Will It Go Round In Circles? Paying It Forward, One Byte at a Time
What makes people behave as they do? Which belief systems ground and motivate? Which stifle and constrict? How do people work their way through life, either hastened or hindered by what they believe?
Here’s an interesting modern example of this phenomenon and shows the clash between two modern world views in stark relief:
From the BBC: Surrogate Mother Vows to Care for Down’s Syndrome Baby
During my early morning, coffee-driven recreational web browsing, I came across an obituary about a New York City man I knew nothing about, Roy Neuberger, who passed away (12/24/2010) at the incredible age of 107. There’s a wonderful photo accompanying the article, showing Mr. Neuberger, looking stunningly healthy to my eyes, receiving a Medal of Arts from President Bush in 2007 (at the age of 104). Wow!
What, I asked, drove a man to live that long?
Art and the love of business. A successful wedding of Happiness and Purpose.
I found this to be a fascinating life, a story of a man who founded a NY brokerage firm (Neuberger Berman) and experienced 3 market crashes (’29, ’87,’ 2008). And he was also a patron of the arts, who collected (but rarely sold) artworks of living American artists.
It’s worth your time; read the obituary here at the New York Times.