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.
The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the humanβat the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.
My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state... It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.
You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.
Nothing, not even human life, is more precious to us than our myths about ourselves.
A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."
Murder will out, this my conclusion.
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