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It wasnât always elegant, or dignified, but the policy of strategic acquiescence seemed to be working, *sort of*. #US arms kept flowing to #Ukraine, an all-out #trade war was averted & #Trump deigned to say some nice things about #NATO.
Then came the strikes on #Caracas, explosions that echoed in capitals around the world. Governments that spent years preaching #restraint, legality & #multilateralism found themselves scrambling for words to express unease without triggering #Trumpâs fury.
âSometimes, the hardest brake to press is the one on your own ambition.â â Futurist Jim Carroll
In the world of leadership and innovation, we are wired for speed.
We obsess over acceleration, growth, and breaking barriers. But I am learning, in a very personal way, that the true test of discipline isn't how fast you can goâit's whether you have the discipline to go slow when every cell in your body screams "faster."
Because this is what you need to do when you have 'minor fractures' of the transverse processes on your spine, as can be seen in my CT scan after my incident in November.
Which means I am currently living with a bit of a physiological paradox.
I'm a guy who, at my age, is in pretty decent physical shape and always VERY active - and now the most important thing I can do is to be intelligently inactive.
Let's start here. I use all the modern tools on my phone to track my fitness and health. And I must admit, I'm in pretty good shape. My resting heart rate averages about 52 beats per minute. That's athlete territory. My heart rate recovery is at the high end of the scale, dropping 38 beats in the first minute after exercise. That's really good! Not only that, but according to Strava, I was in the top 0.4% of all users for hours active last year.
And get this - I lifted a cumulative 884,000 pounds and built a back strong enough to land in the top 20% of all users. Google Gemini tells me that it was probably the fact that the back extensions I do were my **#1** exercise that prevented my fall from being much worse, because I've built up so much muscle back there!
By every metric, my "engine" is primed, tuned, and ready to dominate.
But my "chassis" is currently broken.
Those three small fractures in my L1-L3 vertebrae don't care about my great VO2 Max. They don't care that I lifted a quarter-million pounds with my back muscles last year. They don't care that I spent a whopping 729 workouts last year, a combination of actual fitness routines, walking, and skiing.
They are fragile, healing, and demanding silence.
That means the most important thing I can do at this very moment is not to do much at all.
And for a guy who walks 7k to 15km a day, goes to the gym at least 5 times and week, skis for hours on a day during the winter - this is pretty overwhelming to try to do!
And this is where the leadership lesson hits home.
Keep reading the full post.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is carefully learning that, in some situations, the future belongs to those who are slow.
**#Restraint** **#Discipline** **#Patience** **#Recovery** **#Leadership** **#Resilience** **#Healing** **#Fitness** **#Wisdom** **#SlowDown** **#SmartChoices** **#Mindset** **#SelfControl** **#Strength** **#Balance** **#Perspective** **#Strategy** **#Health** **#Perseverance** **#Growth** **#Awareness** **#Adaptation** **#Focus** **#Endurance** **#Courage**
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-sometimes-the-hardest-brake-to-press-is-the-one-on-your-own-ambition/
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SN 1.24 ManonivÄraášasutta: Shielding the Mind
âYou neednât shield the mind from everything.âŚâ
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A recent inspection report of the Melville Unit at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh highlights serious concerns about the use of physical restraint and forced nasogastric feeding for 12 to 17-year-old patients. The joint inspection by the healthcare watchdog and Mental W... [More info]
#restraint : hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental
- French: contrainte
- German: die Beschränkung
- Italian: restrizione
- Portuguese: restrinção
- Spanish: restricciĂłn
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A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. Itâs a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
Jimmy Carter (b. 1924) American politician, US President (1977-1981), Nobel laureate [James Earl Carter, Jr.]
Speech (1976-10-14), âWarm Hearts and Cool Heads,â Liberal Party of New York Dinner, New York City
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jimmycarter #boasting #bullying #diplomacy #foreignpolicy #foreignrelations #gentleness #helping #insecurity #internationalrelations #nation #restraint #strength #weakness
Kudos for uttering only one swear word during that interview, William. It deserved many more. #NASCAR #Restraint
Adversity makes men; prosperity makes monsters.
[LâadversitĂŠ fait lâhomme, et le bonheur les monstres.]
French proverb
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #frenchproverb #victorhugo #adversity #character #corruption #monsters #power #powercorrupts #problems #prosperity #restraint #struggle #troubles
#Conservatism #History #Restraint #Patience #Power #Greed #lie #Video
CONSERVATISM AT ITS BEST IS PATIENCE, RESTRAINT BUT NOW IT ISNâT ABOUT PROTECTING YOU ITS ABOUT PROTECTING THEM
CONSERVATISM
knowledge is power,
but access ain't permission.
ethics asks restraint.
#haiku #senryu #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #knowledge #power #restraint #SelfRestraint #ethics
A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs. The sentiments of a man while he is full of ardour and hope are to be received, it is supposed, with some qualification. But when the same person has ignominiously failed and begins to eat up his words, he should be listened to like an oracle. Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. And since mediocre people constitute the bulk of humanity, this is no doubt very properly so. But it does not follow that the one sort of proposition is any less true than the other, or that Icarus is not to be more praised, and perhaps more envied, than Mr. Samuel Budgett the Successful Merchant.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1878-03), âCrabbed Age and Youth,â Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 38
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #aphorism #apprehension #cowardice #discouragement #fear #humility #mediocrity #proverb #restraint #saying #wisdom
đ¨ BREAKING: #Google shows rare #restraint by agreeing to blur maps in #South #Korea, proving they can still censor something that isn't user reviews đ. Meanwhile, Wall Street is too busy playing "Stock Market Bingo" to notice as #Nvidia, #Apple, and others continue their daily dance of "What Goes Up Must Come Down (Until Tomorrow)". đđ
https://www.barrons.com/news/google-to-obey-south-korean-order-to-blur-satellite-images-on-maps-653e934e #Censorship #StockMarket #HackerNews #ngated
A quotation (possibly) from Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men; prosperity makes monsters.
[LâadversitĂŠ fait lâhomme, et le boneur les monstres.]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
(Attributed)
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #adversity #character #corruption #monsters #power #powercorrupts #problems #prosperity #restraint #struggle #troubles
Although fear was turning you into a good citizen, fear is only in the short term a teacher of duty; and that unscrupulousness of yours, which never deserts you so long as you are not afraid, has turned you into a scoundrel.
[Quamquam bonum te timor faciebat, non diuturnus magister officii, improbum fecit ea, quae, dum timor abest, a te non discedit, audacia.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 36 / sec. 90 (2.36/2.90) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. Berry (2006)]
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#restraint : hindrance of the will, or of any action, physical or mental
- French: contrainte
- German: die Beschränkung
- Italian: restrizione
- Portuguese: restrinção
- Spanish: restricciĂłn
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