UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of talking extensively with a young Italian opera star, introduced to me by a dear friend — a former MSCO team member — who now lives abroad.

So when do you strike at an enemy? One who wants to destroy you, your family, your business, your career, your country? After they attack you or just in time to stop them from doing so?

This week, the US foiled an Iranian plot to murder diplomats in the U.S. What will we do in response? Don’t say “sanctions”– there’s no such thing as sanctions. Saddam knew that as did Hitler before him.

There is something we all lust for.

There is something we all lust for that we can’t have.

This sets up a collision course between our dreams and the inescapable reality that all of our dreams cannot be fulfilled.

Every place we turn, everywhere we look, there are people who KNOW.
At least that’s what they tell us. They know:
* That the universe was created by a Big Bang
* Why the Dow is nosediving and when it will skyrocket again
* Who is a great president and who is a fraud
* What makes great literature and [...]

When I was a boy, my parents introduced me to organized religion. It didn’t go well. From the start, it became clear that I wasn’t big on anything “organized.”

Through the years however, I searched for the great value religion brings: something grander and greater than yourself to believe in. I always believed in God, but never in the flawed men and women who stood at the lectern and pretended to be His messenger.