THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IS PAVED WITH SIGNED SHOES

photo by Keith Allison

Like, I know there is an important basketball game tonight.  LeBron and Curry will both be there.  And all that.  But let's talk about Nike dropping the ball (lol - pun - metaphor) and not keeping megastar Steph Curry in their line-up.  "Nike hit him with a pitch meeting ... hastily thrown together ... " with Curry's name spelled wrong and Kevin Durant's name still on presentation slides.   The consensus is Nike blew it and Under Armor won with Curry signed through 2024.    Anywhooo . . .      story     

Principle in the type:  "Still, accomplishment is unreliable.  'Succeeding,' whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that 'succeeding' will take you your whole life, while the big questions go untended."    George Saunders

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photo by Jason Weinberger

Hey, it was Mozart's birthday yesterday?  You knew?  Mozart wrote hundreds and hundreds of pieces of music.  Some pretty good stuff too.  Of course geniuses had more time on their hands back then.  They weren't endlessly watching Robot Wars, or The Kardashians.    When Mozart moved away to Vienna, it was after he'd been "fired for the third time . . . decided enough was enough," and left to be a freelancer.  Sometimes we gotta do what we gotta do.    story           

Principle in the type:  'That luminous part of you that exists beyond personality--your soul, if you will--is as bright and shining as any that has ever been.  Bright as Shakespeare's, bright as Gandhi's, bright as Mother Teresa's.   Clear away everything that keeps you separate from this secret, luminous place.  Believe that it exists, come to know it better, nurture it, share its fruits tirelessly."    George Saunders