“What you are thinking is what you’re becoming.” – Muhammad Ali
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“I know this looks like a caterpillar to you. But scientifically, according to every test, including DNA, this is fully and completely a butterfly,” - Lynch, McNicol, and Thrall
“Open your eyes,
Dream but don’t guess.
Your biggest surprise
Comes after Yes..”
– Muriel Rukeyser
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” – Suzuki Roshi
“A fatherless girl thinks nothing is impossible and nothing is safe.”
– May Sarton as quoted by Gloria Vanderbilt on the documentary she did together with her son Anderson Cooper
If this is true (and thankfully, I don’t have personal experience), what will this mean to our world as so many girls are growing up without fathers in their lives. More invention. More innovation. More paranoia. More pessimism or more optimism?
Warning: contagious idea factory. Prolonged exposure has been known to lead to elevated heart rates, provocative insights, a profound sense of possibility, and remarkable achievement.
A Subject Matter Expert (SME) is a person who has experience and capability in a certain field of study or discipline. On major project teams, they are the ones who you can in to make sure that what you are proposing is technically feasible or won't break a current process or system. Although in today's fast-paced, mobile, technology-drenched environment, people are rewarded for broad curiosities and interests, there is no substitute for deep expertise in an area. So, as we begin this new week, I am challenged to think about the areas in which I am an SME and how I can go deeper to learn more to strengthen my value there and how I might make that expertise available to solve problems and create possibilities.