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Continue reading →: Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.At first take, one might not presume that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson would be a source for aphorisms, but today’s marks the third of his that I have found compelling, and my favorite prior, was: “Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in…
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Continue reading →: If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.I saw this image and I was immediately transported back to my favorite book from childhood, The Phantom Tollbooth written by Norton Juster and imaginatively illustrated by Jules Feiffer. Though the book is on its face an adventure story, a major theme is the need for a love of education;…
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Continue reading →: Remember to not only say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing, at the tempting moment.It screams out of your brain and runs at lightning pace to your mouth. You can taste it. You sense with all of your being that it must be said. NOW! But the truth is… it should not be said. EVER! Such is the balance of human emotion. In a…
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Continue reading →: Sometimes you just have to quit trying to help those who are set in their ways.We all have someone in our world who is so entirely fixated in their ways as to make any external observation rendered useless upon receipt. Even if the observation is as plain as day, their reality is what it is and nothing is going to change that. Being a good…
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Continue reading →: If you don’t risk anything, you risk everything.Can you remember the first time you tried to do something that scared you? Probably not. It might have been something benign like stepping onto an escalator, or walking off of the curb into the street, approaching a dog, or??? Some scary things are incredibly real, and through empirical knowledge,…
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Continue reading →: The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.The elusive pursuit of happiness is perhaps one of the most misunderstood variables in life. Our culture continually reinforces that true happiness stems from vast wealth and the aggregation of exquisite trinkets and collectibles. As we grow older, the realization that this pursuit is in and of it’s self just…
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Continue reading →: A person reveals their character by nothing so clearly as the joke they resent.What is funny? We laugh at so many things. And yet so many of them have nothing to do with each other, nor are they even the same kind of humor. Comedy comes in so many flavors: physical, political, dark, one liners, stand up, situation, romantic, intellectual and so much…
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Continue reading →: Education is the art of making man more ethicalEducation is the art of making man more ethical. I sat with this aphorism for awhile, trying to sort through the permutations that are implicitly created, starting with: is it only an educated process that makes a human being compassionate? The animal kingdom demonstrates compassion inter-species and intra-species. Social media…
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Continue reading →: Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.April 9 has always been a propitious day for me. I was bar mitzvahed on April 9, moved to Hawaii on April 9 and got married on April 9. Not for any particular reason…just happenstance. How interesting then, that both my mom and I got our appointments today to have…
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Continue reading →: Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.The art of honesty and friendship is a beautiful ballet. The deeper friendships will tolerate core truths to be discussed and considered whereas the more superficial friendships merely enable the exchange of trivialities. Many a friendship has been eroded or outright decimated by the wrong exchange of information, or the…
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I’m Brian
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Brian Weiner 