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“HOW YOU LIVE CHANGES YOUR BRAIN.
The brain is the most responsive organ of the body. Actually it is the organ that is most susceptible to change and regeneration of all the organs in the body. I have a friend named Gerald Edelman who was a great scholar of brain studies and he says that the analogy of the brain to a computer is pathetic. The brain is actually more like an overgrown garden that is constantly growing and throwing off seeds, regenerating and so on. And he believes that the brain is susceptible, in a way that we are not fully conscious of, to almost every experience of our life and every encounter we have.”—http://www.miltonglaser.com/pages/milton/essays/es3.html

“Every week, the guys who funded the daily-deals powerhouse Groupon toss out a lottery ticket of sorts and let six completely unvetted entrepreneurs come in and pitch them. They’re calling it “Office Hours,” and while they’re hoping it will help them find the next big thing, they also believe it will simply play a role in juicing up the entrepreneurial community in their home base of Chicago, which, they say, will produce long-term benefits of its own.”—

How Groupon Funders Find Their Next Investment: “Office Hours” | Fast Company

If you’re in the midwest looking for advice - Office Hours are a great way to get to know Lightbank.

Jul 15, 20119 notes

#Lightbank #Chicago #Entrepreneurship #Paul Lee #gtrot

Jul 12, 2011

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“Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”—

Smart friend

I’m so thankful for the people who encourage, inspire and cheer me on.

Jul 6, 20112 notes

#inspiration #quote

“She described a poster on the wall at Facebook: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” She said that it echoed something the writer Anna Quindlen once said, which was that “she majored in unafraid” at Barnard. Sandberg went on, “Don’t let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face—and there will be barriers—be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold. I promise that you will never know what you’re capable of unless you try. You’re going to walk off this stage today and you’re going to start your adult life. Start out by aiming high… . Go home tonight and ask yourselves, What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it! Congratulations.””—Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker

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“I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.”—

Sheryl Sandberg & Male-Dominated Silicon Valley : The New Yorker

Great read!

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