Giving An A: From Measurement and Scarcity to Possibility and Abundance
GIVING THE A “In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.” Michelangelo ‘Giving an […]
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Failure: A rock bottom solid foundation: JK Rowling on Failure & Imagination
Failure: Seven years after graduating from college international best selling author J.K. Rowling believed she was the biggest failure she knew. She had failed on what she terms an 'epic scale;' divorced young mother, unemployed and penniless. Failure set her free. It stripped away all of the inessentials. She was liberated to do the only […]
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Impoverished Thinking: Bill Strickland Social Entrepreneur
"Poverty is essentially, the acceptance of meager possibility," say's Bill Strickland founder of Manchester Bidwell. Strickland argues that all of us are poor in some fashion. We all suffer from some form of poverty; poverty of creativity, humility, generosity, vision, love, courage, effort, will or perhaps integrity. Sometimes our thinking is impoverished. Sometimes the ghetto is in our own mind. Our own ideas, beliefs about […]
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