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The Monday Morning Memo

Paired Opposites and Third Gravitating Bodies*

A Gravitating Body is anything that tugs at your attention.

Two gravitating bodies with a high degree of divergence are known as Paired Opposites. 

Employ them and you’ll get attention.

But when you add a third gravitating body – something highly divergent from both of the first two – and it fits – you are Lin-Manuel Miranda.

First Gravitating Body:
A musical about the Founding Fathers

Second Gravitating Body:
George Washington is black and most of the other “white” characters are played by minorities as well.

Third Gravitating Body:
The dialogue is delivered in rap music, with each character having their own cadence and style.

The degree of divergence is determined by how unexpected a thing is.
Its power of convergence is determined by how well it fits.

This formula is known to all the Cognoscenti of Magical Worlds.

 

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Random Quote:

“Stuart flew to Tulsa, summoned everyone to the radio station, packed us all into the conference room and said, “People who work in Christian media often see and hear things that discourage them.” His face fell and he looked sad as he said, “And then they become bitter.”

I could tell he was struggling to find the right words as he looked down at the ground. After a long silence he looked up into my eyes and said, “Promise me that you’ll never become bitter.”

I looked into his eyes and nodded my head. One by one, he looked at every other employee until they nodded their head or said aloud, “I promise I’ll never become bitter.”

When he had extracted that solemn promise from each of us, he drove back to the airport and flew home.

It was a very short meeting that happened 40 years ago but I have never forgotten it.”

- Roy H. Williams in the Monday Morning Memo for Sept 19, 2022

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