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Beyonce and Jay-Z take everything. Meanwhile the gal with the guitar in the bar down the road Thursday nights keeps working at the insurance company by day. This is a problem.
In figure skating a panel of judges works from some rubric to evaluate a skater's skating. Usually they won't all have the same evaluation. A keen observer or a camera at the finish line determines race finish time.
Once in a great while there comes a person so perpendicular to what typifies a field that they might upend it.
"I would say the harm is the mono-myth is a machine designed intentionally or not to make you a narcissist. The mono-myth is all about how a singular entity has the entire universe laid out for him" -- Abraham Riesman
What would it look like to go on such a quest today?
The metaphor is for tough situations we encounter. It seems it could also be used for ethical questions.
They carve their own paths, take risks, and have low ego. They're clear-eyed.
Our vocabulary around working isn’t broad enough. Let’s enhance it.