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Story: Excellence Sometimes Requires Mediocrity. 27 Aug 2013 | 04:42 pm
This week’s video story: Sometimes excellence requires mediocrity. You can read about this incident, when Nixon repeated a remark that Eisenhower had made to him, “A true executive can sign a poor...
Do You Love Being Back in Your Routine? I Do. 26 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
I was out of town on vacation last week, but today I’m back in the usual swing (mostly) of my routine. And I love it. I’ve noticed that some people really enjoying being away from their usual routin...
Happiness Is…Taking a Vacation. 18 Aug 2013 | 04:17 pm
Farewell for a week–I’m off on a family vacation. It’s time for an “island of leisure,” as William Edward Hartpole Lecky put it: “Pleasure is a jewel which will only retain its luster when it is in a ...
How One Quick Click Could Inspire You to Change Your Life. 17 Aug 2013 | 06:10 pm
I recently ran across a reference to the internet site DeathClock.com. I clicked over to it, and entered a few simple facts about myself—birthday, gender, temperament, BMI, smoker/non-smoker—and the ...
Secret of Adulthood: Soap and Water Removes Most Stains. 16 Aug 2013 | 05:52 pm
Further Secrets of Adulthood: I’m embarrassed to say how long it took me to realize this–almost as long as it took for me to realize the similar Secret of Adulthood, that over-the-counter medicati...
Do You Still Consider September to be the Beginning of the New Year? 15 Aug 2013 | 03:49 am
Even though I haven’t been in school for a long time, for me, September marks the beginning of a new year. Orange is the new black, breakfast is the new lunch, Monday is the new Thursday, pork is th...
Story: I Love This Example of Thinking About Luck. 13 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
This week’s video story: I love this example of superstitious thinking. You can read about the disputed versions of this study on Wikiquote. As I said, I’m not vouching for the accuracy of this p...
More Questions for the Upholders, Questioners, Rebels, and Obligers Out There. 12 Aug 2013 | 05:01 pm
More questions about the Four Rubin Tendencies. I’m still obsessed with the four categories I’ve developed–which, for lack of a better name, I’m currently calling the Four Rubin Tendencies. Or maybe ...
“Our Virtues Are Expressions of Our Choice, or at Any Rate Imply Choice.” 10 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
“When we are angry or frightened it is not by our choice; but our virtues are expressions of our choice, or at any rate imply choice.” — Aristotle, The Nichomachean Ethics
Mindy Kaling’s Rules For Writing in a “Voice Checklist.” 7 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
Every Wednesday is Tip Day or List Day or Quiz Day. This Wednesday: Mindy Kaling’s Rules for Writing. I’m a huge fan of Mindy Kaling. She is one of the geniuses behind one of my very favorite TV sho...
