There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
Clayton M. ChristensenRead
I'd been raised Mormon, but there comes a time where you are not following what you've been taught, but discovering for yourself if it's true.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of personal exploration and validating beliefs beyond teachings.
Clayton M. Christensen reflects on the journey of personal belief and discovery that transcends traditional teachings. It suggests that as individuals mature, they must engage in their own exploration to determine the truth of their beliefs, rather than simply accepting what they have been taught. This process of questioning and discovering is essential for authentic understanding.
In practice
During a philosophy discussion on personal beliefs.
There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.
Companies, in fact, are specifically organized to under-invest in disruptive innovations! This is one reason why we often suggest that companies set up separate teams or groups to commercialize disruptive innovations. When disruptive innovations have to fight with other innovations for resources, they tend to lose out.
There is no evidence that success in business will make us happy people or allow us to have happy families.
By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body.
The breakthrough innovations come when the tension is greatest and the resources are most limited. That's when people are actually a lot more open to rethinking the fundamental way they do business.
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.
The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples' cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?
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