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We’ve all heard it before — “Be in the moment.” It’s screened onto coffee mugs, whispered in yoga studios, printed on posters everywhere. And if you’re anything like me, maybe it used to drive you a little nuts. What other moment could I possibly be in?
No time to read? Listen here: “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” is an episode from the original Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling and based on the fable The Beautiful People by Charles Beaumont.
The episode depicts a dystopian future where beauty is everything. By age 19, every young person must go through a full surgical transformation. They get choose from a few “perfect” body types.
No time to read? Listen here: Have you ever heard someone say that people are like icebergs?
The part of a person we see — the way someone acts, what they say, the version of themselves they show us — it’s all just the top. A tiny peak above the surface.
The biggest part of the iceberg is under the water, invisible.
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Early in his career, salesman Joe Girard created his “Law of 250” which says that every person knows on average 250 other people. In his world, that meant that a positive sales experience for one customer had the potential to yield 250 more. So he’d gain not only that relationship, but access to every relationship that person had, their entire network of contacts and friends.
And it worked: through positive word of mouth, Girard became the Guinness Book of World Records greatest retail salesperson in the world, a title he held for 12 consecutive years.
For decades, running a mile in less than four minutes was considered impossible, beyond the physical capacity of the human body. But in 1954, Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old British medical student, proved this belief wrong by running a mile in 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds on the Iffley Road track in Oxford, England in front of 3,000 spectators.
More amazing than the achievement itself was the aftermath.