Just a couple weeks ago — on December 14, 2009, to be exact — one of my favorite thinkers and bloggers, Seth Godin, released a new FREE eBook called What Matters Now. It’s a PDF collection of short, topical blurbs from some of the best writers and idea people around.
I’m sure our collective parents all collectively meant well when they collectively told us that we could “be anything we wanted to be” when we grew up.
Unfortunately, this is a lie.
Reprinted from Mike Morrison’s fantastic email newsletter (November 4, 2009).
The path toward mastery is not only critical to achieving a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives — it is essential to creating meaningful change as a leader.
We tend to think of the process of achieving mastery in terms of a “huge”…
Once upon a time, in the thick of the American industrial revolution, a highly respected and influential leader is said to have exclaimed:
Why is it that I always get the whole person when what I really want is a pair of hands?
That leader was Henry Ford…
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the industrious out of it.
You don’t multiply wealth by dividing it.
Government cannot give anything to anybody that it doesn’t first take from somebody else.