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Another way of looking at our life is to confess that we swim continuously in force fields of energy, our Greek ancestors called Moira, . . . or Fate. This is the energy of finite creation, with all its limits, boundaries, confines. You are born a certain person, with a genetic code, a set of parents, a cultural context, a zeitgeist, and in significant proportion are defined and delimited by these realities. At the same time, you swim in a force field they called proorismos, or Destiny, which is an expanding field of possible outcomes. Destiny encompasses whatever is capable of becoming. ~ What Matters Most, p. 190
The Best of James Hollis
Logan Jones
In our work with couples, we talk about creating love maps. By “love map,” we mean an intimate knowledge of your partner’s inner world. Their hopes and dreams. Their beliefs; their fears; their desires. You have to ask questions not only to create love maps, but also to update love maps. And that means asking open-ended questions. That’s what we mean by “big” questions: there’s no yes/no reply that’s possible; no quick drop-down menu of replies. An open-ended question doesn’t have a predetermined answer. (We all know that the only correct answer to “Did you pay the electrical bill?” is “Yes, honey.”) An open-ended question is full of possibility. There’s not one road forward, but many—you don’t know where the conversation will go next or where you’ll both end up. And that’s how you update love maps and make new ones—both by forging ahead into new territory and by looping back to previously mapped territory to see how it has changed. And we can’t save these types of exploratory questions for date nights. They need to be a daily habit, not a “special occasion” thing.
The Love Prescription
John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman
I suspect Warren Buffett might deal with uncertainty by minimizing his “margin of unsafety,” while he has never expressed it in those terms. This would be the excess of a stock’s market price over an extremely conservative present value—a true worst case scenario. Instead of discounting all forecast cash flows—highly probable and somewhat fanciful together—only the most certain cash flows would be counted. No terminal value is assumed. In most cases, this is far too gloomy a scenario, because portions of the probable, possible, and fanciful forecast cash flows do emerge. Recognizing this, stocks almost never sell at a discount to their highly certain value. But if your first rule of investing is “Don’t lose money,” then minimizing the margin of unsafety is one way to do it.
Big Money Thinks Small
Joel Tillinghast
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