Mastodawn

#Chess is an amazing game. I attribute my #devotion to chess prior to entering #CompTech as one of my primary reasons for success. To win at chess against better and better players requires great attention. And a #willingness to tell the #truth. Good and bad. All of the moves can be seen, right?

Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Apr 16

A #willingness to be right. Deferral has become a way of avoiding conflict that is ineffective at information sharing and avoiding conflict. I #don't #defer. I reserve the right to be wrong and keep it moving. I tell AI. I don't ask it much. And I invariably include assertions. Then demand that ...

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Hacker News Mar 13

A willingness to look stupid is the most underrated moat in doing creative work

https://sharif.io/looking-stupid

#HackerNews #A #willingness #to #look #stupid #is #the #most #underrated #moat #in #doing #creative #work #creativity #innovation #mindset #growth #learning

Willingness to look stupid is a genuine moat in creative work

Looking foolish is underrated.

misryoum global news network Mar 1

Trump signals willingness to talk to new Iranian leadership as strikes continue

https://misryoum.com/us/politics/trump-signals-willingness-to-talk-to-new-iranian/

Washington — President Trump said Sunday that he is willing to speak with the new leadership in Iran following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's longtime leader, who was killed in Israeli airstrikes on Saturday."They...

#Trump #signals #willingness #talk #new #Iranian #leadership #strikes #continue #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

Trump signals willingness to talk to new Iranian leadership as strikes continue

Washington — President Trump said Sunday that he is willing to speak with the new leadership in Iran following the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Feb 7

... your #ambition, your #willingness to work, then you do one of two things. Sort of give up, or you become like Donald #Trump. Giving up is terrible, and the becoming like Donald Trump is even more. The only good option is to #believe in yourself because you are. Because you are. Tell #yourself...

masonQQ Oct 5, 2025

Discover the key qualities of reliable employees, including integrity and willingness to take on challenges, as emphasized by Walmart's CHRO.
#willingness #challenges #employees #walmart

https://masonq.com/2025/10/06/trending-%f0%9f%87%ba%f0%9f%87%b8-one-of-the-top-qualities-walmart-executives-value-in-their-employees-is-commitment/

The Value of Keeping Promises in Leadership and Work

Discover the key qualities of reliable employees, including integrity and willingness to take on challenges, as emphasized by Walmart's CHRO.

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Estelle Platini Aug 23, 2025

"The paradox of education is precisely this — that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. The purpose of education, finally, is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for himself, to make his own decisions, to say to himself this is black or this is white, to decide for himself whether there is a God in heaven or not. To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity. But no society is really anxious to have that kind of person around. What societies really, ideally, want is a citizenry which will simply obey the rules of society."

James Baldwin to teachers in 1963: https://richgibson.com/talktoteachers.htm

#obedience #adultDomination #growth #willingness #control #merit #personalDevelopment #school #education #imagination #performance #ranking #meritocracy #practice #training #merit #institutionsDeceive #learning #teaching #Baldwin #reform #adultism #teachers

"A Talk to Teachers" James Baldwin, 1963

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Aug 4, 2025

A quotation from Wendell Berry

The National Security Strategy defines terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against innocents” (p. 5). This is truly a distinct kind of violence, but to imply by the word “terrorism” that this sort of terror is the work exclusively of “terrorists” is misleading. The “legitimate” warfare of technologically advanced nations likewise is premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against innocents. The distinction between the intention to perpetrate violence against innocents, as in “terrorism,” and the willingness to do so, as in “war,” is not a source of comfort.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (2003-02-09), “A Citizen’s Response,” sec. 1, paid advertisment, New York Times

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/berry-wendell/17607/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #innocents #intention #politicalviolence #terrorism #terrorist #warfare #willingness #collateraldamage #victims #civilians

Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv Aug 2, 2025

🏡🏠🏘️🏩🩷💗🤍🩵💚🏡🏠🏘️🏩*"We need to ask God for forgiveness!*& do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused!*Repentance means a change of mind!*& heart!*we stop doing things that are wrong!*& we start doing things that are right!*It brings us a fresh attitude toward God!*oneself!*& life in general!"🏡🏠🏘️🏩🩷💗🤍🩵💚🏡🏠🏘️🏩

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#Quote #Repent #Repentance #GOD #Truth #Love #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Sincerity #willingness #confess #sins #forgiveness #New #Light #World #Pray

Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv Aug 2, 2025

🦫🦫🦫💛🧡🤎🦫🦫🦫*"We need to ask God for forgiveness!*& do all we can to correct whatever harm our actions may have caused!*Repentance means a change of mind!*& heart!*we stop doing things that are wrong!*& we start doing things that are right!*It brings us a fresh attitude toward God!*oneself!*& life in general!"🦫🦫🦫💛🧡🤎🦫🦫🦫

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#Quote #Repent #Repentance #GOD #Truth #Love #Jesus #Christ #Holy #Spirit #Sincerity #willingness #confess #sins #forgiveness #New #Self #Light #World #Pray