So much is made of winning in the world. We hear that winners go further, that winners outlast and outwork losers and that the world celebrates winners (and not losers). If you were to ask some of the biggest winners in the world, it is very likely that they have some huge failures and losses. The best winners do not […]
With the widespread use of the internet, many great advances have occurred particularly in the dispersal of knowledge. We have more information at our fingertips than ever. This has also created a situation where people are interacting with their devices more and with people less and this has worsened one particular behavior, the criticism and attacking of people online. Until […]
Communication is something we learn very early as children. Newborn infants are able to recognize the voice of their mother immediately on being born and react to it depending on what they want. Babies have different cries to distinguish whether they are hungry, tired or need to be changed. As we grow older, we learn to communicate not just with […]
It seems that the world is constantly fighting for our attention. It used to be the radio in the car and the television at home continually bombarding us with advertisements for everything and anything. Now that we live in a digital age, virtual ads are everywhere, whether they pop up on web pages, show up in our social media feeds […]
No matter how much we know, most of us feel that we are at best a source of general knowledge in either the field that we work in or in some other area that we are interested in. Occasionally, we might be considered an expert or leader in our field if we have extensive education and experience, but the average […]
Western society has been living through the longest uninterrupted time of peace seen in the last 1000 or more years. There have been some conflicts in the world since the Korean War which ended in 1953, including the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s, but overall, there has been relative peace in the world of late. There has certainly […]
When we think of deadly animals, two of the most notorious that come to mind are the bear and the shark. They are big, aggressive and seemingly unstoppable. If you are in the wilderness and encounter a large bear, particularly a mother bear with cubs, you have little hope of effectively defending yourself if you are attacked. The same could […]
As most of us go through life, we compare what we do with what other people do. It may be what they say they do, what they show they do on social media, or what they actually do. This can often lead to a dangerous practice where we begin to keep score. Keeping Score What does keeping score mean? It […]
Until recently, the standard protocol for the vast majority of injuries was to rest and immobilize the affected area. If you broke a bone, the doctor reset it and put it into a plaster cast until it healed, then you took off the cast, did some physiotherapy to gain back your strength and you were usually fine. If you strained […]
For the majority of the 20th and into the 21st century, young people have been told that the best way to acquire knowledge was to go to college or university and learn from their teachers. Having a degree was the best way to get a good job that you could build into a career. Unfortunately, the value of a university […]
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