Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 05/08/17
The farther removed an event, the less its impact on most of us. We sympathize and send government help to Fukushima, for example, but Three Mile Island dominated our news and national attention. Volkswagen’s unethical actions with emissions was a regrettable problem in Germany unless, of course, you owned one of the vehicles, thus afflicted wherever you live.
I admire people who refuse to allow distance to insulate them. My dentist, for example, goes to Haiti yearly to help out in a free clinic in a remote village under primitive conditions. A colleague of mine has visited North Korea to see for himself what it’s like there. There are people who defuse bombs for a living (real and metaphoric).
Someone told me once, “I’m scared out of my mind to have you coach me!” (He subsequently got over it.) There are people who want to increase distance instead of reduce it. They avoid confrontation, eschew the tougher options, and prefer empty words over hard work.
The great naval hero John Paul Jones spoke about his intent to “sail into harm’s way.” We need to move toward the noise, toward the bright light, toward the great challenge, not back away. My coaching will improve your life, but I can’t help you if you’re afraid to approach me.
We need to run toward the challenges, not flee as if distance will save us. Isolationism has never proved to be a viable strategy for nations, organizations, or individuals. Philosophers may be happy on lofty mountain tops, but we sinners have to run the world.
If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch. —Thurgood Marshall
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