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Something happens along the way.

We are born innovators, visionaries, and creators

with powerful intellectual curiosity. But,  we are guided

away from our interests, talents and gifts to become

the 'what' of who’s getting hired and 'when,'  ( hire-education ). The results of wasted, exploited, human potential results in unnecessary suffering.​​

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"There comes a time where we need to stop

just pulling people out of the river. We need to

go upstream and find out why they're falling in."

Desmond Tutu

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You're not alone, foolish or weird.

The world needs who you were meant to be. Your North Star Is Focus.

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​"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; 

Genius hits a target no one else can see."

Arthur Schopenhauer

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At a time perhaps like no other,

people around the world are considering their purpose in life, their 'Why' — their Calling.

Data and the "Big Quit" tells us people hate

their jobs, and it's not just the job, it's the work itself.

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Microsoft research found 41% of the global workforce plan to leave their jobs. College students often feel lost at graduation. 'What

and When' thinking leaves leaders stagnating in

the old, along with the rest of us.

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From a posting on

The Daily Dot 6/22/22

"I don't  know if you guys are on LinkedIn, but

the amount of people with more degrees and

years of experience than me who are being 

laid off by the thousands is so disheartening.

I don't feel hopeful at all about starting to job

hunt and start a career in anything because

these people have a 10-year jump on me and

here they are, entering a recession, getting

laid off and I'm here just fully unemployed.

It's bad out there."

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Rahel, 17, Cologne,

for DW by Peter Hille

"I want a secure future where I can study

and work without existential fears. I'm afraid

I'll have to work in a job that doesn't make me happy."

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We live in a world that

fawningly invests in innovation and creativity 

without investing in the disruptive potential

and promise of visionary beings. Imagine the

people in the post above in therapy, wondering

what is wrong with them, when in fact they may

have yet to actually meet their true selves.

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Why Smart People Hurt,

by Eric Maisel, explores these impediments.

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…society and the world disparages smartness.

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…doing work day after day and year after year

that fails to make use of your brain power.

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…living in a society and a world that does more

than disparage smartness, that actually silences

smart people ( because the power and privilege

of leaders is undercut by smart people like you

pointing out fraud, illogic, and injustice ).

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Medicating Our Children?

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​Why aren't we teaching this?

Discover your Calling. Develop your Calling.

For a life well lived, use your Calling for a better

you and a better world.

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​Why are we medicating and stigmatizing our

young? Instead of asking our children what they

want to be when they grow up, ( or funneling

them into market-world options )ask them what

world problems they would want to prevent

when they grow up.

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Ask them 'Why' these problems exist. Ask them

'How' these problems persist. Ask them 'How' these problems are perpetuated. They grow to think, ​

innovate and be themselves.

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What if education actually helped students 

identify their unique interests and talents

and nurtured those talents over the years?

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In times of change the learned deal with a world

that no longer exists. We live in a world that grades students on how well they learn the answers

we give them. Perhaps we should grade students

on the questions they ask. It's time for students

to grade the curriculum.

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"Children are the living message we send to a

time we will not see."

John F. Kennedy

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​"Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness;

but direct them to it by what amuses their minds,

so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each."

Plato

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"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

Plutarch

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"I can prove at any time that my education tried to

make another person out of me than the one I became."

Franz Kafka.

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Let's build the new with

'Why and How' thinking.

(The foundation of deiterLIne)

 

'Why and How' succeeds. 

​"Intellectuals ( 'What and When' ) solve problems.

Geniuses ( 'Why and How' ) prevent them."

Albert Einstein

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​Nearly everyday of our lives we hear, "What

are you going to do and when?" And yet, very

little, if anything, changes. Change has almost

come to mean four quarters for a dollar, prolonging stagnation and little advancement for civilization.

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​​Let's cease pestering this 'What and When' world

to change. Let's simply build the new with 'Why

and How', your new ideas and ways of doing things.

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​'What and When' reacts to symptoms and

confuses activity with accomplishment.

 

​'Why and How' thinking replaces discipline and toughness.

'Why and How' focusses on first principles, 

completes and succeeds. 'Why and How' is the foundation of deiterLine. 

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​"The defining challenge of our time is to create solid

and sustained economic growth that  continues to

meaningfully improve people's lives."

Dambisa Moyo, Edge of Chaos

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"Our economy rewards trivia and ephemera

over originality and long-term impact."

Michael Bhaskar, Human Frontiers The Future of Big Ideas in an

Age of Small Thinking.

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"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy,

not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

Dan Millman — Way of the Peaceful Warrior

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"We cannot solve our problems with the same

thinking we used when we created them. The

world as we have created it is a process of

our thinking. It cannot be changed without

changing our thinking."

Albert Einstein

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Focus and Simplicity

deterLine is a unique, free platform to help you discover, focus and articulate what is meaningful

to you and your purpose, 'Your ‘Why'.

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To help you not quit, the deiterLine subscription

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Focus mitigates chaos. Clarity, the sustaining motivation to succeed, gives you peace of mind.

Peace of mind gives you the time you say you

never have to  be who you truly are and succeed.

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The Empowerment of Calm,

powerful clarity of purpose

An essential deiterLine benefit turns out to be

the calm people experience from polishing their

Callings with deiterLine's elegant interface.

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In any moment of doubt, or discouragement, 

even at 3:00 in the morning, you can check

your deiterLine. Calm, of clarity and purpose,

turns out to be your superpower.

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With your clarity and sense of purpose, you

inspire yourself and others throughout the day.​

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