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How To Mentally Time Travel To Create Your Desired Future EP 1306

The School of Greatness

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The Trim Tab

Buckminster Fuller came up with the idea of a "trim tab" to help steer ships in World War II. He attached a four inch piece of metal to the end of rudders, but making them smaller. All you had to do was just turn that small piece a little bit into the oncoming water and it would whip the rudder around.

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