A quotation from Euripides

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 636ff, Second Stasimon, Antistrophe 1 (431 BC) [tr. Davie (1996)]

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A quotation from John Adams

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson

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#restraint : hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental

- French: contrainte

- German: die Beschränkung

- Italian: restrizione

- Portuguese: restrinção

- Spanish: restricción

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“Sometimes, the hardest brake to press is the one on your own ambition.” – Futurist Jim Carroll

In the world of leadership and innovation, we are wired for speed.

We obsess over acceleration, growth, and breaking barriers. But I am learning, in a very personal way, that the true test of discipline isn't how fast you can go—it's whether you have the discipline to go slow when every cell in your body screams "faster."

Because this is what you need to do when you have 'minor fractures' of the transverse processes on your spine, as can be seen in my CT scan after my incident in November.

Which means I am currently living with a bit of a physiological paradox.

I'm a guy who, at my age, is in pretty decent physical shape and always VERY active - and now the most important thing I can do is to be intelligently inactive.

Let's start here. I use all the modern tools on my phone to track my fitness and health. And I must admit, I'm in pretty good shape. My resting heart rate averages about 52 beats per minute. That's athlete territory. My heart rate recovery is at the high end of the scale, dropping 38 beats in the first minute after exercise. That's really good! Not only that, but according to Strava, I was in the top 0.4% of all users for hours active last year.

And get this - I lifted a cumulative 884,000 pounds and built a back strong enough to land in the top 20% of all users. Google Gemini tells me that it was probably the fact that the back extensions I do were my **#1** exercise that prevented my fall from being much worse, because I've built up so much muscle back there!

By every metric, my "engine" is primed, tuned, and ready to dominate.

But my "chassis" is currently broken.

Those three small fractures in my L1-L3 vertebrae don't care about my great VO2 Max. They don't care that I lifted a quarter-million pounds with my back muscles last year. They don't care that I spent a whopping 729 workouts last year, a combination of actual fitness routines, walking, and skiing.

They are fragile, healing, and demanding silence.

That means the most important thing I can do at this very moment is not to do much at all.

And for a guy who walks 7k to 15km a day, goes to the gym at least 5 times and week, skis for hours on a day during the winter - this is pretty overwhelming to try to do!
And this is where the leadership lesson hits home.
Keep reading the full post.

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Futurist Jim Carroll is carefully learning that, in some situations, the future belongs to those who are slow.

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Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-hardest-brake-to-press-is-the-one-on-your-own-ambition/

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SN 1.24 Manonivāraṇasutta: Shielding the Mind

“You needn’t shield the mind from everything.…”

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Inspection Reveals Concerns Over Restraint and Forced Feeding in Edinburgh Psychiatric Unit for Youth

A recent inspection report of the Melville Unit at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh highlights serious concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced nasogastric feeding for 12 to 17-year-old patients. The joint inspection by the healthcare watchdog and Mental W... [More info]