"Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it."
-Viktor E. Frankl

"This is not charity. This is business: business with a social objective, which is to help people get out of poverty."

A line to think about:

Comment:  Like so many books I share, this was recommended to me by a reader in response to a blog post about time.  Friedman has a string of best sellers including “The World Is Flat” and has become known as (what he calls) an “explanatory journalist; a translator from English to English”.  Here he takes complex issues such as technology and climate change and does two things that were helpful to me: 

Readers of last month’s blog about Daniel Kahneman’s work in decision making suggested I read this book and Michael Lewis latest, “The Undoing Project”, which is about DK’s work. I trust Lewis’ will be more readable as Superforecasting is well, but academically written. It’s still worth the slog if only due to two great findings from many years of research through what Tetlock titled the “Good Judgment Project”. First, and foremost in my view, is that teams of forecasters are more dependable than one so-called genius. And secondly, that the traits of good leaders conflict with the traits of good forecasters. That’s quite reassuring to me since my most enduring thought of leadership is collecting strength from diversity rather than gaining consensus for one’s own brilliance.

"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else."