- Disruptor
- Influencer
- Ward of the State
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Did you forget how to count? 
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It’s not the vote – it’s the consideration of options that counts. 
Gracefully I’ll bow out from all three choices. 
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Grace befits you.
If Retired was a choice I would have voted.
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Honest self-assessment is important.
I don’t believe in false dichotomies. 
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No regrets. I’m feisty today.
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Just today?
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I mean… a day, a week, 11 days… Who’s counting?
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Inspiration and perspiration. 
Stay feisty!
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Funny, that’s so close to something a mentor of mine taught me many years ago and that I often repeat…
Inspiration works better with information than perspiration
He was referring to first trying to learn everything you can so you can get better insights and ideas and ultimately make the right choices because you’re informed, rather than all the people who just randomly worry about and hope for some miracle answer but don’t make any personal effort to try to figure out what the best potential options may be and why. In his opinion, he had learned that the more he planned through different options, the more obvious it would become which was the better solution and the more easily he could be inspired which way to move forward because he had better information and data. In this context he was originally talking to me about how he decides who to assign to teams together, and his point was that if he doesn’t know anything about the individuals he is assigning to each other, he’s likely to make a lot of mistakes and create bad teams that don’t function well together, but if he spends the time to understand their strengths and weaknesses, he is a lot better capable of being “inspired” about who he should assign with whom to make an effective team. Every little bit of information he gained from getting to know people and how they work together with others made him more effective in being inspired for what’s likely to work better…his inspiration was based on information…rather than making stressful decisions without any actual knowledge (based on perspiration and worrying about it in ignorance).
This has come in handy a lot. So when I see Inspiration and perspiration together in a sentence I always think about him teaching me to gather data first and think through the options more thoroughly before making important decisions.
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I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent. Curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-critique, have brought me to my ideas.
-Iconic smart guy
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