“Perhaps that wasn’t true. Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Hello,
I’m Peter Cook, and while in reality this blog is a collection of somewhat random ideas I’ve had the poor taste to write about, if this site could aspire to a theme, it would be what I term “Escape Velocity”.
To understand what I mean by Escape Velocity, it’s useful to start with the definitions of two physics terms:
Inertia: a characteristic of an object that resists changes to its state of motion.
Escape Velocity: in physics (specifically, celestial mechanics), escape velocity is the minimum speed needed for a free object to escape from the gravitational influence of a massive body.
For me, Escape Velocity describes what’s required to transcend the inertia in our lives and achieve, different, better and sustainable outcomes:
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