Richard Ian Porter

Tag: Purpose

  • Oh, Happy (X) Day

    Oh, Happy (X) Day

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    My birthday is rapidly approaching, so is the Marine Corps birthday and veteran’s day. This used to be kind of fun. Now it feels very depressing. “Happy birthday! Happy veteran’s day! Happy Marine Corps birthday! Thank you for your service!” When I observe most people saying this I feel they do so from a self-serving…

  • We will never arrive

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    Arrival bias is a powerful thing. It’s that thing in your mind telling you “I just need to get one more thing done. THEN everything will be good. I just need to buy one more object, then life will feel better. I just need to accomplish one more task. I just need to catch up…

  • To be a leader: deliver victory, share in the suffering

    To be a leader: deliver victory, share in the suffering

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    IBM is doing this wrong. The Marine Corps has done this right and it has done it wrong in its past too. How can we learn from this? This direct quote seems relevant here “How much more am I worth to IBM than that guy down at the bottom of the pay scale? Twice as…

  • Grow Powerful People

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    I’ve settled on a more concise way to say it. It’s not that the way I had been articulating my mission is wrong. It’s more that it was longer than it needed to be and more of a how than a why. My why is to grow powerful people. My how is by learning and…

  • “Tell me about yourself”

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    My mission is to grow powerful people. To do this I learn, teach, and mentor so that they can better survive and thrive. I’m passionate about purpose, people, context and culture. I’m driven, and really always have been, to help people survive and thrive by understanding knowledge. I’ve always been hungry to learn more, know…