“Rockets — Moon Shots!”

Lord Paul Adam Mudd
Thoughts And Ideas
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12 min readOct 11, 2021

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“Moon-Shot Thinking is not about making a 1% or even a 10% improvement, it’s improving things tenfold (or 10x).”

What’s Going On?

Stories begin where they begin for a reason.

So, how do you sculpt an elephant from a block of marble?

If as the character Dr Pangloss says in Voltaire’s satire l’Optimisme, ‘Candide’, “Everything is possible in the best of all possible worlds”, how then is this possible?

The answer of course is simpler than you might think. You chip away everything that is not elephant!

Archimedes wrote, “Find me a place to stand and I will move the world.”

Whilst the author and theologian, C S Lewis, suggested that what we see and what we hear depends a great deal on where we are standing.

Nonetheless, the single biggest challenge now facing us is not finding that place to stand but choosing where we should go, how we can best achieve this, and having the boldness, courage, and the ‘insight’ & ‘foresight’ to chip away everything that is superfluous to the decisions we make.

The world has been in the grip of a krisis (original Greek spelling) and, “Come to the point at which change must come.”

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Lord Paul Adam Mudd
Thoughts And Ideas

A Lord (Apparently) | Leadership Rockstar (Allegedly) | Philosopher Pirate (Probably) | & Best Selling Author + Writer Huff Post | Thrive Global | Medium (Yes)