He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. An imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the universe, the locksmith of mysteries of the atom and the universe.
–from Einstein: His Life and Universe (Simon & Schuster, 2007) by the Aspen Institute’s Walter Isaacson, former Time managing editor.
Most of us are missing it all. –WAC/P?
“E” at the beach: Another fresh take.
Try this at home and work: The Holy Surprise of a Child’s First Look. Forget for a moment, if you can, about Clients and Paris.
WAC/WAP? is at heart about Quality, Old Verities, and Values–the things no business, government, non-profit group, religion, politician or leader (a) wants to give you or (b) can give you. No, not even family and friends can.
You have to find them on your own. Work and Service, whether you are paid for them or not, are inseparable from these things.
At this blog, at our firm, and in our lives, we seek (in the largest sense) serious overachievers, and aficionados of life, past and present: identifying them, learning from them, having them as friends, hiring them and, above all, never holding them back.
It is often hard to find these people–or even to remember that they once existed.
We do, after all, live in a cookie-cutter world. Originality, intuition, authentic spirituality, and even taste are not valued–these traits are often feared and attacked–in most of the West.