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The Importance of Words
Before you speak, let your words Pass through three gates. At the first gate, ask yourself, ‘Is it true?’ At the second ask, ‘Is it necessary?’ At the third gate ask ‘Is it kind?’ -Sufi saying As human beings, we are all a work in progress. What would happen if a...
What We Can Learn From Chickens
William Muir of Purdue University has studied the behavior of chickens. He was interested in productivity. It is easy to measure in chickens because you just count the eggs. He wanted to know what could make his chickens more productive, so he devised an...
Contract Theory and Family Law
Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel prize in economics last week for their research on contract theory. In the late 1970's, Holmstrom showed how the optimal contract carefully weighs risks against incentives. In the 1980's, Hart contributed to a branch of...
What Women Really Want
Meditation teacher Jack Kornfield tells a story to point out the importance of respect and dignity.1 As a part of the Arthurian legend, a knight of King Arthur's round table, Sir Gawain, found himself in a forest, lost. In the moonlight he came to a clearing. In the...
THE INTERNMENT OF GEORGE TAKEI
In 1965, actor George Takei was cast in the role of Lt. Sulu in the Star Trek television series. He has been associated with this role ever since. In addition to his acting career, he is known as a proponent of LGBT rights and is active in state and local politics....
A Thesis of Luck
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold a photo sharing app, Instagram, to Facebook two years after its founding for one billion dollars. It is clear that luck had something to do with it. The need for an app that allowed users to enhance their photos with filters...
Stay Centered
Cliff Young was the unexpected winner of the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultra Marathon in 1983. The run took him five days, fifteen hours and four minutes--almost two days faster than the previous record. At the time Cliff was a sixty-one year old potato farmer...
Managing Expectations
An aspect of my role as an attorney representing persons in the process of divorce is to manage their expectations. This is not always a simple task. Life is a journey. In one’s youth, it is many times a journey of light. That is, one experiences the positive...
A Diagnosis and a Cure
Mother Teresa of Calcutta made this observation: "In developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness today than that one. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst, the most...