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Embrace Ugly

And get the job done

Mark R. Hamel
Wed, 05/08/2013 - 16:51
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As best as I can recall, I’ve never coined a phrase with any staying power. Until now. And, my phrase has been purposely captured on a T-shirt, by someone other than a close relative. It’s not quite like having my words recorded indelibly in marble and situated in the Parthenon, but I’ll take it.

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Enough gloating. What’s the phrase and what is its etymology?

“Embrace ugly.”

It’s a term I have used frequently with a particular client. Frequently—as in multiple times per day, even multiple times per hour. I repeated the phrase, not only because of its self-entertainment value (yes, I do that), but more importantly to break the client’s paradigm.

You see, they were (note the past tense) chronic and debilitating perfectionists.

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Submitted by umberto mario tunesi on Tue, 05/14/2013 - 19:26

Form vs. Substance

An endless match: who's the winner who takes all? Nor Form, neither Substance: it's the Match. A match that lives of and on itself, that feeds itself. There's a striking example of this way of thinking in the movie "The Battle of the Bulge", starring Henry Fonda, when the german Commander says to his elder subordinate that "war is life", that war must never end. Sad words, I know, and what is "the job to get done"? Thank you.

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