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Or, you can stay in the middle, perfectly balanced, and walk away. Back to safety, back to neutral. Not here or there, not forward or back, not up or down. You’re not alone anymore, because everyone else is in the middle with you, where no decisions or commitments are made, and you can stay average forever. It’s nice. It’s calm. But it sure as hell ain’t Winning. This is your battle, your race to greatness. How you achieve it, and whether you achieve it, relies solely on your “selfish” ability to prioritize without regret.
Tim handed over another image. It showed Factory 395 had half a dozen factories clustered around it. Ku identified each one by its number. Tim asked how many they employed. Ku did not hesitate: over ten thousand. Tim knew this was no wild guess; the figure was a current CIA estimate. He probed further: What was the ratio between those working on nuclear, chemical, and biological projects? Ku’s reply further satisfied the CIA officer that he was not dealing with another of those asylum seekers who invented what they thought their interrogators wanted to hear. Ku said that while creating nuclear bombs was still the country’s largest military priority, the work was also divided between research and production of chemical and biological weapons; each section employed about four hundred thousand people. Again, the figure corresponded with the CIA’s. Tim indicated a snapshot of a woman. Ku confirmed she was Dr. Yi, who had been at the meeting, listening and taking notes while he explained the technicalities of inserting a guidance system into one of the SS-18 missiles that had been acquired from the Soviet Union shortly before its collapse. When he had completed his presentation, Dr. Yi had asked: When would the system be ready to deliver a biological weapon? Within a year? Longer? A stocky, middle-aged general had interjected to say this was not a matter for Ku to judge.
Secret Wars
Gordon Thomas
When competing goals get activated in your brain, it responds by inhibiting one of them, thus providing a goal shield. In other words, the losing goal doesn’t just get ignored—it gets completely deactivated.
Succeed
Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D. and Carol S. Dweck
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