FLOW: Areté and the Entrepreneur
Brian
FLOW just published the article I created for Working for Good (Areté and the Entrepreneur). Thought I'd share!
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"
~ Goethe
The following two inspiring pieces come from the curriculum FLOW produced for the Working for Good program, which debuts this month and continues into May with a series of live webcasts. The first, Areté and the Entrepreneur is by Brian Johnson, Philosopher and CEO of Zaadz, Inc. The second, J.B.'s Story is by Marilyn King, two-time Olympic pentathlete and creator of Olympian Thinking™, a program that catalyzes effective action.
Areté and the Entrepreneur
"Some believe there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills – against misery, against ignorance, or injustice and violence. Yet many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32 year old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. ‘Give me a place to stand,’ said Archimedes, ‘and I will move the world.’ These men moved the world, and so can we all.”
Robert F. Kennedy, 20th century US political leader
If we--as enlightened entrepreneurs--are going to change the world, we must start with ourselves. We must strive to live at our highest potential while using our greatest strengths in the greatest service to the world.
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August 2008 
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Wow, it's published on FLOW now… SWEET! Congratulations man, you're doing AWESOME! Very inspiring!
Thank you so much Brian!!! I am definitely digging into this site to understand this better.
Here is another group, HearMath, that is working with children, adults, and business to establish their version of flow which they call heart intelligence. This link is to the children's section of the site. http://heartmath.org/education/index.html
Great Stuff!
Brian, I read this article, printed it out and will be coming back to it daily for a while. It's got some of my favourite quotes, but apart from that, it's just one of the best syntheses of the new morality that is really as old as the world. Utterly simple, powerful beyond measure.
Thank you so much for offering this. It is a pure expression of all it points to. I will be sharing this with a few people around me.
hey guys
thanks so much for your kind words. Much appreciated. I'm going to be writing a LOT more as we articulate who we, as a company and a community, stand for in the process of creating the vision of our ideal and the pracitcal roadmap to its attainment.
we have a lot of work to do!!
yours in Areté,
-bri
Z: heartmath looks cool!
Just read the Working for Good curriculum article - very cool. I love all the quotes. We’re going to start sharing it with fellow consultants and partners. Also, gonna try to see if I can get in on the webcasts tomorrow.