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Astronomy & Cosmos

Black holes, north stars, supernovas, moonshots — the language of the sky, mined relentlessly for business strategy, leadership advice, and self-help.

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Big Bang

The origin event of anything — the moment it all started.

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Black Hole

Anything that absorbs whatever enters it and gives nothing back.

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Eclipse

To overshadow or outshine — usually unwillingly on the eclipsed party's part.

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Meteoric Rise

A spectacularly fast ascent — almost always misused, since real meteors fall.

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Moonshot

An audacious, expensive, low-odds project pursued because the prize is enormous.

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North Star

A guiding principle — the thing you steer by when everything else is shifting.

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Stellar

Exceptional — though so overused the metaphor is nearly dead.

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The Goldilocks Zone

The narrow band where conditions are 'just right' — not too much, not too little.