In the classic golf comedy movie “Caddyshack,” Bill Murray plays Carl Spackler, the greens-keeper for the Bushwood Country Club.  Carl talks to himself a lot as he tries to rid the club of an elusive gopher who is tearing up…

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…

Late one night a young grocery store clerk locked the front door and began to clean up.  Suddenly there was a knock on the door.  An elderly woman was standing outside tapping on the window. The clerk shouted, “We’re closed!”…

Because of a big project deadline, the employees had been asked to work double shifts for the next few days. “That’s it, I’m going home,” one employee said to his colleague. “But there are three more hours left in our…

Years ago a John Hopkin’s professor gave a group of graduate students this assignment:  Go to the poorest sections of the city.  Take 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and investigate their background and environment.  Then predict…

One day the employees of a very unusual company arrived at their office and saw a big sign on the main door which said: “Yesterday, the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away.  We invite…