The following segment from Tom Freston's 2007 commencement speech to
the graduates at Emerson College contains four pieces of wisdom about
'being in action' that are timeless. This man built MTV and Viacom's
cable empire, was fired by chairman Sumner Redstone, accepted a $60
million severage package and is now helping Oprah build her new TV
network while you travels to Afghanistan, Burma, Rwanda and beyond and
works with Bono to reduce global poverty and AIDS. [ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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 By Kevin Brown | Bio
Recently I was speaking with a friend about
his bright four-year-old son. During the conversation, my friend noted
how he was amazed at the ability of his son to recall events and
details that had occurred many months prior. He marveled that his son
could so easily and effortlessly recall information that for most
adults would have long since been forgotten. Upon hearing his comments, I rather jokingly gave my normal response
when confronted with similar comments about smart children with great
memory. “It’s not that children have such great memory, they just have
not experienced enough of life to have the mass of information stored
in their brains that adults do!” I was clinging to[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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I have been thinking about the process of growing older for a long
time. In my 30s, I discovered I had all sorts of stereotypes about old
people (which for me at that age was anyone over 60) and that most of
my notions were just plain wrong. For example, I learned though
conversations with a number of older friends that most people aren’t
afraid to die after a certain point—but they are afraid to die without
having left a mark or without having been able to pass on their life’s
experience to the younger generation. I began to distinguish that we
all grow old ‘into a cultural interpretation’ of what it means to grow
older, into a story about what we can expect and what is and isn’t
possible. I realized that aging isn’t personal, anymore than the
weather is (or any other context we all share for that matter). Yet,
our whole conversation about aging seems to be about ‘me’ and what I
want, how I feel, why I am doing or not doing something, and what I
think about everything and everyone in my life.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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Just finished reading Andy Wibbel’s comments on The Secret,
the latest new internet movie. I pretty much agree that this
extravaganza has high production values, very much along the same lines
as What the Bleep. But the whole time I was watching, I kept waiting to
hear ‘who’ was behind it — a church, the Rosicrucians, another sub rosa
plug for the teachings of some cult? Was pleasantly surprised that the
message seemed to be the whole flick —you get what you sow and we need
to “come from where we want to go”. Actually that seems pretty close to
truth to me, so I don’t discount the producers of the film at all, even
if the message is an ‘oldie but goodie’.[ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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