1) "All things are ready, if our minds be so." - Shakespeare
2. Holon para ta moria (ὁλον παρα τα μορια). From Aristotle's Metaphysics. The whole is something beyond the parts. Commonly mistranslated as "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts" -- which misses the point completely. Mathematical understanding and metaphor is only one type of thinking, one way to understand a complete system. Valuable, for sure, but incomplete. The whole system -- e.g. a human, a team, an entrepreneurial opportunity with all its moving parts -- in its full expression and action, is beyond mathematics. Only your whole human mind can hope to comprehend it.
3) Companies tend to die -- but people tend to survive. People matter infinitely more. The most valuable thing of all is human relationships.
1) "All things are ready, if our minds be so." - Shakespeare
2. Holon para ta moria (ὁλον παρα τα μορια). From Aristotle's Metaphysics. The whole is something beyond the parts. Commonly mistranslated as "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts" -- which misses the point completely. Mathematical understanding and metaphor is only one type of thinking, one way to understand a complete system. Valuable, for sure, but incomplete. The whole system -- e.g. a human, a team, an entrepreneurial opportunity with all its moving parts -- in its full expression and action, is beyond mathematics. Only your whole human mind can hope to comprehend it.
3) Companies tend to die -- but people tend to survive. People matter infinitely more. The most valuable thing of all is human relationships.