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Lessons From a Different “Prince”

By Scott on June 9th 2010 in Philosophy 1 comment

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“The Little Prince” – a tale many of you read as a child – is one of the best books to learn about life, and more importantly, never losing your sense of child-like curiosity and imagination. Today, too much is made of living a pattern that is “tried & tested” to get you the picket fence, country club membership, leased Mercedes, and a comfortable retirement. The problem is that this “life” pounds the curiosity and imagination out of people. So here are three lessons I learned from “The Little Prince.”

Excruciating Minutes

By Scott on May 13th 2010 in Self Improvement 12 comments

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I recently heard a speech by a running coaching about marathoning (disclaimer: I am not a runner). He spoke about the idea that every runner hits “the wall,” and then experiences what he called “The Excruciating Minutes” – that one mile or few minutes after you hit the wall that exposes who you are, and makes you examine what you are made of.

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