"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish." - Jean de la Fontaine Most of the limitations you face can be pushed back or overcome. Very few are intrinsic or permanent. Certain of them can be overcome with might and main but the most daunting of them are better conquered by …
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The Perils of Clean Living
If you've met my mother you might have heard her recommend that children get outside and get in the dirt to build their immunity. Many scientists share her opinion and in medicine, the "Hygiene Hypothesis" and the "Old Friends Hypothesis" explain exactly why this might be true. Science, like other areas of human intellectual development, …
Antifragility
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a derivatives trader turned distinguished professor of risk engineering at New York University's Polytechnic Institute, wrote an excellent article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal entitled "Learning to Love Volatility." Taleb argues that our modern obsession with comfort and cosmetic stability propagates people, things and thoughts that are fragile and therefore vulnerable to …
Getting Back to Why
I shared a fabulous TED talk given by Simon Sinek in one of my meetings earlier this week and I wanted to make sure that you had a chance to hear it too. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeAkYuMDVGY Purpose is inextricably linked to fulfillment. Lose sight of the first and you'll lose out on the second. "Make your work …
You are a marvel
“Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that will never be again. And what do we teach our children? We teach them that two and two make four, and that Paris is the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should …
Courage of the Quest
Life by Henry van Dyke Let me but live my life from year to year, With forward face and unreluctant soul; Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal; Not mourning for the things that disappear In the dim past, nor holding back in fear From what the future veils; but with a whole And …
Converging to Center
Each Life Converges to Some Centre by Emily Dickinson Each Life Converges to some Centre -- Expressed -- or still -- Exists in every Human Nature A Goal -- Embodied scarcely to itself -- it may be -- Too fair For Credibility's presumption To mar -- Adored with caution -- as a Brittle Heaven -- …
Restoring to Grace
"All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride." - Sophocles The intrigue and drama surrounding the resignation of General Petraeus from his post as Director of the CIA following the apparently accidental discovery of his extramarital affair by …
A Song of Life
If nothing else, your life should be an inspiration to others less fortunate than you. I do not imagine that the man, woman or child who, squatting beneath the crush of humanity, gasping for fresh air, scratching for his or her next morsel is fortunate enough to read, let alone read this post online. Given …
Weekly Photo Challenge: Big
Today's weekly WordPress weekly photo challenge is themed: Big. Here are a few of the bigger things I found in my iPhoto on the topic (I couldn't resist the last one...he was big in his own mind):
Gregory Hake 