While driving to an appointment yesterday, I caught the tail end of a fiery Scottie Pippen interview on sports radio where he called his former coach Phil Jackson racist and called his former teammate and arguably the best greatest basketball player, Michael Jordan, selfish. For those that might not know, Scottie Pippen played alongside Michael …
Named after the Roman dictator Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, a Fabian strategy is a military tactic used where “frontal assaults are avoided in wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection.” In one of my favorite movies, Amazing Grace¸ which follows William Wilberforce and the fight to end the slave trade in …
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Sometimes the best way to learn about something is to see what it’s not. I experienced this last night in the form of an Arby’s sandwich. A week ago, I went to Arby’s for the second time since I was a little boy. I was driving back to work from an appointment and needed to …
In 1972, Stanford did a study on delayed gratification in what is known as the Stanford marshmallow experiment. Kids were asked to sit in front of a marshmallow while the researcher left the room. Before the researcher left, the kids were told they could eat the marshmallow now, or if they waited until the researcher …
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