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Comment on For National Poetry Month by Marilyn Duncan

Marilyn Duncan — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 18:10:22 +0000

Clunk in the gut moment.. you captured the continuous movement problem.

Comment on On hard work by mailorderpreacher

mailorderpreacher — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 14:32:52 +0000

Great article/speech–a lot said eloquently in that very short passage. Thanks for sharing!

Comment on On hard work by Beth Smerdon

Beth Smerdon — Sun, 13 Oct 2013 05:49:30 +0000

This post resonates with me, as I know it will do so with Scott. We’ve both made peace (or are just about there) with the fact that we’re not quite living the life we’d pictured for ourselves, and yet, it’s a fine life. Yes, some things would be changed if some things could be changed, but the reality is that they can’t be. And that’s mostly OK. // Will look forward to reading more entries.

Comment on On hard work by Steve

Steve — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 20:52:02 +0000

“When we ask a person who has experienced success to describe her world view, we tend to assume that the success was caused by the world view, not that the world view was caused by the success. Some minimal reflection should remind us that the reverse may be truer. No one ever asks the person who trained as hard her whole life and missed making the Olympic team twice what she has learned about life, though it might be more instructive.”

That is really, really good stuff. And a great example. Outgoing Fed Chair Ben Bernanke gave a speech on the wrongness of a meritocracy to Princeton earlier this year. I think you’ll find it worth reading:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/06/03/ben_bernanke_on_meritocracy.html