Life is a full time job. A worthwhile life is a full time job with high overtime pay. That overtime pay may put you in the poor house. And only you may see yourself as wealthy beyond your greatest dreams. That is a chance I hope you will take.

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“I am going to join the army. I am going to be a Ranger.”

My blood ran cold. My sang-froid froze. My laugh died in my throat.

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As a corporate technical educator I designed, implemented, and managed the world’s best corporate education system. Its principles were based somewhat on the Navy’s system. The erstwhile training manager would often say to me “Jack, I don’t think we have been told we can do that.” I would reply “Horst, in the Navy we had a motto. “CAN DO.” The motto was not “CAN NOT DO.”

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McCain Lost Five Military Aircraft

McCain, the “below par” pilot, eventually lost 5 military aircraft, the first during a training flight in 1958 when he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay while trying to land. The Navy ignored the crash and graduated McCain in 1960.

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What do you think (take your time) it would take to get 300 million USians to step into a nontransparent telephone booth (assuming they existed) reach up between their nether cheeks and jerk their heads out into the clear light of day?

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I try to help people develop the ability to resist low level, first level, bottom feeder level, opinion. I persuade people to form logical conclusions without jumping to concussions.
Sometimes logic does not even make sense to one who lives by and almost routinely employs logic and reason because the overwhelming masses of pseudo evidence confronted [...]

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You will not like this - at first.
That statement is one of many reasons why you will not survive this article. This statement is one of many reasons why you will never learn to formulate Second Level Opinon (SLO).  Those two statements will point to the third of many reasons why you will quit this [...]

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Last fall (no, wrong - soooo many falls). Last autumn the television went on at my house for the first time since September, 2001.
SLO did not mean Second Level Opinion around here back then. But I exercised it anyway. Whenever I mention the phrase, Second Level Opinion, I get one of two reactions you would expect. [...]

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