BlankScreen S2 E11
In Episode Eleven, I talk about the most fantastic perspective that you can get when astronauts fly to outer space and look back at our Earth as a tiny, fragile ball of light hanging in a black void. They experience what’s called the overview effect. As Michael Collins from space mission, Apollo 11, wrote, “The thing that really surprised me was that the Earth projected an air of fragility, and why? I don’t know why. I don’t know to this day. I had a feeling it’s tiny. It’s shiny. It’s beautiful. It’s home. And it’s fragile.” The actor William Shatner,…
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For Season Two, Episode Ten, I went to Ask Jeeves, and it didn’t tell me that anyone else had said this before me. So, I’m going to write it down. I’ll definitely attribute it to someone else, but I’m not exactly sure who might have said it. In life, decisions are simple when you know your values and your priorities. I strongly encourage everyone I know to make a short list of their values and their priorities, one through three, maybe one through five and then live your life in alignment with those values and your priorities. When you are…
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Welcome to BlankScreen. Throughout the first couple of seasons of blank screen, I’ve been asking a lot of questions like, where do you come up with your ideas? And what’s your favorite rule to live by? Well, I’ve already introduced the Golden Rule versus the platinum rule, which is treat others the way they want to be treated. I also have a rule that I live by that I thought of with my wife as we were remodeling our house. We decided, rather than blowing through stuff, just to get it done, we would do it once, and we would…
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