10/30/16
RMB Effective Achievers
Dear
Rita Mae Brown,
As
much as I am enjoying regular escapes into Crozet with my current Rita Mae
Brown and Sneaky Pie Brown collaboration, Catch as Cat Can, I am constantly
drawn to the seek answers outside of my own sandbox.
Over
the last week Joshua Cooper Ramo narrated his The Age of the Unthinkable Why the
New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and What We Can Do About It as
I drove to and from work and errands.
After
listening carefully for the “What we can do about it” part, the answers are
directed at methods long held by effective achievers.
Try,
try, and try again. To accomplish one must often attempt multiple paths to the desired
outcome.
Do
unto others as you would have them do unto you. In other words, as you give you
receive.
Empower
others. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
eats every day.
When
we are tested, when our limits are stretched, we become stronger, more creative
and inventive.
Everything
you do affects something else.
Multiple
examples are given to illustrate these concepts, from the frontlines of war to
the frontlines of medicine. He emphasizes that what we know to be true today,
will change tomorrow as our knowledge broadens and one element affects another.
Why
did I need 8 hours of narration to tell me concepts I already knew? Because
life is a story that we live. Everything we learn, we learn by absorbing other
stories.
Knowing
the concepts is not the same as implementing them and to implement them, we
need to see how they fit in the story. We need repetition, to be reminded to do
our best, because it does count. It does matter.
From
person to person, nation to nation, generation to generation, it does matter.
Onward
and upward,
Loraine
