Category Archives: Personal Development
They love their own libraries, read philosophy, history and fiction and when they need a great manager, the call goes out, “Get me poets”. CEO Libraries Reveal Keys to Success If there is a C.E.O. canon, its rule is this: “Don’t follow your mentors, follow your mentors’ mentors,” suggests David Leach, chief executive of the [...]
Last week I wrote Life Imitates Art, this week there is a much finer piece in The Boston Globe about the situation facing Sandra Day O’Connor called A love supreme finds space in dementia. So this, in the end, is what love is. Former Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O’Connor’s husband, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, [...]
“So I just ran over it with my wheelchair until she apologized” I am quite impressed with Disaboom which I happened upon yesterday, a site that delivers on the promise of the Internet. For anyone who is living with a disability, this is the place to find others like you, to learn from their experiences [...]
Ronni Bennett over at Time Goes By has posted a two-part interview with Dr. William Thomas, a young geriatrician and author of What are Old People For? “What Are Old People For?: How Elders Will Save the World” (William H. Thomas) Here is one excerpt. We human beings live a long time after our reproductive [...]
David Warren quit school at 16 and hit the road. In retrospect, it was the best personal decision I ever made, and I recommend it wholeheartedly to the young of today; at least, to those whose minds are not already imprisoned. Get out of that education “system” while you still can, and before it has [...]
Only 5% of high school seniors sleep 8 hours a night. Half of adolescents get less than seven. Snooze or Lose Overstimulated, overscheduled kids are getting at least an hour’s less sleep than they need, a deficiency that, new research reveals, has the power to set their cognitive abilities back years. – Using newly developed [...]
How to describe “life stages” today has been on my mind as I am – I hope to God – finally finishing my book, so I am quite intrigued by David Broooks’ column on The Odyssey Years There used to be four common life phases: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Now, there are at [...]
The maxim “Bad money drives out good money”, otherwise known as Gresham’s Law, stands for the concept that when spending money, if both good money (higher in silver or gold content) and bad money (lesser in intrinsic value) are exchanged at the same price people will hand over the ‘bad’ coins rather than the ‘good’ [...]
Via Instapundit comes the list of 25 Skills Every Man Should Know. 1. Patch a radiator hose 2. Protect your computer 3. Rescue a boater who as capsized 4. Frame a wall 5. Retouch digital photos 6. Back up a trailer 7. Build a campfire 8. Fix a dead outlet 9. Navigate with a map [...]
Tony Snow found unexpected blessings in cancer. Those who have been stricken enjoy the special privilege of being able to fight with their might, main, and faith to live—fully, richly, exuberantly—no matter how their days may be numbered — The mere thought of death somehow makes every blessing vivid, every happiness more luminous and intense.
