WISE ENTERPRISE:

The solution is right under your nose. A modern Russian saga.

TRIZ: The Russian system for resolving irresolvable problems.

FOOD, (excuse us)...CUISINE:

Eat less. Ergo, no recipe this time.

CULTURE: (Music, Reads, Film, Performance)

Music: Astral sense, classical roots. Henri Gorecki: Symphony #3.

Film: The Top 250 Films: get to the best painlessly.
The refreshingly unhip 1951 classic - "A Roman Holiday".

TRAVEL:

"Sanctuaries: The Complete USA"... Retreats and alternative travel abodes.

WISDOM: Crazy or OtherWise

The TopTen Enduring Principles of Crazy Wisdom.

OTHERWISE BRIEFS:

Short-Shorts about what's happening in the OtherWise World

*BARK! Encore. To Meher Baba, Great Soul, who incarnated Feb. 25, 1894, and who loved dogs. All human beings, too.



WISE ENTERPRISE:

The solution is right under your nose.

PUNCH: Here's the Cosmic arrangement.

The Great Mad One creates something out of No-thing, just to set a good example. Original role model. We're supposed to create solutions from the materials and circumstances right under our noses. No complaints or unnecessary sniffing around.

So, hold on... before going for that one extra tool, gizmo, journal, workshop, piece of advice. Use what's around you, under your nose, - and behind it.

WIND-UP:

Terse Saga: In northern Russian village during Communist rule, was need to lower from high platform to ground very BIG electric transformer.

How? Naturally, must to order BIG Soviet industrial crane from Machinery Central.

Crane comes, crane rusted, crane busted. Touff Louck comrades. Villagers mull problem.... how to get transformer to ground??? Is impossible dream, sings chorus of village voices. Rich, deep voices.

Appears village dentist, who for purposes of story, we call him TownWiseFool. He suggests: Let's use what's around us (under our noses).
Villagers propose: We have nothing. WiseFool says: There is almost always something.
In collective and brainless fury, big men started piling logs high, hoping for best. Good and strong men, - great, weak idea.

WiseFool says: But, comrades, we have ice...
Townspeople mutter: What stupid idea. ICE!...
But, good, strong men and women stack ice up to level of transformer.
They push transformer to rest on new village ice platform.
Very beautiful to see. Ice platform. More voices.

Then, comes Sun. Ice slowly melts.
Transformer comes to ground, situation transformed, no problem...

Solutions are right under our noses. Think cosmically, act locally.

TRIZ: The Russian invention system for resolving irresolvable problems.

Thanks for the intelligent parts of above story to James Kowalick, a neighbor and national expert on TRIZ, the Russian-devised system for solving difficult invention problems. As usual, the Russians love the theoretical development and the Americans go for the bottom line possibilities.

If you are a hell-bent problem solver, particularly with an invention gene, or creativity junkie, you can go to the mercilessly unromantic website:

http://www.triz-journal.com/whatistriz.htm

The Russians, in long, studied millions of patents and by observing the various approaches to invention, they synthesized a system for a way to resolve almost any paradoxical problem in the material world.

There are approximately 55 principles.

One of them, for example, is "take something out". So, in the case of tires: they need to be smooth (for gentle riding) and not smooth for traction. You take something out and bingo: treads.

In the coaching world, we often address how to be more productive. One way, rather than making more to do's is "to take out " (produce fewer) distractions.

Stay tuned for future Retrievers where we apply some of these inventive musings to our wise enterprises and life-at-large.



FOOD, (excuse us)...CUISINE:

Like we said...no recipe this time.



CULTURE: (Music, Reads, Film, Performance)

Music: Henryk Gorecki: Symphony No. 3.

If you're needing a recomendation for an afternoon be-bop in your workplace, or have an aversion to tranquility, skip this section.

Gorecki's contemporary "classical" music is deep, otherworldly, yet mysteriously simple in its lines. It's a slow build with no climax. Fax machines do not exist in this world.

Before retiring for the evening, have a listen and give your soul some hints on where to go when your head hits the pillow. (Especially, note movements 2 and 3, which together last 25 minutes and are lighter, more etheric). This recommendation could easily go in the travel section, under astral.

Film: From the Internet Movie Dbase: Top 250: "A Roman Holiday"

You did know about the Internet Movie Database Top 250 film site, yes???

http://us.imdb.com/top_250_films

Now you do... Or just go to http://us.imdb.com for other useful and marginally distracting stuff, regarding films and movies (there is a difference).

Try the 1951 classic "A Roman Holiday": (#141 on the list, which is impressive, given its vintage), if you want to pass an evening with some dignity, romance, fun, wisdom, and are willing to forego a somber or stupid probe into the current issues of the day. Starring the endearing Audrey Hepburn in her first Oscar and youthfully engaging Gregory Peck. Not dated in its themes.

A legato break from these staccato signal times.



TRAVEL

Transitions Abroad

See music section. Gorecki's 3rd Symphony for astral travel.

For out-of-the ordinary terrestial locations in the U.S. we recommend you pick up the guide:

"Sanctuaries: The Complete United States", by Jack & Marsha Kelley, updated 1998.

Just what you think: an OtherWise place to land and re-fresh while on route, or destinations to plan around, when you're feeling that a resort, hotel or a doilied Victorian isn't the thing. From Bell Tower Books, Crown Publisher's OtherWise face. They carry a good, and often practical line for people like you, may we presume.

Get it at:

http://www.wisefools.com/grlinks/grbooks.html

P.S. Going to Kauii in March... Any special place to stay you might recommend?
william@wisefools.com



WISDOM: CRAZY OR OTHERWISE

Originally sent out last year to coaches and clients as an antitdote to the viral spread of too much sage advice (in our lickworthy opinions), the following list of improbables has already tickled some of your knowses. For new and vintage pups, here we go again, so everyone is off the same page.

Top 10 Enduring Principles of Crazy Wisdom:

1. Never trust absolute statements.

2. To be or not to be! That's the answer...so what's the question?

3. Leave a legacy for mankind. Know nothing for 60 seconds.

4. If, by some miracle, you have managed to utter in sequence 3 useful things, take a break.

5. Never take moderation to extremes.

6. If you find yourself on the road to enlightenment...STOP. You've gone too far.

7. At final auction, your personality will sell for far less than you've paid for it.

8. When you discover a Master who points the Way... don't just do something, stand there.

9. Whatever it is, - it will pass.

10. The validity of the above principles expires at the end of this sentence.

William



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