Truth and love
"Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives…
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The revolving door
We lived in an apartment in Dallas. At first we were outgoing--trying to introduce ourselves to our neighbors, trying to remember their names, greeting with…
Mind the gap
A chasm is growing between The thoughtful and the reactive The tranquil and the volatile The profound and the superficial The quiet and the shouting.…
Try it again
I'm a huge fan of Indian food. It's a part of my heritage--my Dad's folks were missionaries in India. We grew up eating home-cooked rice…
Failure, the coach
High performers tend to hate failure. Some of them hate it so much, they will deliberately not engage if they feel there is a decent…
On friendship
C.S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia, and J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings were friends.…
Some reward
When I supervised surgical nursing staff, sometimes the highest performers noticed that their hard work and amazing attitudes were often rewarded with increasingly difficult assignments.…
Trajectories
"Averageness, with time and discipline, will give a person influence by age sixty. Straight A's and brains don't do it--usually those have to be gotten…