Photo Credit: MotivationalTwist.com “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me!” I don’t know of any little rhymes like this that perpetuate a bigger lie! I think some parent in the distant past must have taught their child to say this in reply to someone who had said something unkind. […]
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I Like to Watch…
I like to watch. It’s hard to say exactly why, but that’s the truth of it: I just like to watch her. And of all the different situations and scenarios in which I like to watch her, this, I’m quite sure, is my favorite. It’s 5:30 AM and most of the normal world is still […]
Ugly Beginnings
GIF source: Imgur via Reddit Look at the guy in this clip! I’m thinking he didn’t have anywhere near 10,000 hours of treadmill experience! (see my previous post on Outliers if you don’t get the reference). Ugly outcome. The sad thing is I’ve been this guy way too often in my life. So, while I […]
Couch Potato to Outlier: Practice is Key
Did your parents ever make you take piano or tuba lessons when you were a kid? I bet they did and I bet you hated doing it because you didn’t think you had much of a future as a professional tuba player or it just wasn’t your passion. There were, probably, things that you were […]
Fear and Inertia
“She started it!” “No, he started it!” “No, she started it!”… We’ve all heard this one before… Somebody did something that didn’t go quite the way it was supposed to and now nobody wants to take responsibility for it. That’s the problem and part of the fear that keeps us from starting something: “It might […]