A genius kid from low rung meets a prize winning recluse and both transform each other. Sixteen year old Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown) gets an opportunity in a prestigious private school. School's hope pinned high on his basketball ability and not so much in anything else, Jamal accidentally encounters William Forrester (Sean Connery). Forrester's tragedies in life rips him away from his success (Pulitzer Prize).In course of tutelage to deserving Jamal, Forrester gradually and accidentally kindles his own life. Jamal's talent (for writing) shines and how !!! "Awareness" is the proverbial Jamal here in each of us. It is at the low rung of our priorities and importance. We believe that everything else that awareness is able to do for us, our thinking-feeling-saying-doing, is more worthy of cultivation. Epiphanies and deep longings and timeless wisdom are the proverbial Forresters in us. Once or few times, having had the grand success of tasting dee...
Time and again, us humans have been at war. We certainly do not go to war because one or both or multiple sides feels over-arching abundance. We go to war because of reasons deeply rooted in lack or scarcity or the anticipation of it . These "lack" or "scarcity" are deeply entrenched in individuals and or groups. This write-up sets out to answer the following questions: How was one drafted into wars in the past? What is the war now? How are you Asymptomatic Carriers of Warlords, thus drafted in the war already? How can you fight it better or cut-down your participation? And these can enable you into "situational leadership" position if you chose to. https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/vietnam-draft-dodger How was one drafted into wars in the past? What is drafting? When a community and or its organizing body or institution went for a war, there was either what is called voluntary participation for fight...
Summary: We are drafted into various games. Some we are aware of and some we are not and some we chose to not look at like games. What's the nature of these games? Are they truly "survival of the fittest"? And could there be adaptive and maladaptive forms of "survival of the fittest"? The following scribble (18 min reading time) stitches together some concepts and borrows from likes of John Powell (Haas Institute), Joshua Greene (Harvard), Gleb Tsipursky (Ohio University), Niall Fergusson (Hoover Institute), and some more. What happened in childhood that invoked Darwin? Circa 1980s. Summer afternoons were a treat, no matter the heat. They were full of vocations and vacations. They were the days of a yester-child. I was playing with Shankar. I do not remember exactly what we were playing though. Suddenly i felt someone twisting my ears badly.... reeeeeeeally badly. Those were the days when ears had some strange significanc...
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