“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.” - Anaïs Nin If self-consciousness distorts the perception of reality, then unselfconsciousness removes the lenses which color perception. The moment you step into a situation with a concern for self, an interest in personal gain, you lose touch with reality and begin seeing …
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Defining the Goal
The first step in solving any problem is to define a proper goal. This is as true in training horses as it is in delivering health care. In the case of training horses, the rider has the opportunity - each and every time he works with the horse - to prolong the horse's soundness, improve …
Guiding Principle
In every industry there is a guiding principle. Properly heeded, this principle informs and guides its participants from glory unto glory. When ignored or overshadowed by other lesser principles, the industry can only hope for limited success, if any at all. The guiding principle is not the same in every industry, but it does and …
Art and Science
Art and Science, a poem by Gregg Hake Art and science when aligned give form to hidden truth, But once divorced or set at odds they lose the bloom of youth. So why do men insist upon a fight to prove their worth, For when allied they do much more than create hell on earth.
A Matter of Time
My eldest son asked an interesting question while we were driving home from my boys' horse riding lesson yesterday evening. Out of the blue he asked, "Daddy, why when you see things in slow motion do you want to stop the bad things from happening even more?" Not quite sure what he meant, I asked …
Just Deserts
As I mentioned yesterday, George Washington wrote out a copy of “Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation“, a collection of maxims written in the late sixteenth century in France, when he was about sixteen years old. I've been reading through them and found another that you might enjoy today: 65th Speak …
Rules of Civility
George Washington wrote out a copy of "Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation", a collection of maxims written in the late sixteenth century in France, when he was about sixteen years old. They're all quite interesting and useful, but one in particular stood out to me today: 89th Speak not Evil …
Newness
What thwarts the experience of newness, of the constant renewal intrinsic to life? In the natural world, all things are being made new constantly, but human begins, who are according to some the ultimate product of natural selection and are to others the stewards of a benevolent God's creation, seem to have a hard time …
Individualized Medicine
It wasn't too long ago that clothing and shoes were made by tailors and cobblers who were skilled in customizing their products for the customers they served. The industrial revolution almost put an end to that approach, as products made by machines caught the eye and pocketbooks of consumers everywhere and tailors and cobblers all …
The Vicissitudes of Nations
And as the vicissitudes of Nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious, and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any times exists, as fast as shall be practicable consistently with integrity and good faith. - Alexander Hamilton If there is anything …
Gregory Hake 