Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Counting

"Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count."
Albert Einstein

Monday, January 17, 2011

Freedom. . .real freedom

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. possessed a radical vision of freedom, liberty and hope. 

We celebrate his life tody. 

Take a look at this as you reflect on the values that consumed his incredible life.

Reflect.

Get back to me. 

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Discovery, Progress & Imagination


Walter Isaacson just published a new biography on Albert Einstein, Einstein: His Life and Universe.

Likely a must-read.

Isaacson is CEO for the Aspen Institute and a member of the Board of Tulane University. During a presentation at the university back in March, he said this about Einstein:

"His slow ability to learn how to talk meant he thought in pictures. He thought in images. He thought imaginatively. All the great Einstein breakthroughs are not done by really hard applications of hard mathematical equations but by imaginative thought experiments."

It works this way in every field, it seems to me.

Progress occurs, breakthroughs happen when people are allowed to see new visions, dream new dreams, work on new ways of looking at old problems and experiment with their understanding of reality.

While there may be security in the "hard math" approach, advances come when we allow ourselves and our partners to "see" the future and its ever expanding possibilities.