I think the secret to capturing the attention of others and engaging them in personal interaction is to first be Interesting and then to be Interested. If you’re Interesting, you’ll get some attention. You can’t predict how long that attention will be (Andy Warhol predicted it would be 15 minutes), but you’ll get some sort […]
Everyone is pretty good at starting projects, but far fewer people are very good at finishing projects — and that’s a shame because the biggest and most important lessons come at the end of the project. You learn more things by finishing a project than you do by simply starting them. The Moral of the […]
Family is sacred, right? Would you allow another person to harm your mother or your sister? Would you let your father or your brother be killed in the street before your very eyes? Why does it seems so difficult for many people in the world to feel that sort of kinship for their fellow man? […]
The photo that accompanies this article is a football player diving in mid-air just before he crosses the goal line and gets the ball into the end zone for the winning touchdown… Or is it? The photo could just as easily be of a football player diving in mid-air just before he crashes to the […]
I can’t tell you the last time I heard someone speak (customer, co-worker, relative, or total stranger I overheard standing in the checkout line at the store) without wishing for something. Wishing they had more money Wishing they had a better job Wishing they had a fancier car Wishing they were famous Wishing they had […]
You’re really bad at practice. As a matter of fact, you pretty much suck at it — but you’re supposed to. Practice is your chance to try new things (and many times fail at them) so that when the time comes to do the real thing, you’ll be good (or at least better) at it. […]
When you buy a bookcase at someplace like Ikea and take it home to assemble, do you just rip into the box and start pulling out the pieces and parts and begin fastening them together based on how you think the finished piece should look — or do you search for the instructions first so […]