Effort is described scientifically as force applied against inertia. This is the daily challenge for many of us to muster up the energy and determination to pull it together, roll out of bed and join the human RACE another day…
Information is knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance like news; and knowledge gained through study, communication, research, instruction is factual data…
Cycles of Change is a method of voluntary change that we seek for ourselves. It begins with Uninformed Optimism which I personally imbibed during the late 1960’s and the ‘Flower Power’ movement…
The Nike of Samothrace, also known as the “Winged Victory”, represents the Greek goddess of victory. She is descending from the sky to alight on the prow of a warship. Her clothing, which appears to be whipped by the wind and clings to her body, creates an impression of movement…
I jumped on the peace train in 1969 during the Vietnam War and have never given up the dream. Unfortunately, the Industrial Revolution introduced mustard gas in the First World War and from then on has gotten increasingly sinister…
Proactive: serving to prepare for, intervene in, or control an expected occurrence or situation, especially a negative or challenging one; anticipatory. For most of us who are not controllers of significance, how can we be proactive?
Fallibilism is the view that we as human beings can never be in the position of acquiring ultimate truth, there is always a chance for discovering that we were in error. Walter Kaufman proposed having strong beliefs, held loosely…
To judge or appraise by comparison with something or someone else. Protagoras, in the Platonic dialogs, puts forth that “man (you) are the measure of all things.”
There’s a notion that in classical times everyone is basically on the same page, orderly, and in times of what Jacques Barzun calls ‘Decadence’, there is no common thread among people, more chaotic.
Repetitions, what primarily athletes refer to as repeating an action to perfect it. This is particularly a concern magnified by William James that there is practically nothing more important than developing good habits.