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Wow, this article has set off many sparks in my brain. So many things you have written Ed have resonated with me, others have expanded my own understanding. I particularly loved the Aristotle quotation

"But the virtues we do acquire by first exercising them, just as it happens in the arts. Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it: people become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarly we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones …” True artisans...

What damage did Frederick Winslow Taylor create when he separated 'Intellect from Hand' and we wonder why the business world is in a mess...

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