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.
For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.
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