The problem is that to grow, to take the journeys on which our growth is predicted, we must confront our own immaturity, self-ishness, and lack of courage. In a sense, our life is about a forceful, often overpowering need to take journeys, yet our tendency is to grip the swings ever more tightly. The decisions we make about our journeys determine how our self is aligned with our surrounding environment.

Excerpt from Deep Change by Robert E. Quinn

The more and more I read, the more and more amazed I become when groups and organizations are able to come together and work as teams on their own. The conditions and the people are just right where amazing things happen. There is a job, a paying job that a person can have, to go in and fix companies and groups that are slowly deteriorating or just to get groups started right. Yet we do it everyday without help and we don't even know it. So wherever you go, in school or in the work place or at home, no matter how little or often it happens, cherish those moments because you did something amazing.

People from other countries always tend to humble and embarrass me. I agree that people shouldn't treat the person special. But it would be so hard to me if I was in say, Spain and spoke little Spanish. I just think it is so wired. I need to do that some time. Being in a completely foreign place and not speaking a lot of the language.