Take the Path of Most Resistance challenge clarity growth mindset Jul 28, 2021
I love analogies. They are most helpful in explaining our world. Take, for example, the behavior of electrons. Remember that all atoms are the building blocks of all physical matter. We know this through centuries of scientific experimentation. In recent years we've even been able to make the world'...
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Failure is the Great Educator clarity courage failing forward growth mindset Jul 20, 2021
In my weekly quote post on Monday, we put up a great one from Isabella Stuart Gardener; "Win as though you were used to it, and lose as if you like it."…Simple but profound. ISG was an eccentric patron of the arts. She and her husband built the ISG Museum in Boston, home to her collection and life's...
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Life is not a Zero-Sum Game clarity courage growth mindset Jul 15, 2021

I remember exactly where I was when I first heard the term Zero-Sum game. It was Dr. Palmer’s class in Analog Computing. Our lab had to configure multiple operational amplifiers to create a scaled amplifier where one input was the signal to be amplified, and the other input was the amplification mul...

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In Joy, In My Self freedom mindset motivation Jul 06, 2021

Waiting. It’s the bane to our existence; Waiting in lines, waiting for the mail, waiting for acknowledgment, waiting for wealth, waiting for the next shoe to drop.

To live in the moment is a practice of inward observation and reflection. Living in the moment doesn’t mean not having goals for the fu...

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Bread and Circuses connection growth mindset Jun 30, 2021
 The metonymic quote attributed to the first-century poet Juvenal is, "Give them bread and circuses, and they will never revolt." At the time, pagan Rome was deteriorating. The political sentiment was one of appeasing the growing restlessness of the masses. Whether intentional or not, the tiny devic...
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Congruence and Creation congruence growth mindset Jun 23, 2021

How often do you stop to think, and I mean deeply think, about what you are doing? It's one of those silly things that require constant reminders. Because guess what? It's too damn easy to get comfortable and complacent and maintain your status quo.

When you stop trying, you lose your edge. When

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Elusive Contemporary Spirituality connection essentialism growth spirituality Jun 16, 2021
Western societies are suffering from a troika of malevolent dynamics. At once, we are more disconnected, suffering from the long-term effects of a global pandemic, and without the broad spiritual safety net relied on during prior travails. 
 
Our disconnectedness comes at the hand of being digital...
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Control Brings You Freedom But… Freedom is fleeting without Control control freedom personal growth Jun 08, 2021
Studying history was never my strong suit. Now, it seems, I can’t get enough of it. Edith Hamilton, the celebrated scholar of ancient Greece, once said. “Fundamental to everything the ancient Greeks achieved was their conviction that good for humanity was possible only if men were free - body, mind,...
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Persistence is Everything mindset motivation personal growth positive mindset positive psychology Jun 02, 2021
When I was in my senior year in high school, it was to be glorious. We were poised to be a basketball powerhouse, and I was tapped to be a co-captain. In a spurious episode of fate, I suffered a tear of my right knee cartilage while playing sandlot football. My coach publicly excoriated me on a loca...
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What is your "Idiosynchronicity?" habit formation mindset positive mindset positive psychology May 25, 2021

"Eureka," I exclaimed as I typed the above title. We all hope one day to make up a word that will become part of the standard lexicon. In fact, we might even be a "hope-temist!" Aha, there is another word I made up. Not to be confused with a Hoptemist, which is an obscenely overpriced Scandinavian-d...

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