Parents want the best for us. They give us advice hoping we won’t make the same mistakes they did. My dad once told me, ‘Never look down on people because they are uneducated. They can teach you things you cannot find in textbooks.’ He was trying to tell me that there is something to learn something from everyone […]

People want to get ahead in their lives, to become more influential and powerful. Even if they don’t say so, it is part of human nature to want to have control over yourself and other people. This control is not necessarily negative. In fact, it can be very positive. Imagine a child in a home of […]

Not all arguments are worth winning. Winning an argument with a friend, for instance, may mean losing that friend. To lose a friend over an argument isn’t wise. We try to avoid it. Even when our friends are wrong, we keep quiet. To win an argument and lose a friend is a victory we try to avoid. History […]

The hare was fast, but ended up last. The tortoise was slow, but was the most victorious of all. You know this story. That inevitable race between the lighting fast hare and the inch by inch moving tortoise. Starting off strong, the hare later makes a fatal mistake that will make him lose the race: he […]