How to Fail

Pema Chodron writes in How to Fail, If you want to be a complete human being, if you want to be genuine and hold the fullness of life in your heart, then failure is an opportunity to get curious about what is going on and listen to the storylines. Don’t buy the one’s that blame […]

Approaching Others With Compassion

The Dalai Lama writes in The Art of Happiness, If you approach others with the thought of compassion, that will automatically reduce fear and allow openness with other people. It creates a positive, friendly atmosphere. With that attitude, you can approach a relationship in which you, yourself, initially create the possibility of receiving affection or […]

The Credo of John D. Rockefeller Jr.

John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Credo is displayed in bronze letters on the wall in the main lobby of the Rockefeller Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island. I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe that every right implies a […]

Can Economic Theory Explain Everything?

Economics has limited application because its explanatory model cannot account for all the social and behavioral idiosyncrasies of the community or the individual. From Richard Bookstaber’s The End of Theory: It is a deeply held conviction within economics that our world can be reduced to models that are founded on the solid ground of axioms, […]

Intuition Demands Nurturing

Writing about the outstanding brilliance and peculiarity of his subject, historian extraordinaire Walter Isaacson discusses intuition in his biography of Leonardo da Vinci, When Leonardo was painting The Last Supper, spectators would visit and sit quietly just so they could watch him work. The creation of art, like the discussion of science, had become at […]

Atheism is an Admission of the Obvious

Sam Harris writes in his bestselling Letter to a Christian Nation, Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply an admission of the obvious. In fact, ‘atheism’ is a term that should not even exist. No one needs to identify himself as a ‘non-astrologer’ or a […]

Jeff Bezos on “Multi-tasking Serially”

Research shows that what folks are really doing when they think they are multitasking is “serial tasking”—shifting gears between the tasks and losing some ground every time they shift. Here’s Jeff Bezos on phone addiction and multi-tasking: Mark says his brother Jeff is surprisingly present, and rarely distracted by his phone. Jeff explains that “When […]

One Last Chance to Reclaim a Valued Employee

Leigh Branham writes in The 7 Hidden Reasons Employees Leave, There are times during an exit interview when it may become obvious that an employee who has decided to leave is really heartbroken at the prospect of leaving, but feels there is no alternative. For example, an employee may love the job, the work environment, […]

Selfless Gratitude

Phillip Moffitt writes in his essay Selfless Gratitude, Gratitude is the sweetest of all the practices for daily life and the most easily cultivated, requiring the least sacrifice for what is gained in return. It is a very powerful form of mindfulness practice, particularly for those who have depressive or self-defeating feelings, and those with […]

Patience is a Virtue for Investors

From Apollo Asia Fund’s manager’s report for second quarter 2017: We are patient with companies which are having short-term difficulties—perhaps to a fault, but when managers respond to each setback with sensible steps, the results are usually good in the end, and we sometimes learn more about the business characteristics during such periods. When our […]