Dream Big: Leave a committed life behind. Tom Bailey October 10, 2018
How to get the most out of today If You Had Told Me Delivering The Arkansas Gazette Can you count to two or How I learned to Code My job is to figure out how the world works Albert Schweitzer on Being Truly Happy Leaving Las Vegas Flying my Flag! That depends on you Something at Stake Suspend your beliefs Participate Listen in a new way Be on the edge of your seat
Something to Think About If you don t know history, you don t know anything. You re a leaf that doesn t know it s part of a tree. ~ Michael Crichton The stories that you tell about your past shape your future. ~ Eric Ransdell (In Fast Company)
a committed life. Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral I don t want a long funereal. And, if you get somebody to deliver the eulogy, then tell them not to talk too long Tell them not to mention that I have a Nobel Peace Prize Tell them not to mention that I have three or four hundred other awards I d like somebody to mention that day that Martin Luther King, Jr.., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day that Martin Luther King, Jr.. tried too love somebody. Say that I was drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. That I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the shallow things will not matter. I won t have any money to leave behind. I won t have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Atlanta, GA, February 4, 1968
A Lifetime Your work is only beginning Your Degree is the Ticket to the Game Building a Reputation and a Resume The most important thing that you have to give Defining the Playing Field Universe as a closed system Albert and his watch A Unified Theory The Difference Between Good and Great Discovering my Passion for Public Speaking
What s in a Cloud? The Dawn of the Information Age Information Transformation over time Mike Rutgers and Information tone A Paradigm Shift from Server Centric to Information Centric You are the First Generation to be Born in the Cloud era Hidden Figures ; a story about computers NASA in the 40 s and 50 s Saturn V/Apollo Computing Capabilities Getting to the Moon and Back The Martian NASA in the 21 st Century Elon Musk and the Falcon Heavy Crew Selection Building Aeries Work the Problem
The End Game of the Information Age Waging Peace Governments can only do so much Security Establish a level playing field for the free market process It s a Business Problem Capital, labor, raw material, and manufacturing capability Reducing Friction in the system A World with nothing and no one left out
A Game Worth Playing This is the true joy in life, the being used for a propose recognized by yourself as a might one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman
Rules of the game It isn t over until it s over Life is a paradox Talk is Cheap The Arc of History is Long You can never be smart enough Masters know they don t know anything Work is important but it doesn t matter It s all small stuff In the world we re all professionals
Being a Professional Whoever said It s not whether you win or lose that counts is probably someone who lost. There are winners and there are losers. And if you chose to be one of the former the journey through life can be a little lonely. When you re a winner you have to set the standard for excellence wherever you go. You have to battle against the fatigue, the intimidation, the human tendency to just want to take things a little easier. You have to be able to come up with, time and time again, one consistently great performance after another. It s grueling and I don t know many people willing to make the effort. But it s those few, true professionals you meet along the way that help make the journey just a little easier to manage. Martina Navratilova
Do the following Reading, Writing, and Speaking Find your dream and commit to being the best Find out where the best of the best hang out Go There and get In the middle of the action Find a mentor and pay your dues It s a full contact sport Sir Winston s Greatest Hits Heart of a Trojan: Step In
The Competition; Institutionalized Thinking We ask ourselves: Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Nelson Mandela Inaugural Speech, 1994
On trying to figure it all out I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer " Rainer Maria Rilke
Suggested Reading Illusions; the Tales of a Reluctant Messiah - Richard Bach The Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge, et. al. Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi Re-engineering Management - Michael Chiampy The Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Crossing the Chasm - Geoffrey A. Moore On the Way to Language - Martin Heidegger The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger Head to Head - Lester Thurow A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes - Stephen Hawking