When many people begin parkour, they look at specific techniques and try and learn them. This is what I did, this is what most people do, this is how I have taught up until now.
Now when someone comes out to train and asks which technique we are going to learn first, my response will be:
none.
Do you use a RSS reader such as Google Reader? Do you find yourself with a pileup of blog posts to read? Are you often distracted from a task by perusing your reader? Cut the fat.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of great blogs to read and RSS is a great time saver. But I just did some spring cleaning of subscriptions and it feels so good. Cutting out those blogs which have rarely offer something of value to you, or are maybe interesting sometimes but not really worthwhile. Cut it out. Over time all of these subscriptions can build up and become a time drain.
If this blog is one of those, it won’t offend me. But if you are subscribed to the main feed, consider subscribing to just one of the categories first 
We all know the guy who is living in a fairy tale. He sees life as it should be, unbound by reality, and is often brought back to it. And then we know the girl who brutally honest and realistic. While true, shes doesn’t inspire much. I think between these two is the perfect state for life, and for business.
Many people have commented that with Republic’s acquisitions of Midwest and Frontier will lead to many if not all of their network partners, for who they provide regional flight services, to cancel or not renew their contracts.
This is absurd. Network carriers will only cancel or not renew their contracts if Republic provides a poor service or if they can get better prices elsewhere. They don’t care if the company which owns their regional partner also owns an airline which competes with them as long as their regional partner is saving them money.
Hey business guys ever tried explaining something to an engineer and they just didn’t get it? Or the other way around, you engineers just can’t get something across to a thick headed business guy?
You people who are trying to accomplish something creative, why do artists, musicians, and designers tell you that your not doing it right but when they explain their creative philosophies or rigid structures in which creativity must take place, why does it never make sense?
So I came across this article the other day about General Aviation Entrepreneurship.
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2010/02/08/338060/big-vision-at-small-airfields.html
I may be partial, but this is really exciting stuff, and exactly what we need to see more of!
Persistence. Is it working hard and not giving up? Sure. When you are starting a new venture you must work ridiculously hard and not give up. But many people do this, but aren’t persistent. They lose steam after a while and sell out or shut down. I think the definition of persistent is refusing to lose.
Parkour Generations have announced that they will have a parkour training facility which can be folded up and moved. Full article is here. The really interesting thing here is the little tidbit about it being up for retail soon. This is the first (that I know of) retail parkour structure.
For the longest time I wanted to make a business out of parkour because it combines two of my passions. However, the parkour community is a bit apprehensive to commercialization. I am not against commercialization, but I think there are plenty of people who would take advantage of the parkour community to make a quick buck (WorldWideJam). And I didn’t want to be associated with hose types of people, so I have patiently waited until I had an idea which fit the time for something which would build real value for the parkour community and which I could run profitably.
Well I know this doesn’t quite fit into my criteria of blog topics. But Embry-Riddle is giving out free upgrades to Windows 7. Unfortunately my hard drive will be wiped. I have a decent sized flash drive where I’ll be able to back up the most important stuff. But I want to take this opportunity to reinvent my computer usage.
I attempted to make this into a video post, but AVI was a huge file size and WMV was coming up choppy. So for now yall will have to miss the sight of my beautiful face!
What I want to open a discussion on today is specialty vs. jack-of-all-trades. It seems to be common wisdom that one should focus on what they are good at and what they like doing. Division of labor. And I absolutely agree… 95% of the time.
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