4 Ways To Push Through Adversity and Failure Without Ego
“The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown.” — Plutarch There is no way around it: We will experience difficulty. We will feel the touch of failure. As Benjamin
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The Dress-Suit Bribe
There’s a theme in the works of Upton Sinclair called the “dress-suit bribe” which he returns to over and over. It’s the the name of a play written by a character in Dragon’s Teeth, a throwaway line
12 Novels That Changed How I Think About The World
It was a long winding road trip this month, starting in Seattle and ending in Sacramento. In between, I did talks in Portland (visited Powells) and San Francisco (my parents came) and we covered a lot
Life as a Grand Strategy
I used to carry a lot of fear. What if I lose this? Or, ‘I have to monitor that in case something bad happens.’ Worse, I would be unsure of how to act in certain situations, whether to advance or
The Imaginary Audience
The psychologist David Elkind published an interesting study in the mid 1970’s. Adolescents, he found, believe in an “imaginary audience.” Consider a 13 year old so embarrassed that they miss a week