The Inevitable Deterioration of Desperation Motivation, and What Comes Next

February 14, 2010

Desperation motivation only works until you’re not desperate anymore.
It can’t propel you past a certain point because past that point, you’re not all that afraid. Past that point, you can wait until later to be afraid.
But you want to achieve more than simply not being afraid. You want a margin that goes for more than [...]

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Jamie Oliver, Our Children, and Food

February 13, 2010

Watch this man’s passion. Look and listen, and notice when his voice changes — when he’s close to tears. Notice when he speeds up and slows down, punctuating his words with emotion.
This is what it looks like when a person has meaning in their life.

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Cooperative Competition (and Optimal Impact)

February 12, 2010

The more I examine TED, the more I like it.
My construction of Ideaschema has always been based on following an urge. I keep being surprised when I find things that are similar (or at least similarly aligned) but it’s really not that surprising. The urge I’m following, all on its own, has been based on [...]

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Concern or Joy

February 11, 2010

I have a little mastermind call a couple times a month, and this morning I woke up really tired. “Ah ha,” I said to myself (but not nearly as cheerily as it looks in text) — “This is that feeling of being worn down. This is how I felt right before my knee gave out. [...]

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Healing and Moving On

February 9, 2010

This morning I went running for the very first time since I injured my knee in October. It’s been four months since I had any kind of physical activity that wasn’t specifically rehab. My toes were freezing in my Vibrams (35-degree weather!), but I didn’t care. I was running through a neighborhood I had previously [...]

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