Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
— Salvador Dali

Why are these ideas so Dangerous?


Because they violate the status quo,

and Unsettle us from from our comfy seats in the Ivory Tower.


If our work doesn't have revolutionary consequences, then why are WE doing it?

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Ideas

Boy in the Box

Unreal

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The Dilemma

Here we GO! It's almost time for the January 14th release and I couldn't be more excited.

It's either going well or not

So a quick thought before the day ramps up...
What is going well for you right now? What things show constant returns on your expelled energy?
Two things that don't work for me right now. As in, TODAY.

• Biting my fingernails

Deep stuff, I know. But sometimes it takes narrowing in on specific things that bring you Y output of value for X input of energy.

I see it like this. I exhaust energy, albeit a small amount, by using my teeth to clamp down on my fingernails. Dumb. Primitive. Makes me look like a toddler. In fact, I actually DID this when I was a toddler. Regardless of the therapist mumbo-crap about why this habit started as a toddler, I am an adult human being with (relatively) significant intellectual capability. I ought to be able to curb this habit. And I'm going to. I'm going to post photos of my improving fingernails once a week. 

If you engage in habits that aren't giving you a substantially productive return on your energy investment, remove that variable from your life.

Things that are working for me:

Drinking more coffee. 

Boom.

Expert at nothing; skilled at many

I want to do some really cool stuff in 2011. It will be awesome. I am going to begin a list and add to it as I come up with ideas.

1. Learn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (Info HERE)
2. Skydive. I've never done it
3. Drive to the East coast
4. Publish something I wrote
5. Run the 2011 Chicago Marathon and beat my 2010 time (and actually train for this one)
6. Turn off my cell phone for a week
7. Write an e-book

More later.

Attack life. It will kill you anyways. 

:-) 

Charlie

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