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When I was building my organization, I had a lot of young people working for me who had tremendous potential but were
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In 350 B.C., in “On Rhetoric,” Aristotle described three categories of persuasion: ethos, pathos, and logos. Ethos, Greek for character, refers to
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I find that many people subscribe to some version of the “big secret” theory of life, also known by its variants the
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“When the Student is ready, the Teacher will appear” is a Buddhist proverb I’ve always liked. I would imagine a kindly old
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Life is wonderful but it also is rather finite (anybody find a way out of here alive, please let me know). I
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Micro Autobiography: The New Literary Craze. Can you sumarize your life in just SIX words? How about your future? Try it! I
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While we may have some idea of our goals in life, just what concrete steps need to be taken, how to navigate
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Consequences, standards, and deadlines can be incredibly powerfully motivators. I consider myself a motivated person, but sometimes I still need the motivational
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A group of blind men lived together in a remote village. One day an elephant came to town, and since this had
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From “The Set of the Sail” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox One ship sails East, And another West, By the self-same winds that
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Many people want to change, or say they do. Relatively few actually succeed. Why? Lots of reasons. Bookstores are full of tomes
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On November 12, 2001, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300-605R, crashed while departing JFK for the Dominican Republic. After takeoff, the