A quick search on the internet reveals something staggering. If not calamitous. At least for those in search of wisdom and truth. Those responsible for the university curricula have capitulated to a minority. It is always a minority who claim that the dead white guy be absent from their studies. I write ‘calamitous’ because a […]
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The seduction of noise. Do an online search and you can see a 21st century way of conceptualizing our addiction to distraction: noise pollution. Researchers have studied the effects of noise pollution and discovered its surprisingly broad impact upon adults and children. But the subject of this piece is even more insidious. Truthfully, is there any
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Why do you pray? “Why do you pray?” “Because it is the only way I can figure out who I am.” My surprising response to my friend’s rhetorical question was heartfelt Perhaps it was too weighty to be understood by one who had not, like me, chosen to spend a large segment of their life
Perfect timing. Does such a thing exist outside of Tom Brady’s perfectly thrown and received football passes? Or Steph Curry’s three point basketball shots? Or does such a thing as perfect timing really exist? Perhaps, or if not perfect, nearly so. But of even of more interest to you and me is that the timing
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Stanley McChrystal: 9/11 and leadership Leadership. Thousands-maybe hundreds of thousands, of books and articles have been written about it. Still the questions abound. Primarily these five: Despite the conflicting opinions about the genesis of the leader or whether leadership behaviors can be taught and learned, we know it when we see it. Sometimes we recognize
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Despite the bad reviews, the 15:17 to Paris is worth your time. Before you head out to see it however, you should know the reviewers were right in more than a few of their critical comments. So why am I writing that you should see a movie despite the bad reviews? The justifiably bad reviews?
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A life of one’s own Sound familiar? A Life of One’s Own? Maybe you’re thinking of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, as was I until I learned more about a book published in the 1930’s. I’d never heard of Marion Milner, a British psychoanalyst and writer who embarked on a seven year experiment in
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How to avoid the amygdala hijack The amygdala hijack. Right. Avoiding it sounds like something we need to do but why is that exactly? It’s a cool phrase coined by Daniel Goleman in his 1996 book Emotional Intelligence: Why It can Matter More Than IQ. And describes the eruption that occurs when someone steps on
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Are you living your life or someone else’s? Ever asked yourself that question? Silly question? And thinking it impossible to live another’s life? Humor me. For just a few minutes, please. From childhood, we learn by mimicking, listening, reading, studying the words and actions of others. We learn too from experimenting with tools, ideas and attitudes:
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3 thoughts on work…maybe not a topic you want to think about on a Sunday, or any day? Dreams of retirement being far more alluring. Or is retirement all that it’s cracked up to be? I think not. Here are my 3 thoughts on work: Starting from the top, the body’s need for exercise and
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