changing mind as solution

 So I tried an experiment. If I couldn’t change the circumstance itself, maybe I could change my mind about it— maybe I could change me. I knew that if anyone had a chance at persuading me that this was even possible, it would be me. How I persuaded myself to change despite desperate circumstances is what this book is about.

Very bad people - Patrick Alley

• I hope what you will glean is that the only limites to achieving change are self-imposed.
• "If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room"
• Pol Pot's agrarian revolution demanded the torture and extermination of the country's intellectuals, which included anyone who wore glasses.
• attented their annual general meeting with just as much right as any of the companys biggest shareholders to pose questinos to the companys CEO. Democracy in action in one of the most unlikely settings.
• Tom indulged in one of his investigative tricks. He folded a blank piece of paper, put it into a plain envelope and had it couriered to what he suspected was Bakiyevs Surrey home. The courier's receipt came back. It was signed "Bakiyev".
• We know the media like a hook to hang a story on, and if the Kazakh secret-police chief had laundered money to buy Sherlock Holmes's apartment that would definitely be a nice one.
• The externalized environemnetal costs of key industrial sectors. ... The report concluded that almost no company on Earth would be profitable if they were forced to pay the true environmental costs of their operations.
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