“The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything.” That’s a quote from Warren Buffett—the Oracle of Omaha, kind of a smart guy.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. To me, that means that all those who have gone before us, and whom we paid attention to and learned from, have put us in a much higher place than we started from.
Heart, mind, and philosophy. Why would I mention those three things? Well, because someone once asked me, “If you had only three people to invite to dinner, who would they be?” For me, Heart would be Mother Theresa, Mind would be Einstein, and Philosophy would be my favorite philosopher, Plato.
A few years ago, I read a book with a sort of funny title called, Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer. I think that was back in 2011. The book discusses a concept known as memory palaces. I won’t take you too far down into this, but it theorizes about how ancient civilizations and even more modern people, before printed books became common, passed down stories
I recently attended the Abundance 360 conference and virtual reality (VR) is one of the things we explored. You may have seen the movie, Ready Player One, which came out in early 2018. The movie follows a particular young man in the virtual world, doing many astounding things. He returns to this horrible life in what amounts to a vertical trailer park, for lack of a better way to put it. Hollywood has a way of playing those things out to get the maximum entertainment value from them.
Remember going paperless? I kind of laugh at that because it seems as if we’ve got even more paper now than we did before. But I know that’s not really true because you have your smartphones and tablet devices and you don’t typically print things off of those. You’re doing more things digitally with no paper associated with them at all. But paper is still with us and probably will be around for a long time to come.
“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10.” That’s a quote from Bill Gates and it applies to a number of different trends and situations, but I’m thinking about Blockchain, in particular. Other things in the past, such as railroads back in the 1830s and dotcoms in the late ‘90s, among others, are examples of this tendency to overestimate and underestimate the magnitude of change.
Back in 2000, a movie came out called Pay It Forward. It starred young actor Haley Joel Osment, who went on to play a leading role in the movie Sixth Sense as well. The Pay It Forward story shows how Osment’s character, Trevor McKinney, tries to make the world a better place. The movie made quite an impact, even serving as the impetus for a “pay it forward” movement that lasted a while afterward.
It was a busy year, to put it mildly. If you were to only listen to news outlets, 2018 may have sounded like the end was near! However, a lot of good things happened, as they always do. They may not have all been news headliners, but people around the world were not only doing good things, they were searching for the good in the world as well.
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