I went to lunch with a friend who is a divorce attorney here in Oklahoma City. In the middle of lunch his wife called to blame him for leaving the pool gate open. He calmly apologized to her and promised to not do it again. He hung up and said to me, “I’m a 1000% …
“The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines from one city to another, almost as fast as birds can fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour.” People mocked the great Oliver Evans when he uttered those words. He was right, the steam engine changed the course of human history. …
Would you rather be a king 500 years ago or a middle class person today? Your answer is revelatory on how you view human satisfaction. If you think satisfaction is an objective condition you might prefer being a middle class person with an iphone, abundant food, water and modern medicine. If on the other hand …
When I was in my 20s I worked for one of the best marketing minds at Accenture. He introduced me to scotch and to the idea that we don’t buy things or experience for the product itself but to change our current status quo. All of consumption is a promise. A promise that buying a product …
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Empathy is not uniquely human, there is evidence of empathy in other mammals – Dogs and Dolphins coming to the rescue of each other, and humans. Researchers say humans developed empathy for evolutionary reasons, without empathy we would never make it alive as babies. Our ability to connect without words with one another and come …
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom” I have been reading essays of the often misunderstood German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and the quote above stopped me in my tracks. I don’t need to explain his point on pain, as humans we know it too well – we feel pain when …
When I wake up every morning, I get a lot of stimuli that remind me how needed and important I am. We all wake up like we are the center of the Universe – a Universe of our own imagination. The fact is I am one of several billions, and over the course of history …