“If you’re too worried about the past, you can’t see the future.” Jordan Olson 18-Feb-16 My daughter Jordan reads my posts on occasion and even comments. She’s nine going on thirteen. Every now and again she comes to me with ideas about a post or some thought-provoking my interest. Just last night she asked if… Read More
Leveraging Our Interactions
Our paradigms are the beliefs about how our world works and ultimately guides our actions. As Andrew Bernstein points out in The Myth of Stress, “We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we believe them to be.” Thus, if we can change or alter our paradigm to better integrate into our… Read More
Seeking the Best in Ourselves
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have these because we have acted rightly; ‘these virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions’; we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a… Read More