understand your mistakes (Andy)

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 • You must understand your mistakes.
   Study the hell out of them.  You're not going to have the chance of making the same mistake again ── you can't step into the river again at the same place and the same time ── but you will have the chance of making a similar mistake.

 • It's not enough to make time for your children.
   There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it.
   You can't run your family like a company.  It doesn't work.

 • The most powerful tool of all is the word no.


source:
         Andy Grove: what I've learned
         by Mike Sager
         Jan 29, 2007
         esquire.com

   (Andy Grove: what I've learned | by Mike Sager | Jan 29, 2007 | esquire.com )
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  p.196
    You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
     ——Heraclitus

    (Quotations of wit and wisdom: know or listen to those who know / John W. Gardner & Francesca Gardner Reese, copyright © 1975, 808.882, ——, p.196)
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The word rhei (cf. rheology) is the Greek word for "to stream", and is etymologically related to Rhea according to Plato's Cratylus.[38]

       • πάντα ῥεῖ (panta rhei) "everything flows"[36]

   The quote from Heraclitus appears in Plato's Cratylus twice; in 401d as:[40]

       • τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν

       • Ta onta ienai te panta kai menein ouden

       • "All entities move and nothing remains still"


      and in 402a[41]

       • "πάντα χωρεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει" καὶ "δὶς ἐς τὸν αὐτὸν ποταμὸν οὐκ ἂν ἐμβαίης"

       • Panta chōrei kai ouden menei kai dis es ton auton potamon ouk an embaies

       • "Everything changes and nothing remains still ... and ... you cannot step twice into the same stream"[42]


   source: en.wikipedia.org   
           Heraclitus;  
           Heraclitus of Ephesus (Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος, Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. 535 – c. 475 BC).  
           a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, and a native of the city of Ephesus,[2] then part of the Persian Empire, in what is now called present-day Efes, Turkey.
   ([ language wise, modern Greek is different from ancient Greek ])
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 even better if you can learn from other people mistake
 to talk with the dead (to learn from the past)
 conversation with the dead (to learn from history)
 dialog with the rocks (geology)
 relationship with the soil (farmer)
 relationship with the land (native American indian)  
 conversation with plants and trees (botany)
 the land is sacred (traditional society)
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Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill ; with Ali Wyne, Lee Kuan Yew : the grand master's insights on China, the United States, and the world, 2013

pp.137─138
History does not repeat itself in the same way each time, but certain trends and consequences are constants.  If you do not know history, you think short term.  If you know history, you think medium and long term.27
    To understand the present and anticipate the future, one must know enough of the past, enough to have a sense of the history of a people.  One must appreciate not merely what took place, but, more especially, why it took place and in that particular way.  This is true of individuals, as it is for nations.  The personal experience of a person determines whether he likes or hates things, welcomes them or fears them when they recur.  So it is with nations:  it is the collective memory of a people, the composite learning from past events which led to successes or disasters that makes a people welcome or fear new events, because they recognize parts in new events which have similarities with past experience.  Young people learn best from personal experience.  The lesson their elders have learned at great pain and expense can add to the knowledge of the young and help them to cope with problems and dangers they had not faced before; but such learning, second hand, is never as vivid, as deep, or as durable as that which was personally experienced.28
p.138
    During the Vietnam war, the Americans found that their lack of historical depth of understanding of the people and the country was a serious disadvantage.  American universities like Yale, Cornell, Stanford, and think tanks like the RAND corporation quickly assembled top minds in cognate disciplines to develop this expertise.  Had they done this before they were drawn into the Vietnam war, they might well have chosen not to draw the battle line in Vietnam, but in Cambodia.29

26.  
27.   
28.  Lee Kuan Yew, “History is not made the way it is written”, speech given at the People's Action Party's 25th anniversary rally, singapore, january 20, 1980.
29.  Lee Kuan Yew, speech given at the ceremony of admission to the degree of doctor of laws at Melbourne university, melbourne, april 21, 1994.

   (Lee Kuan Yew : the grand master's insights on China, the United States, and the world / interviews and selections by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill ; with Ali Wyne ; foreword by by Henry A. Kissinger., (Belfer center studies in international security), includes bibliographical references, 1. world politics., D31.L44  2013, 303.4909'0512──dc23, )
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think big
think critically
focus on training your self to be more engaged in the world

if the future has things that will happen
that are totally unprecedented for us
that actually has precedent in the past
there have been other people
other civilizations who have encountered things
which were totally unprecedented
so although the actual event is on we have
no experience with  
we can from history learn something about
how societies, how organizations

school cannot make you into a fortune teller
so you will not be able to know the future
but if you know enough different variations
and precedence
it will allow you to intelligently anticipate


source:

how do we train them constantly
to work against whatever dangers they tend to be
falling into and whatever dangers we're actively
creating that we therefore need to actively work
against

more involved in teaching people to think critically
and saying to students
okay, if you want to go to wall street
think big,
because something fundamentally is wrong
something's right but something is wrong is fundamentally wrong
and again, we don't know what it is
but your generation has to figure it out

more explicitly what I mean to say is
the following
I think we have lived in a period
in a period that I suspect is about
to come to a close
in which we've really thought for quite
a while now that we had fundamentally
figured out most of the big problems

and I'll use a strong word here
complacency that has set in

 • what if in fact this complacency
has been incredibly dangerous
it's been a period in which we
have failed as human beings
to grapple with some of the fundamental problems
that have been growing in world over the past few
decades
 • what if by being so complacent
we've been allowing those problems
to grow and grow and grow
 • what if precisely by allowing them to
grow by failing to even realize they were problems
we have been directly responsible
for the fact that many of these problems
have reached a point where it may be honestly difficult
for human beings to be able to deal with them
and
 • what if the 2008 crisis was nothing compared
to the crisis that we're going to face

and if my generation has and I fear it has failed
to confront problems
your generation may not frankly have the luxury
to fail as we have
the world may not allow another generation
to miss the boat
it may be up to you to see if this world can be saved
from the ecological and likely political crisis
that it could very well be facing

think big
think critically
focus on training your self to be more engaged in the world

if the future has things that will happen
that are totally unprecedented for us
that actually has precedent in the past
there have been other people
other civilizations who have encountered things
which were totally unprecedented
so although the actual event is on we have
no experience with  
we can from history learn something about
how societies, how organizations

school cannot make you into a fortune teller
so you will not be able to know the future
but if you know enough different variations
and precedence
it will allow you to intelligently anticipate

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