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The Monday Morning Memo

OPPORTUNITY

           THIS I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:–

            There spread a cloud of dust along a plain;

            And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged

            A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords

            Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s banner

            Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes.

            A craven hung along the battle’s edge,

            And thought, “Had I a sword of keener steel–

            That blue blade that the king’s son bears, — but this

            Blunt thing–!” he snapped and flung it from his hand,

            And lowering crept away and left the field.

            Then came the king’s son, wounded, sore bestead,

            And weaponless, and saw the broken sword,

            Hilt-buried in the dry and trodden sand,

            And ran and snatched it, and with battle shout

            Lifted afresh he hewed his enemy down,

            And saved a great cause that heroic day.

– Edward Rowland Sill 

“Opportunity” is reprinted from The Little Book of American Poets: 1787-1900. Ed. Jessie B. Rittenhouse. Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1915.

Robert Frost wrote a narrative poem that has its roots, I think,
in this story of the king’s son. Frost’s poem is titled,
“How Hard It Is to Keep from Being King When It’s in You and in the Situation.”

You should read it.

The point I wish to make is this: Kings are kings for a reason. Whiners whine, complainers complain, critics make suggestions and talkers talk.

Doers do.

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“Ask people what they think is the ratio of gun homicides to gun suicides in the United States. Most of them will guess that gun homicides are much more common, but the truth is that gun suicides happen about twice as often. The explanation that Kahneman and Tversky offered for this type of judgment error is based on the concept of ‘availability.’ That is, the easier it is for us to recall instances in which something has happened, the more likely we will assume it is. This rule of thumb works pretty well most of the time, but it can lead to big mistakes when frequency and ease of recall diverge. Since gun homicides get more media coverage than gun suicides, people wrongly think they are more likely.”

- Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Thaler in The New Yorker, Dec 7, 2016. Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2002

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