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We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.

We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

— The Creative Code: The Mysteries of the Creative World Revealed by Noam Manella

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  2. There is a certain zone of satisfaction where your input and effort provide an acceptable amount of satisfaction or outcome. If you expend too many resources and effort, you move out of the zone—too little outcome. If you expend too little, you move out of the zone—too little outcome. If you expect too much or too few results, you also move out of the zone. Seeing the world clearly requires having a clear understanding of cause and effect. — Mental Models: 30 Thinking Tools that Separate the Average From the Exceptional. Improved Decision-Making, Logical Analysis, and Problem-Solving by Peter […]
  3. Two inner forces can drive a person to use all of his capabilities. He can be competence-driven or achievement-driven. The former concerns itself with job or task mastery. A virtuoso violinist who continues to practice day after day is obviously moved by something other than a need for esteem and recognition. He works to sharpen his own skill, trying to do a little bit better this time than the time before, just as a teenager on a skateboard practices the same trick over and over again. The same teenager may not sit still for ten minutes to do homework, […]
  4. Imagine a world in which managers and employees have honest conversations about each other’s goals and time tables; where managers and team members define jobs that match their values and aspirations; and in which even employees who move on to a different employer maintain an ongoing, mutually beneficial relationship with the company. It’s a world—and a culture of employment—that’s already taken shape in Silicon Valley, and we expect its principles will spread to all industries and across the globe. Mutual investment creates massive value for companies and for employees. Even if the effects of the alliance stopped there, it […]
  5. The story of ideas that fly is really the story of the people who adopt them. It’s how their narratives and the realisation of their hopes, dreams and aspirations collide with what we create that makes an innovation meaningful or helps an idea take off. Start there. Create generously, succeed wildly—show us our wings. — Meaningful: The Story of Ideas That Fly by Bernadette Jiwa Source: Amazon Kindle […]

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