Keep Learning – Live Passionately – Be Willing to be Misunderstood
The title drew me to David J. Hand’s book: The Improbability Principle, Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day. I love looking for coincidences; call them signs – they inform my worldview and actions I take – put together with math, even better. This book is about statistics, math; probabilities! My fascination with …
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“I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” ― Albert Einstein People . . . you who listen to the still voice inside – your intuition, your instinct; are you getting nudges that something’s afoot? My practice for over 30 years includes paying attention …
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There’s enough for everyone! Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler hooked me with their book Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think. Let’s focus on the good news – not doom, gloom, death & destruction (aka the 6 o’clock News). They reeled me in with statistician Hans Rosling’s TED Talk “The Best Stats You’ve Ever …
Seth Godin explains how to catch “the Wily Fox” in The Icarus Deception.” “Build an eight-foot-long wooden fence in the forest. Lay out some bait and then go away for a week. The fox is too crafty to be caught in a simple trap, and he will smell you and avoid the fence for days. …
