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But my story doesn’t begin with them, or with the mafia: it goes back to that first day in Bombay. Fate put me in the game there. Luck dealt the cards that led me to Karla Saaranen. And I started to play it out, that hand, from the first moment I looked into her green eyes. So it begins, this story, like everything else—with a woman, and a city, and a little bit of luck.
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
A theory of a situation is just an informal organizing pattern (either recognized from past experience, or improvised) that accelerates the development of situation awareness by providing a strong filter. New input that further refines, confirms or obviously invalidates the theory bubbles quickly to the foreground. Clearly irrelevant input is banished to the background. Elements of unclear relevance remain in limbo as a vague sense of uncertainty, creating drag, which we experience as doubt. In the case of a love triangle, the pattern in your head might be: A and B are both attracted to C, and C is mildly attracted to A.
The greatest gift you can give a person is to see who she is and to reflect that back to her. When we help people to be who they want to be, to take back some of the permission they deny themselves, we are doing our best, most meaningful work.
Meaningful
Bernadette Jiwa
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