Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 12/02/2024
Observations
• I find that the people drinking to excess in first class are usually those on frequent flyer points trying to make the most of the experience.
• Inexplicably, pronouns are starting to annoy me. “Are we enjoying our meal?” from a server. “They” were late for the meeting, referring to a single person.
• Why has it never occurred to the Catholic Church, in 2,000 years, to teach priests how to deliver a sermon well?
• The people who don’t allow you to merge into traffic even when it’s your turn have very low self-esteem.
• There are rules (be quiet during a performance), regulations (you must be 18 years old to go on this ride), and laws (the speed limit is 65MPH). When the minor ones are broken, the respect for the major ones weakens. So people shout at movie screens, use false IDs, and drive at 75MPH—and cheat on their taxes and take videos of live performances, and are seldom thrown out or prosecuted.
• Sports betting and lotteries and online gambling are growing exponentially. I don’t think you support a national economy that way and it’s ruining a lot of people.
• Why is it that sweetened candies and drinks are being taken off shelves in a “health” gesture by many stores, but tobacco is still sold?
• Astronomical tuitions make zero sense when Harvard has an endowment of $53 billion and Princeton 34. And in most of these schools the only way to see a full professor before junior year is by passing one in the hall.
• I know people get queasy about boxing, cage fighting, and even football, but I find horse racing more troublesome. The horses are not voluntarily participating, and a lot of them are killed.
• Most of the people on social media with the complicated graphs and charts and lists of ideal leadership, or toxic environments, or perfect coaching don’t know what the hell they’re talking about. It’s like a “ski instructor” who’s never skied showing me a chart before I go up the mountain alone.
• The true stars perform at their very best when the pressure is the highest.
• You win or lose before you walk into the room. It all depends on how much you believe in yourself. I call it “the courage of your talent.”
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. —Confucius
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. —Dalai Lama
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. —Marie Curie
I’m a reductionist. I always begin by trying to simplify. —Alan Weiss
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