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Carrots Aren’t for Everybody
e rst lesson of economics is scarcity, there is never enough of
anything to satisfy all those who want it … rst lesson of politics is
to ignore the rst lesson of economics.
omas Sowell
IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE WOULD BE DOING IT
To borrow from omas Sowell’s insight above, the process mind knows
that long-term sustainable growth is only available through process and,
yet, it recognizes that this growth is regularly trumped by daily, reght-
ing realities driven by a short-term view that manifests itself in the dic-
tum, “make the month.” It seems that all the elements of the process mind
are valid until the f ...