On Programing the Psychedelic Experience by Tim Leary & Ralph Metzner
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Hey everyone. Since most news sources seem obsessed with Tom and Katie’s divorce, drought in America, and Mitt Romney, I thought I’d put this out there in case any of you missed it. Northern Mali has been taken over by Fundamentalists. They are destroying ancient Sufi (a branch of Islam) tombs,…
When some people question why I would challenge his Bain record, the point I’ve made there in the past is, if you’re a head of a large private equity firm or hedge fund, your job is to make money. It’s not to create jobs. It’s not even to create a successful business—it’s to make sure that you’re maximizing returns for your investor. Now that’s appropriate. That’s part of the American way. That’s part of the system. But that doesn’t necessarily make you qualified to think about the economy as a whole, because as president, my job is to think about the workers. My job is to think about communities, where jobs have been outsourced.
Ever since I can remember, I have always been the type of person interested in seeing what happens when you bring together a room full of extraordinary people who are passionate about making a difference in their communities.
In many ways, I like to surround myself with people who share the “FIRE, AIM, READY” mindset, those willing to experiment, to fail, to learn from these failures, and to continue to push the creative boundaries of unrealistic possibilities. And then to repeat this creative process all over again.
…To date, over 4,300 TEDx events have taken place in 1,200 cities in 133 countries all over the world, where ordinary people just like you and me are imagining, dreaming and creating a better future for themselves and their communities, using the TEDx platform to make it happen.
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| — | Renjie Butalid, TEDxWaterloo organizer, in his blog post, “Lessons from TED and TEDx: Turning Ideas Into Action.” |
