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One of Steve Jobs’ favour­ite phrases whilst he was mind­fuck­ing his employ­ees dur­ing the early 80s was “let’s make a dent in the uni­verse,” with the addendum, “oth­er­wise why even be here?” He appar­ently lured John Scul­ley away from Pepsi with the line “Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life?” More recently he addressed Stan­ford gradu­ates, speak­ing about his mer­cur­ial ride with the com­put­ing industry, a brush with death, and an innate desire to always make a pos­it­ive impact. Des­pite his obvi­ous per­sonal flaws, I’m impressed that the CEO if a For­tune 500 com­pany could remain so idealistic.

I guess that’s just a very long-winded way of say­ing that my new year’s res­ol­u­tion is to “be less cyn­ical”. And to achieve that I’m going to fol­low the 50 actions in “Change the World for Ten Bucks Pretty Woman move

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” (not sur­pris­ingly $10).

I’ve already done some of the actions, so to increase the chal­lenge, I have to try and achieve all of actions this cal­en­dar year.

We’ll see how this goes.