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Until it was first achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister it was commonly believed that the human body was simply incapable of running a mile in less than four minutes.  Since then though, the feat has since been accomplished by many male athletes, and it has now become a standard of all professional distance runners [...]

I read an blog post this week, by Penelope Trunk, that has got me thinking.  The post, Being an expert takes time, not talent, sites a Harvard Business Review article from 2007 which takes-on our commonly-held ideas and explains how expertise is often not what we think it is.
“…there is no correlation between IQ and [...]

The book of Nehemiah may be my favorite in the Old Testament; it tells such a great story.  I was reading though the book again last week and was struck again by how Nehemiah was just minding his own business and enjoying a life of comfort until some news from a far-off place completely disrupted [...]

Are you a whiner or a designer?
There are no shortage of people to point-out the problems.  “This needs to change.  That’s broken.  Someone should do something” they say.
Where there seems to be a lack is in people who will not only see the problem but who, having seen the problem, will begin to take steps [...]

A couple weeks ago, I read a great post on the value of risk.
“To improve at anything, we must at some point push ourselves outside our comfort zone.”
It seems natural for us to go to great lengths to guard against risk.  We love to take precautions.  We love to work to lower the odds.
As we [...]