April 10, 2012—SnyderTalk Editorial: Don’t Impose Your Limitations on God

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Don’t Impose Your Limitations on God

I taught leadership at UVA for more than two decades, and I’ve led hundreds of executive seminars on the subject. I’ve also written two books on leadership and consulted with people in business and government. One simple fact stands out as I consider the evidence gleaned from my experience. Every one of us is afflicted by the same arrogance gene. We think we understand things perfectly most of the time, even though the evidence tells us otherwise.

I used a couple of exercises in my classes and seminars to drive this point home. The first one involved asking participants to describe what they saw in the picture below. Their responses ran the gamut. Some of them saw a kitten; others saw a satellite photograph of the earth; still others saw a telescopic photograph of the moon; while others saw a lady’s face.

Then I would ask, “Does anyone see a cow in the picture?” Typically, 1 in 10 people can see the cow in the picture on their own, and 1 in 10 people will never see it. I can’t explain why. After I outlined the cow for the group, 8 out of 10 people who could not see it on their own would say, “I see it, I see it.”

Once you’ve seen the cow in the picture, it’s virtually impossible not to see it, and it really is a picture of a cow. It’s not a good picture, though. If it were, the exercise wouldn’t work. You’ll find the picture at the end of this SnyderTalk post with the cow’s face outlined and circled.

It took one more question to make my point. I asked someone in the group who thought she saw a satellite photograph, for instance, what the picture was before she saw the cow. Without fail, she (or he) would say, “Before I saw the cow, it was a satellite photograph.”

My response was slow and deliberate: “It was a picture of a cow all the time, and your seeing it did not make it what it is.”

This exercise had a powerful impact. There is a reality over which we have no control, and it is not dependent on our seeing it. If we hope to achieve our goals, our decisions must be consistent with reality.

If your traditions and assumptions about reality are off-base or incorrect and you persist in spite of that fact, eventually you will fail. In the short-run, you may be able to convince some or even most people that your view is correct, but reality will win in the end. Therefore, you should be willing to change course when new and/or better information indicates that you are wrong.

For some people, having to admit they are wrong is a fate worse than death. As I said, arrogance is a serious problem with which we must come to grips. If we don’t, we will not be able to achieve the goals God set for us.

This is an excerpt from What Will You Do with the Rest of Your Life?

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Jeremiah 51: 16-19

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens, and He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain and brings forth the wind from His storehouses. All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his molten images are deceitful, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work of mockery; in the time of their punishment they will perish. The portion of Jacob is not like these; for the Maker of all is He, and of the tribe of His inheritance; Yahweh Sabaoth is His name.

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Berlin politicians split over Grass travel ban—German minister calls Israel’s response to poem “exaggerated”; Merkel party spokesman: J’lem faces “existential threat.”
‘Iran nuclear program must be stopped completely’—Opposition leader Mofaz tells visiting Italian PM anyone who thinks Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful is “deluding himself.”
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‘Iran won’t accept pre-conditions to nuke talks’
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J’lem: Thousands attend priestly blessing at Kotel
New blast hits Egypt gas pipeline to Jordan, Israel
Analysis: Islamic finance pressured to go mainstream

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A Diplomatic Outcome with Iran Acceptable to Israel—In two Passover interviews, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined the diplomatic outcome with Iran that Israel could live with.
Muslim Brotherhood: We Will Not Put Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty to Referendum—”We will not put the Camp David accords or any other agreement Egypt has signed to a national referendum,” said Muslim Brotherhood member of parliament Abd Al-Maujood Al-Dardiri on Friday.
Report: Israel Threatens to Strike Militants If Egypt Fails to Secure Sinai—Israel has warned Egypt that it would take action against militants in Sinai if Cairo did not take responsibility and secure the countries’ shared border, Egyptian officials indicated on Saturday.
Egypt to Deploy More Troops in Northern Sinai—The Egyptian government announced on Saturday that, in cooperation with Israel, it has started deploying troops in northern Sinai to stop anarchy and terror there.
Germany official: Israel’s reaction to Grass’ criticism ‘exaggerated’—German Health Minister criticizes Nobel laureate for his controversial poem, saying it was sad to see that someone experienced post-war Germany ‘remains marked by so much prejudice and stubbornness.’
Top Iran army official: No country would dare strike us—Comment by head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ ground forces comes despite comments by Iran’s nuclear chief, who hinted at possible compromise ahead of talks with West.
Former Iran president criticizes Ahmadinejad ahead of nuclear talks—Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the country’s Expediency Discernment Council, urges Supreme Leader to engage in direct talks with U.S.
Abbas to Netanyahu: Respond favorably to Palestinian peace plan or we return to UN—Abbas gave the PM a month to respond to the Palestinian positions, which will be laid out in a letter to be delivered to Netanyahu next Wednesday during a Jerusalem meeting with Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad.
Report: Fire from Syria border clashes hits refugee camp in Turkey—Turkish officials say bullets hitting Kilis refugee camp originate from clashes between Syrian soldiers and rebel fighters near Turkey’s Kilis province.
Minister Vilnai ready to start ambassadorship in Beijing – but he’s still stuck in Jerusalem—Home Front Minister won’t be able to assume his next post until August, because current ambassador Amos Nadai has no plans to leave his post early.
Report shows widening gap between Ethiopian pupils and other Israelis—Education Ministry report finds the largest gaps among the oldest pupils tested, those in eight grade, while the gaps among younger students tested, in fifth and second grade, were significantly smaller.
U.S. deploys aircraft carrier in Gulf, as West prepares for Iran nuclear talks—The battleships will support the American military operations in Afghanistan and anti-piracy efforts off Somalia’s coast and in the Gulf of Aden, and also patrol the Gulf’s strategic oil routes that Iran has threatened to shut down in retaliation for economic sanctions.
Iran hints at compromise offer ahead of nuclear talks with West—Iran’s nuclear chief Fereidoun Abbasi told state TV late Sunday thatTehran could stop its production of 20 percent enriched uranium needed for a research reactor, and continue enriching uranium to lower levels for power generation.
Syrian forces have carried out more than 100 extrajudicial executions, says rights group—Government forces have carried out killings of civilians and opposition fighters in Homs and Idlib often in broad daylight and in front of witnesses, according to Human Rights Watch report.

Israel Hayom:

Gunter Grass’ delusions—In his subconscious, the author needs Israel to wipe out the Iranian people, because the day Israel exterminates 80 million people will be the day that Grass – in his own delusional mind – will finally be acquitted in the court of history.
Obama is playing make-believe—Obama needs to understand that Iran hasn’t deviated a centimeter from its goal: nuclear weapons.
After rejecting US demands, Iran proposes nuclear compromise—Iranian nuclear chief suggests Tehran could stop production of 20% enriched uranium and continue lower-level uranium enrichment • Announcement comes after Iran first rejects U.S. demands prior to talks set to begin on Friday in Istanbul.
Israeli politicians continue to call for Pollard’s release—”I pray for Jonathan’s health and hope to see him free soon, and return to his family and his people,” Vice Prime Minister Moshe (Bogey) Ya’alon tweets • Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has done much to work for Pollard’s release and will continue.
‘Charity raised money for Holocaust survivors, then stole it’—Police raid Hazon Yeshaya, which calls itself a humanitarian group, following complaints from donors and the Claims Conference • “Charity” workers used donations to buy tons of meat, sell to ultra-Orthodox community at discount, and pocket the profits.
Netanyahu slated to present security arrangements to Fayyad—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, deliver letter detailing requirements “necessary to protect Israeli citizens” • PA President Mahmoud Abbas warns Israeli delegation in Ramallah he will again appeal to U.N.
New blast hits Egypt gas pipeline serving Jordan, Israel—No group has claimed responsibility for attacking the installation that crosses the increasingly volatile Sinai Peninsula • This is the 14th attack on the pipeline since former President Hosni Mubarak was ousted.
IDF chef in hot water for heating up Passover meal—Soldiers returning from mission discover that traditional Passover meal was replaced by matzah and cold cuts because army chef heated up food after the holiday began • Kashrut supervisor orders food thrown out, while cook is court-martialed.
‘For Israel, Suleiman would be the best Egyptian president’—MK Benjamin Ben-Eliezer says that if Muslim Brotherhood candidate wins Egypt’s presidential election, Israel-Egypt peace treaty could be in jeopardy • Muslim Brotherhood candidate: Suleiman’s entry is an insult to the revolution.
Syria scuttles truce plan with new demands—U.N. plan for peace in Syria upended by sudden Assad government demands for written guarantees from opposition fighters • Free Syrian Army commander says the group is ready for truce, but cannot give written guarantee to regime it does not recognize.

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John Ransom: For This Old Socialist, Maxine Waters, Socialism Starts at Home—What Maxine was trying to say, yet not say at the same time, was that she would be all about socializing the oil industry, like her friend Hugo Chavez did down in Venezuela. Now she can’t wait until she gets a crack at, uh, uh, uh, Wall Street.
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Fred Hiatt: Why freedom is low on the agenda—Obama has missed obvious chances to help promote democracy.
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The Story Unravels: New Questions about Trayvon Martin’s Final Hour: Jeff Lipkes—With new evidence, the idea that Trayvon Martin was simply returning from a selfless errand when he caught Zimmerman’s eye appears less and less likely.
Time to Stop Being Intimidated by the Left: Steve McCann—Over the past twenty years, the American left has been largely successful in intimidating much of the conservative movement and creating the false impression that leftists are much smarter and thus able to stay one step ahead.
Textbooks Behaving Badly: Ed Kaitz—Are academic textbooks important in deciding the fate of nations? If so, America is in big trouble.
Obama Will Say and Do Anything: W.A. Beatty—Lying. Dissembling. Peddling half-truths. Redefining words. Those words/phrases describe what President Barack Hussein Obama has said or done and is now saying or doing.
Unelected EPA Bureaucrats Approve E15 Ethanol: Peter Wilson—Believe it or not, Obama administration energy policy got even worse last week.
U.N. Report: Happiness Is…World Socialism: Daren Jonescu—According to the United Nations’ new “World Happiness Report,” European socialism is the road to well-being, and it ought to be imposed on all mankind.
New Black Panthers ‘booted, suited, and armed’ for coming ‘race war’: This crop of New Black Panther leaders make Stokely Carmichael look like a Sister of Mercy.
White House Won’t Let Rep. Issa Question Key Staffer About Fast and Furious: How exactly does Executive Privilege apply in this situation?
White House stealthily diverts $500 million to IRS for Obamacare enforcement: Guess the Democrats forgot to mention the new, unimproved, vastly expanded IRS that the taxpayer will have to deal with when they were pushing Obamacare two years ago.
How Obama’s ‘Recovery Act’ paid for transferring military technology to Russia: Incompetence is the charitable explanation.
Yippee! Free government money! Come and get it!: Is this the most offensive ad from the federal government ever?
MoveOn.org Exploits Trayvon to Bring Down 1%: No shame on the left.
Hillary’s Plan B: In the middle of the battle for this year’s Republican nomination, a curiously irrelevant diversion has appeared. Suddenly, we’re told, a “Hillary 2016” bandwagon has sprung up out of nowhere.
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Clearing the Way for the Taliban: Rick Moran—Obama cedes U.S. control over vital counter-terrorism measure in Afghanistan….
More Obama Leaks to Sabotage Israel?: P. David Hornik—Administration realizes the moment of truth on Iran is quickly approaching. …
Justice Kagan’s Ineligibility to Rule on ObamaCare: Arnold Ahlert—Legislation’s fate in the hands of a woman who should have recused herself….
Günter Grass Goes From Bad to Verse: Bruce Bawer—Former Nazi and Nobel Prize winner’s latest poem shows his hatred for Jews is alive and well. …
Muslim Grave Desecration and Jihad: Robert Spencer—How the desecration of graves in Libya relates to the Islamic supremacist project….
How Obama Destroys His Enemies: Ben Shapiro—The latest strategy….
Egyptian Cleric: It’s an ‘Obligation to Cheat at Elections’: Raymond Ibrahim—For the Islamist movement, democracy is but a means to a greater end….
Israel: The Only Safe Place for Christians in the Middle East: Mark D. Tooley—Religious Left goes on full attack after Israeli ambassador exposes who the real oppressors of the Palestinians are. …
Forcing Our Preferences on Others: Walter Williams—The tragedy of our increasing tolerance of coercive government. …

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Israel bans Grass, calls to strip him of Nobel Prize—Israel has branded German poet Günter Grass “persona non grata”, amid calls he be stripped of his Nobel Prize. But did Grass really inflame hatred against the Israeli people, or has he fallen victim to the politicization of taste?
North Korean nuclear test: South’s ‘election ploy’—South Korean intelligence has claimed it has information the North is on the cusp of another nuclear experiment following its imminent rocket launch. Experts and politicians have refuted the reports, disregarding them as election tactics.
Social network miracle: Siberian plane crash victim found alive a week later (PHOTOS)—A UTair plane crash survivor who was assumed dead has been found alive in a hospital. Information emerged on the man’s social network page, where friends have been mourning his death for a week.
N.Korea to conduct underground nuclear test – security reports—It has already alarmed the world with its imminent rocket launch. But now it also appears that North Korea is on the verge of executing another underground nuclear test.
Legal concern: Muslim Brotherhood files last-minute back-up candidate—The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s top political force, has put up its back-up presidential candidate just a day before the doors of the Electoral Commission closed. They fear their first pick may be disqualified from the race on legal grounds.
Iran faces arm-twisting demands ahead of key nuclear talks—The six-party party talks on Iran’s nuclear program, called “the last chance” by the West, may now be in jeopardy. The new requirements by the US and Israel towards Iran’s nuclear program have been rejected by the country as “irrational.”
Syria threatens pullout from ceasefire deal unless given ‘written guarantees’—The Syrian government may not withdraw its army units from cities on Tuesday, if it does not receive a written pledge signed by opposition groups to observe the ceasefire. Free Syrian Army refuses the demand.
TV presenter eggnogged over neo-Nazi guest (VIDEO)—A Greek TV host has become the target of a massive egg-and-yoghurt attack carried out by leftist activists angry that he had invited a member of a neo-Nazi party onto his show the previous week.
Anonymous takes down UK Home Office website—Notorious hacktivist group Anonymous has taken down the UK Home Office website. The group owned up to the attack via Twitter, saying it was launched over “draconian surveillance proposals.”

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Iran not to accept any precondition to nuclear talks—Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that his country will not accept any precondition to the P5+1 nuclear talks slated for April 14.
China CPI growth rebounds to 3.6 pct in March—China’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.6 percent year on year in March, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday.
Japan: interceptors deployed for DPRK satellite launch—Japan completed deployment of interceptor missiles Monday ahead of the planned satellite launch by the DPRK, the Defence Ministry said.
Annan to visit Syrian refugee camps in Turkey—Kofi Annan is set to visit the camps sheltering Syrian refugees in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay on Tuesday, local media reported on Monday.

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Strangers in a Stranger Land: Victor Davis Hanson—Truth is now “truth,” a socially-constructed commodity, defined by power, and predicated on race, class, and gender.
An Open Letter to Günter Grass: David P. Goldman—How shameful for a former SS man to denounce Israel as a threat to world peace when Iran publicly threatens to annihilate the Jewish state.
Congressional Dem Incumbents: Who Are the Most Vulnerable?: Rich Baehr—GOP looks poised to take the Senate and to increase the House lead.
The Unforgiven: Richard Fernandez—Perhaps the greatest obstacle to faith isn’t accepting the possibility of a loving God so much as believing that anything could exist which could love us.
That ‘Inadvertent’ Editing at NBC: Rand Simberg—Why should we believe a network that commits serial transgressions against decent journalism?
The Moderate U.S. Establishment Position? That the Muslim Brotherhood Might Be Moderate: Barry Rubin—The Washington Post continues to talk relatively sensibly about Middle East developments. And yet its latest editorial also shows the type of contortions necessary to avoid facing the awful truth of the situation in the region.

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Barack Obama and Racial Double Standards: Peter Wehner—Late last week I heard from a theologian of liberal leanings, someone with whom I have been in (often friendly) correspondence for years. He wrote me to voice his objections to my recent “diatribes” against President Obama.
M.J. Rosenberg Out at Media Matters: Alana Goodman—Under pressure from the pro-Israel community, embattled former Media Matters for America fellow M.J. Rosenberg has finally parted ways with the left-wing media watchdog group.
John Derbyshire and National Review: Why It Had to Happen: John Podhoretz—Over the weekend, my friend Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review, was forced into a parting of the ways with his magazine’s and website’s long-time contributor, John Derbyshire.
Why Santorum Won’t Drop Out Now: Jonathan S. Tobin—Rick Santorum celebrated Easter and spent time with his family this weekend. He’ll spend Monday with his hospitalized 3-year-old daughter Bella whose fight for life has been an inspiring and sympathetic parallel journey to his campaign since its inception.

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