Category Archives: Food For Thought

Anxiety

Posted on April 27, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. – Seth Godin

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Failure Is Good

Posted on April 26, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Most people are afraid of failure.  I know I certainly am at times.  The problem is, failure is often the best way to learn.  When you succeed at something difficult or amorphous, you usually don’t know why: a lot of … Continue reading →

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Ego Is Good

Posted on April 25, 2011 by AJ Kessler

From Seth Godin’s Poke The Box: Somewhere along the way, ego became a nasty word.  It’s not. When our name is on a project, our ego pushes us over the hump and drives us to do even better work.  Ego … Continue reading →

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If You’re Not Curious, You’re Boring

Posted on April 24, 2011 by AJ Kessler

I have no special talent.  I am only passionately curious. -Albert Einstein I really believe curiosity is everything.  Those who aren’t curious about the world are boring and never accomplish anything great.  I can understand how people can go through … Continue reading →

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Now Is A Great Time To Be Young

Posted on April 23, 2011 by AJ Kessler

It seems like every day that I hear how hard it is to be young these days.  There’s no jobs, students are laden with debt, etc. etc. This seems like total bullshit to me.  For example, this NY Times piece … Continue reading →

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Enjoying Museums

Posted on April 22, 2011 by AJ Kessler

I visited the Leopold Museum by myself yesterday, because no one wanted to join me.  The museum was very nice, and absolutely worth a visit if you’re in Vienna.  It houses the largest collection of Egon Schiele’s work in the … Continue reading →

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Overwhelm

Posted on April 21, 2011 by AJ Kessler

In Vienna this week, I’ve had the opportunity to check out quite a few churches.  In the middle of the old city there are maybe a dozen spectacular churches, sporting everything from Gothic to super modern architecture.  The biggest and … Continue reading →

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If You’re Going to Jail, Get There Early

Posted on April 20, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Lo and behold, judges aren’t always rational.  It turns out that judges hearing parole requests start out the day granting about 65% of them.  These numbers dwindle down to about 0% right before a judges break, then pop back up … Continue reading →

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Hired Guns

Posted on April 19, 2011 by AJ Kessler

When Alex Rodriguez wanted a new contract to reflect the fact that he may end up as the all time leader in HR, hits, RBIs, and runs scored, he didn’t negotiate the deal himself.  He hired super-agent Scott Boras, who … Continue reading →

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Being Owned

Posted on April 18, 2011 by AJ Kessler

I’m not in show business because I don’t have to go to the meetings, I’m just not a part of it, I don’t belong to it. When you “belong” to something. You want to think about that word, “belong.” People … Continue reading →

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Being Done

Posted on April 16, 2011 by AJ Kessler

The point of being done is not to finish, but to get other things done. - Cult of Done That feeling of completing some big project is fantastic.  It feels like you’ve pushed a giant stone off your chest.  It should … Continue reading →

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Short and Sweet

Posted on April 15, 2011 by AJ Kessler

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. -Mark Twain Three Sentences (http://three.sentenc.es/) is an intriguing solution to a problem many people don’t even recognize exists.  Emails are often too long, especially … Continue reading →

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Trust

Posted on April 13, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Landed in Veinna, Austria this morning.  I got the immediate feeling of safety, even though the train ticket machine warned about using unlicensed cabs and limos.  I don’t know what it was exactly, maybe it’s a totally false sense of … Continue reading →

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Conservationists Want To Starve Africans

Posted on April 11, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Everyone is an environmentalist to some degree.  At the very least, nobody wants to shit where they eat.  Even if you believe the Earth was put here solely so its inhabitants can exploit it, you don’t think it can be … Continue reading →

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Gossip

Posted on April 10, 2011 by AJ Kessler

Small minds discuss people. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. – Eleanor Roosevelt The explosion of mindless ‘reality’ television has talking heads decrying the state of culture and intellectualism in the United States. They point to shows that … Continue reading →

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