How Would You Assess Your Ability To Use Hindsight In Favorable And Useful Ways?

The benefits of hindsight have generally to do with learning from mistakes and the purported ability to develop complete understanding (as in 20-20 hindsight) of the past. What happens if we’re wearing less than perfect “lenses” as we review the past? I’ve known many people who carry what I call a “cup of worry” that […]

What Do You Have To Learn From How You Handle Wake-Up Calls?

Wake-up calls, of course, occur not just for individuals, but for every kind of human organization: families, teams, companies, institutions, governments – even countries and perhaps for the entire human population. A wake-up call is a warning that something more dire could happen – like hearing your tires hit the raised bumps on the freeway […]

Reading Historical Fiction And History For Pleasure

For those readers expanding beyond reading novels, biographies and historical fiction are hits among our readers. It’s useful to read outside the genre that you normally read so that you can broaden your experience. Hearty thanks to the readers who wrote in!!! Here are some of their replies to questions about biographies and historical fiction: […]

Starting Over From Things Beyond Our Control

In law, events beyond our control are called “acts of God” or “force majeure.” Working with our topic of starting over, we considered the topic generally . . . then how we can start over ourselves . . . and how we can allow others to start over. So, today: what about those pesky circumstances […]