Trust, trust, trust! With enough trust, people break their so-called limits and do what was presumed impossible.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.The Prayer of Saint Francis
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in forgiving that we are forgiven,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
In the darkest of times, and there were many, I could never look out at so many wonderful people, engage them in laughter and give-and-take, without walking from the room filled with wonder at the human spirit. They could do anything! Anything! And so can everyone, everywhere, if our minds are open enough, our hearts warm enough, and our spirits strong enough to conceive of institutions that enable us to do so.Dee Hock, on staff meetings at Visa
Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things.Dee Hock
If you think you can’t, why think?Dee Hock
The theology of chaordic organization, writ simple: Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rule and regulation.Dee Hock
The possibility of that which has never occurred cannot be determined by opinion—only by an attempt.Dee Hock
Success isn’t a goal, it’s a tool
Accomplishment is an irrelevant trinket, like a merit badge sitting in box of childhood nostalgia.
Sure, shiny is nice, but at the end of the day, success is just leverage to get things done.
It’s a tool that can be employed to more efficiently make the kind of difference you would like to see in the world, whatever that may be.
On the first version of the &yet site, when it was just footloose and freelancin’ ole me, I wrote, “I’d love to hear about your goals and see if I can help.”
That’s not really a marketing line, it’s what I wanted to do for a living—and what I still want to do. It’s really awesome that three and a half years later I still get to do that.
Back to work!
The five stages of cognitive dissonance
An idea is introduced. Legitimate questions and objections are voiced. What follows are the five stages of cognitive dissonance:
- Defensiveness (and subsequent embarrassment over defensiveness)
- Internal consideration of original counterpoint
- Recognition of validity
- Shame
- Admission of wrong and reconciliation
Or, at least—upon reflection—that’s apparently how *I* do it.