In a famous circus act a juggler starts one plate spinning on a stick, which he then puts the stick on a slot on a table, starts another plate spinning on another stick, and then he gets a third one…

An anthropologist proposed a game to some children in Africa.  He placed a basket of fruit near a tree and told them that whoever got to the tree first could have all the fruit. When he gave the signal to…

A butcher, who had a particularly good day, proudly flipped his last chicken on a scale and weighed it for a customer. “Almost 6 pounds,” he said. “That’s a little too small,” the woman said.  “Don’t you have anything larger?”…

I stumbled across a quote recently by psychologist Angela Duckworth that really caught my eye.  She said “Enthusiasm is common.  Endurance is rare.” I’ve written a number of columns about the importance of enthusiasm, and I don’t believe it is…

“I am seldom considered, though I do more to influence everything about you than virtually any one thing in your life.  I often control the time you get up in the morning, the time you go to sleep, what you…