Action in the Face of Fear
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” ~ Nelson Mandela Are you old enough to remember when your local news station touted its weather forecaster...
Twenty-Three Seconds
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”~ Søren Kierkegaard George Eastman had a vision that drove his invention of roll film and the camera to use it. Eastman wanted to reduce the cost and simplify the process of photography to the...
Don’t Just Do Something—Sit There!
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.” ~ Aristotle Scotland’s King Robert the Bruce had a problem. He had ascended the throne in 1306 to a fragmented kingdom. Many Scots did not recognize the...
Instant Gratification
“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” ~ Unknown A large part of becoming a top performer is understanding the human psyche in ourselves and in others. The more we can account for instincts that have been part of...
Planning for the Inevitable
“I spent thirty years getting ready for that decision that took thirty seconds.” ~General James “Chaos” Mattis Wisdom can be found in the most unlikely of places. In the Amazon original series, The Man in the High Castle, a Japanese trade minister mystically remarks,...
Pattern Recognition
““Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.”~ Ian Stewart Make better decisions. Seeing that on a to-do list will ruin anyone’s day. Every leader from Moses to Musk has wished they could better prognosticate an...
