Category: attitude
Don’t let up until you win
August 2, 2006 | 5 comments
I’ve learned a lot about not letting up your effort until you win from playing tennis. Last winter, in a local tennis tournament, I was ahead 5-1. One more game and I’d be the winner. Suddenly, my game fell apart.
The Fisherman and the Industrialist
June 16, 2006 | 1 comment
A rich industrialist was horrified to find a fisherman lying comfortably beside his boat soaking in the warm afternoon sun. “Why aren’t you out fishing?” asked the industrialist. “I’ve caught enough fish for the day,” said the fisherman. ”Why don’t
Self-justification
June 13, 2006 | 2 comments
Self-justification is one of those qualities we often ignore and overlook because we hear it done so frequently. But honestly, it’s not a good quality. It’s a shortcoming of the trumped up human ego that seeks to hide its errors
Medicalizing human behavior
June 9, 2006 | No comments yet
Claude Lewis got it right in a column he wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He began, “It may be hard to recall, but once there was a time when people took responsibility for their behavior, without recourse to the psychiatric