Andrew Matthews tells this touching and inspiring story: On a bicycle ride around the world, my friend Aden stopped awhile in a West African village to help build a bakery. Aden said: It took us several months to build the bakery. We made the bricks from crushed anthills. Every day…
Is is good to be cynical? See that puzzled look on that face? That’s exactly how I feel about this question The word has two meanings: cynical: adj: disapproving1. believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere.2. describes a tendency to use someone’s feelings or emotions…
Daniel Goleman in his groundbreaking book, Emotional Intelligence, tells a story of his friend, Terry Dobson, who in the 1950s was one of the first Americans to study the martial art aikido in Japan. One afternoon he was riding home on a suburban Tokyo train when a huge, bellicose, and very…