It was the deadliest string of shark attacks the world has ever seen. In 2011, sharks in Réunion, a beautiful island, way out in the Indian Ocean started biting people way more than ever before and with lunatic violence. The epidemic forced local surfers, politicians, and business owners into a proxy war with ocean lovers and conservationists worldwide, where long simmering tensions boiled over. Réunion: Shark Attacks in Paradise is the story of what happened on this beautiful island, and t ...
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Getting It Right In Realtime May Mean Changing Your Mind
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“In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ― Mark Twain Twain was right. I know the feeling well, having surrounded myself with books for most of my adult life. Only recently did I rid myself of the vast array of books that surrounded me. But it was time and I have no regrets. Hopefully, somebody else is benefiting from the thousands of books I donated not long ago to a local library. Absorbing wisdom is an interesting phrase used by Twain in that quote. He didn't say knowledge. There's a difference. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein Here at LTW I've long given my personal definition of wisdom as the model from which each podcast episode is cast - getting it right in realtime. I stand by that definition, but that doesn't mean it's the only kind of wisdom. Sometimes we learn wisdom because we got it wrong - the first time. Now the question is, "Will we get it right the next time?" Fools don't. Wise people do. Simply put, wise people learn, and learn faster. “Never laugh at live dragons.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien For our 45th wedding anniversary Rhonda bought me a toy dragon. For some unknown reason, I've dubbed him Carl. Carl is dragon number 3 inside The Yellow Studio. The first was found many years ago in Clearwater, Florida while on a business trip. I found him in a store one day and kept going back daily wrestling with whether or not to purchase him. He's ceramic and heavy. I was flying home and traveling as light as possible. By end of my last day there, I intentionally waited until close to closing time, walked in, grabbed him and made the store owner an offer, which he accepted. I can't remember how much he was priced originally or why I even decided he might not be worth that amount, but pleased with my discounted price I brought him home to the Yellow Studio where he's been a fixture for many years (over 20). You can likely figure out why I liked him so much. ;) https://leaningtowardwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Orange-Dragon.mp4 The first actual toy dragon came from the same place as Carl, a toy merchant at a local flea market in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Jimmie. For over 35 years Jimmie has been collecting and peddling toys. Ebay and the Internet have made profit harder to come by for Jimmie, but daily he mans his booth in this flea market jam-packed with toys of all ilks, including an occasional dragon. Carl and this unnamed orange dragon came from Jimmie. I rather love them all. And recently told Jimmie to be on the look out for whatever might turn into my 3rd purchase from Jimmie. These are the dragons who now reside Inside The Yellow Studio. And I'm always reminded of that Tolkien quote, "Never laugh at live dragons." I suspect one's first encounter with a live dragon might prove so fearful that a wise person would learn to not laugh, but to take the dragon seriously. So it is with learning wisdom. We may not get it right the first time, but we'd best get it right the next time lest it prove fatal. As much as we may want to get it right in realtime, that often doesn't happen. And it's mostly okay. Except when it's not. For years I've shared with you my parental advice, "Don't make a mistake from which you can't recover." We never wanted our children to make a mistake so foolish that it caused permanent or long-lasting damage. We trained them and hoped they'd learn from their mistakes, but mostly...we wanted those mistake to be ones from which they could recover or find redemption from. It wasn't just parental advice, it was what we tried to accomplish in our own lives, as their parents. Yes, we sometimes got it wrong, but with the things that mattered the most - those things that are eternal - we got it completely right. We leaned hard into providing the spiritual food our children needed to grow up strong,
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“In a good bookroom, you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ― Mark Twain Twain was right. I know the feeling well, having surrounded myself with books for most of my adult life. Only recently did I rid myself of the vast array of books that surrounded me. But it was time and I have no regrets. Hopefully, somebody else is benefiting from the thousands of books I donated not long ago to a local library. Absorbing wisdom is an interesting phrase used by Twain in that quote. He didn't say knowledge. There's a difference. “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” ― Albert Einstein Here at LTW I've long given my personal definition of wisdom as the model from which each podcast episode is cast - getting it right in realtime. I stand by that definition, but that doesn't mean it's the only kind of wisdom. Sometimes we learn wisdom because we got it wrong - the first time. Now the question is, "Will we get it right the next time?" Fools don't. Wise people do. Simply put, wise people learn, and learn faster. “Never laugh at live dragons.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien For our 45th wedding anniversary Rhonda bought me a toy dragon. For some unknown reason, I've dubbed him Carl. Carl is dragon number 3 inside The Yellow Studio. The first was found many years ago in Clearwater, Florida while on a business trip. I found him in a store one day and kept going back daily wrestling with whether or not to purchase him. He's ceramic and heavy. I was flying home and traveling as light as possible. By end of my last day there, I intentionally waited until close to closing time, walked in, grabbed him and made the store owner an offer, which he accepted. I can't remember how much he was priced originally or why I even decided he might not be worth that amount, but pleased with my discounted price I brought him home to the Yellow Studio where he's been a fixture for many years (over 20). You can likely figure out why I liked him so much. ;) https://leaningtowardwisdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Orange-Dragon.mp4 The first actual toy dragon came from the same place as Carl, a toy merchant at a local flea market in Hot Springs, Arkansas, Jimmie. For over 35 years Jimmie has been collecting and peddling toys. Ebay and the Internet have made profit harder to come by for Jimmie, but daily he mans his booth in this flea market jam-packed with toys of all ilks, including an occasional dragon. Carl and this unnamed orange dragon came from Jimmie. I rather love them all. And recently told Jimmie to be on the look out for whatever might turn into my 3rd purchase from Jimmie. These are the dragons who now reside Inside The Yellow Studio. And I'm always reminded of that Tolkien quote, "Never laugh at live dragons." I suspect one's first encounter with a live dragon might prove so fearful that a wise person would learn to not laugh, but to take the dragon seriously. So it is with learning wisdom. We may not get it right the first time, but we'd best get it right the next time lest it prove fatal. As much as we may want to get it right in realtime, that often doesn't happen. And it's mostly okay. Except when it's not. For years I've shared with you my parental advice, "Don't make a mistake from which you can't recover." We never wanted our children to make a mistake so foolish that it caused permanent or long-lasting damage. We trained them and hoped they'd learn from their mistakes, but mostly...we wanted those mistake to be ones from which they could recover or find redemption from. It wasn't just parental advice, it was what we tried to accomplish in our own lives, as their parents. Yes, we sometimes got it wrong, but with the things that mattered the most - those things that are eternal - we got it completely right. We leaned hard into providing the spiritual food our children needed to grow up strong,
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