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Business Insights from Andrea Hill

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A Better Cristianity

  • Short Summary: Guns in dove clothing.

I sometimes wonder what our country would be like today if Christians had thrown themselves into eradicating poverty or inequality with the same energy they invested in fighting abortion.

Fear

  • Short Summary: Nothing to fear but ...

I suspect the fear of being afraid is the most destructive fear of all.

Hope

  • Short Summary: A useful definition of hope (for the hope-deniers out there).

"The tricky thing about hope is to not confuse it with optimism." Rebecca Solnit

On Quarantine

  • Short Summary: Ah the things we didn't know before 2020.

Maybe the reason its so hard to remain in quarantine is that it's hard to outrun sadness when you're forced to be still.

Perfectionism

  • Short Summary: I suspect perfectionism is just another way of spelling ego.

Perfectionism is a luxury for (starving) artists, or artists with benefactors. The rest of us must learn the difference between being in love with our own ideas and being in love with progress.

Ratlicker

  • Short Summary: Remember when they were screaming "My Body My Choice!"
Hmm . . . my favorite new term-of-the-week: Ratlicker
"A person who refuses to wear a mask, or take any of the basic precautions to help society prevent an air born illness during an epidemic. ( In reference to the bubonic plague being spread by rats. )"

RBG Prayer

  • Short Summary: WWRBG do?

Well, Catholics pray to saints," I mutter to myself as I begin my nightly prayer to RBG.

Resistance

  • Short Summary: What do people have against peaceful protest?

Taking a knee... Long the choice of peaceful, PRAYERFUL resistance.

The Lonely Fight

  • Short Summary: At the end of the day we all have to fight our demons alone.

At the end of the day, we all have to fight our demons alone. And I think that's the source of loneliness. If you spend your whole life insisting there are no demons to fight or hiding your demons or determined to fight them in private, you end up existentially alone.

What Shapes My Mind

  • Short Summary: What's shaping your mind?
"Millions of items of the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind.”
William James

Who Makes the Money

  • Short Summary: It's not usually the first person with the idea who makes the money but the first person who invests the cash - and more importantly the discipline - who does.

Don't get FOMO over unicorns in the news. It's not usually the first person with the idea who makes the money, or even the first person who invests the cash. The person who invests the discipline is always the one to bet on.

Why? Oh, that's right.

  • Short Summary: Why is the essence of strategy.

It's surprising how many people are not aware of their reasons for doing things. They think they know, but when asked to reflect upon it, they don't. Why are you in business? Why are you pursuing this role? Why are you frustrated, lonely, anxious, doubting? Why are you making this decision? Why aren't you asking for help? If you ask why before deciding what, who, how, or when, you will come up with a stronger answer every time. In business, why is the essence of strategy. In life, why is the essence of progress.