1. What is our ultimate superpower -
- If we look across species we can see that elephants have their trunks, birds have wings, and humans have this one superpower that allows us to soar above the birds and put elephants in zoos (even though we don't have wings and elephants have brains 3X the size of ours...)
2. What's busted -
- This is one of my favorite times of the year. It's March Madness. While I no longer keep up with NCAA hoops like I use to, I still enjoy filling out a bracket. And per usual, it's already busted. But one consolation is River Watch Beef has a store-wide
sale - 15% off all grass fed and finished beef - if you use their March Madness code: meatmadness
3. What I hope blooms this spring -
- I've been waiting on Floyd, my favorite plant (and drawing #4), to bloom for almost a year. Maybe this spring...
4. What 30 lesson in 30 years I added to -
- Taylor Swift turns 30 this year and in a recent article she shared 30 lessons she's learned. And 1 lesson particularly stood out to me. However, she didn't explicitly mention this lesson, and since I'm 31, I went ahead and added it.
5. What quote I've been thinking about -
"You can't ever reach perfection,
towards which you are ceaselessly striving."
― Paul Kalanithi
6. What leads to trouble -
- Last week I asked, "What 1 thing do you believe that you wouldn't dare say on social media?" I asked this because I think it's important to consider all points of view. Censorship can be dangerous. For example, in 1992 the Food Pyramid was accepted as the unquestionable healthy diet. Any doctor that disagreed was a quack. So out of fear for their
reputation, anyone with a dissenting opinion self-censored themselves. Further, media, pharma, and industry censored anyone and anything that dared to contradict this gospel. Well that food pyramid has led to unprecedented disease (obesity, diabetes, heart disease, dementia, cancer). As Mark Twain warned, "it ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know for sure that just ain't so." I think it's
important for people to share their unique views, opinions, and beliefs. Yet I understand the backlash one must endure when sharing such thoughts. Attack rather than consideration is often the default modus operandi. Hopefully this changes, but in the interim I may do this experiment periodically to share different angles of issues so together we can see a more complete picture.
7. What I was featured in -
It's a pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you,
hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
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