How can I move thee? Will no entreaties cause thee to turn a favourable eye upon thy creature, who implores thy goodness and compassion? Believe me, Frankenstein, I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity; but am I not alone, miserably alone? You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me. The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge. I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge.
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"Let me ask you this, Greg. How grateful are you to the people who helped you achieve your dreams?"
"Extremely," Greg conceded.
"Wouldn't you like your employees to be that grateful toward you?"
"Of course. Wouldn't anyone?"
"Can't you see how that would change the energy, attitude, and dynamic here at Admiral?"
"Sure I can, Simon, but ...
"Help your employees in the direction of their dreams and you will create the most dynamic environment in corporate America!"
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I can say with certainty that if you truly let go and embrace 'not yet good enough’ instead of ‘not good enough’, you'll be able to go and do exactly what you want, when you want. Life will be infinitely easier. Your mind will open and become a sponge rather than a fortress trying to constantly defend itself.
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“I'm a chameleon," revealed Todd, a 30-year-old single Nice Guy. "I will become whatever I believe a person wants me to be in order to be liked. With my smart friends I act intelligent and use a big vocabulary. Around my mother, I look like the perfect loving son. With my dad, I talk sports. With the guys at work I cuss and swear … whatever it takes to look cool. Underneath it all, I'm not sure who I really am or if any of them would like me just for who I am. If I can't figure out what people want me to be, I'm afraid I will be all alone. The funny thing is, I feel alone most of the time anyway.”
“'In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night . . . You — only you — will have stars that can laugh!
In science, an explanation that has survived the scrutiny of the scientific method can become an established fact about the world, adding to our cumulative scientific knowledge … and that fact is not going to change. Let me give you my favourite example from physics. Galileo came up with a formula that allowed him to calculate how quickly an object falls when dropped. But his formula was more than ‘just a theory’. We still use it over four centuries later because we know it to be true. If I drop a ball from a height of five metres, it will fall for one second7 before it hits the ground—not two seconds or half a second, but one second. This is an established, absolute truth about the world that is never going to change.
