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What can you learn from a cartoon game character? Mario faces challenges and hardships in his pursuit of saving the Princess and saving the day. Guess what? Mario can’t save anyone if he doesn’t move forward and take the occasional leap. In most video games you’ll be challenged and sometimes you’ll fall down and have toContinue reading “Lessons from Super Mario”

We seem to treat many things in our lives as definable with an end point. We’ve all met someone personally and professionally who claimed or acted like they had all the answers. It’s easy with age, experience, education and awards to start to buy in to our own bullshit and the story we tell ourselvesContinue reading “One Never Arrives”

“we suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca Comparatively we live in a fairly blessed time in human history. The average Joe on the street in most countries has more freedom and options available to them, on the whole, than they did in 1920 or 1820. We think of fear as “being afraid”Continue reading “Fear of Failure?/Fear of Success?”

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell Think about any great story you’ve heard. Chances are the main character faces challenges or tests. In some, they will actually enter a cave. This isn’t by accident. No great story can be told without an arc. A character needs toContinue reading “The Cave You Fear to Enter”

Genchi Genbutsu Japanese for “go and see” Don’t talk about the problems. Don’t talk about the issues. Trash the report. Data can’t tell you everything. Go and have a look and see what the hell is going on. Talk to people. Look at things close up. Touch the parts. The boxes. Ask questions. Roll yourContinue reading “Go and see for yourself”

If there’s a key word for our current culture, then it’s “SPEED.” We’ve become accustomed to speed. Right here. Right now. Fast wi-fi Instant streaming Same day deliveries “15 Second Abs” Instant noodles Quick results = success. The end product less traveled. Ancient wisdom said – “Fuck same day delivery!” OR perhaps more likely –Continue reading “Instant vs Long Term”

American Thanksgiving took place this week. I don’t know much about the day or the holiday being from the UK but I do like the idea of “giving thanks*.” Strangely, it’s not something we practice a lot of in general. Sure, we might say “thanks” when we buy a cup of coffee or someone holdsContinue reading “1 Lesson Learned From a Turkey (sort of)”