Being an expert at something really pays off. Just how good are top performers compared to everybody else? Research shows in high complexity jobs like professional and sales roles, the top 10% produce 80% more than average and 700% more than the bottom 10%. But as I’m sure you’re aware, becoming the best ain’t easy.…
Intro: The ability to think critically is a divine gift, a tremendous responsibility, and a moral/ethical imperative. In our day, such thinking has been displaced by hyper-emotionalism on the one hand and new-agey ‘mindfulness-at-the-expense-of-in-depth-reasoning’ on the other. We absolutely need to think deeply, soberly, and rationally, if we want to have any sense of credibility.…
Most anyone can be made to look foolish: By restating their position(s) in an incorrect, out of context, or otherwise misleading manner and then proceeding to knock-down such straw-men; or by… Interrupting them before they have an opportunity to finish their thought/sentence/argument, and then proceeding to refute that incomplete statement as if it represented the…
“When you’re a child ‘why’ is a question regularly, from the most obvious of questions to the more complicated. It’s a part of growing up and, although somewhat frustrating when asked regularly, it’s what children do. There is a fascination with life, a pure curiosity about all the things as adults, we take for granted…”…
Spiritual Wrestlings 