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Using AI to Develop Your Mission Statement?
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Is Happiness Sustainable?
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There’s a Bathroom on the Right
Among Us a Sage - Ryan Holiday
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Thomas Noble Thomas Noble

Steeling

I am a strong believer in the law of compensation. Emerson was one of many sages who articulated it. It goes back, however, much further. The Taoists (600 BCE?) opined that the universe is made up of opposites.

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Thomas Noble Thomas Noble

A Dose of Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher during the halcyon days of German philosophy. Kant, Fichte, Hegel: those guys. As you can tell, every day for Art was a bad-hair day. This may have colored his thinking, but we will save that discussion for another day.

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Melissa Hostetter Melissa Hostetter

Teleos

Teleology ebbs and flows in popularity.

The Greeks, Aristotle, predominantly, believed that nature was teleological.

Teleology, loosely translated, means that everything in nature is programmed to move towards a specific end.

An acorn’s teleos is to become an oak tree.

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