought here. You can either be the jack of all trades / polymath type, or you can delegate. Delegation […]
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Carpe Diem
Carpe Diem! Seize the day! Preached by many, practiced by few. What is not often discussed is that “Carpe diem” was only the beginning of a longer passage in Horace’s most famous of odes. The latter part of the passage offers just as much to the reader: quam minimum credula postero Loosely translated: “putting as […]
Harvey On Golf As Therapy
Mr. Penick probably isn’t far from the truth with this observation. Picture taken last year on the back of the 3rd green at the “Bay Course” at Willowbend Country Club.
The Sanctuary
Find your house of worship…
Eduardo Galeano on Wine
Churchhill On Beer
Most people hate the taste of beer—to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice. -Winston Churchhill
Buffett on over-engineering
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. -Warren Buffett
Make Music
We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers And sitting by desolate streams;— World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Shocking
Einstein on Reading
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.” – Albert Einstein