There is an urban myth about a CEO who was asked by his team how they were supposed to pull off an impossible project at work. He replied, “Be awesome.” When a senior member of the team asked what they should do if “being awesome” wasn’t enough, the CEO replied, “Be awesomer!”
In one of his final interviews, the author/philosopher Aldous Huxley was asked to sum up his life’s work. What he said was this…
There is a line from the Greek poet Archilochus which is generally translated as:
The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing…
There is a truth behind life that often gets lost in the swirl of prescriptions and advice for better ways to live that fill our heads and crowd out our own innate wisdom and common sense. Join me to explore and experience the simplicity of that wisdom and the wisdom of simplicity!
I was having lunch with a friend who’d survived a heart attack a couple of years ago. When I asked him if he had any dietary restrictions, he shared the story of going to his doctor post-coronary with a written list of questions about what he should or shouldn’t eat going forward…
