Your identity is what you’ve committed yourself to

August 25th, 2008 — tonymayo

John W. GardnerMeaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things you believe in, out of the things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something.

The ingredients are there. You are the only one who can put them together into

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Memento Motive

August 15th, 2008 — mayogenuine

Gandhi

I can only hope you will realize the import of what you are doing. And if you do, your path will be easy–easy because you will take delight in difficulties and you will laugh in hope when everybody is in despair.

–Gandhi

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Warren Bennis on Leadership

August 6th, 2008 — tonymayo

The Economist newspaper has an excellent summary of Warren Bennis’s work on leadership, adapted from their book: Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus. Bennis makes a strong case for leadership as something to be nurtured and learned.

Four things an effective leader must embody, communicate, and encourage are:

  • Vision
  • Meaning
  • Trust
  • Self-knowledge

Mr. Bennis and I share, along with many other management consultants and executive coaches, a debt to the pioneering work of Werner Erhard’s EST and Landmark Education.

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Rilke Poem on Spirituality

August 4th, 2008 — mayogenuine


I live my life in growing orbits

That move out over the things of the world

Perhaps I can never achieve the last,

but that will be my attempt.

I am circling around God,

Around the ancient tower.

And I have been circling for a thousand years,

And I still don’t know

If I am a falcon or

a great storm.


Letters to a Young PoetLetters to a Young Poet Cover

Rainer Maria RilkeRainer (René) Maria Rilke

1875-1926 Austro-German poet



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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values

July 31st, 2008 — mayogenuine

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
by Robert M. Pirsig


Robert Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a deep and impressive work that has sold millions of copies and stayed in print in many languages for over twenty years. I read it for the first time when I was about forty years old. It was good to wait until I was ready for it. I am not sure I can recommend the book, but I am glad I experienced it.

Mr. Pirsig presents the story of his search for the roots of deep

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