7 Ways to Create Mental Strength
Do you have the mental strength to quickly bounce back from personal failures and setbacks, or is dealing with the harsh realities of life something you’ve always struggled with? Can you pick yourself back up and adapt to circumstances, or do you find yourself completely overwhelmed by the curveballs life throws at you? Especially at […]
5 Signs You Are In a Toxic Relationship
American Historian Tara Westover said, “At some point, you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life.” It might sound harsh, but you do not have to hold onto a toxic relationship or friendship that you have outgrown. Humans are social by nature and we need friendship and support […]
The Bee and Turtle Effect Allowed Elon Musk to Pioneer Space
Elon Musk is such a unique and talented entrepreneur for countless reasons. But I think that one of his most striking qualities is that he has an acute sense of maximizing his day’s output while exercising tremendous patience toward his stunningly-high goals. That is a concept I refer to as the Bee and Turtle Effect. His disdain […]
WITHOUT NOTICING, HERE’S HOW THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC FORCED YOU TO IMPROVE YOUR CHARACTER
As we now surpass 100,000 deaths nationally due to the global pandemic and now witness civil unrest occurring not just in America but also around the world, it is definetly a time for self-reflection. Each of those countless victims was for someone their loved one, for others a friend, and for many of us, although we didn’t know them […]
THE WORLD IS FINALLY TAKING NOTICE OF BRAZIL’s HUMANITARIAN CRISIS. BUT IS IT TOO LATE?
Which would you rather? Go to work in a face-to-face setting with no physical protection against COVID-19 in an environment where it’s spreading like wildfire, or see your children go without food and experience a humanitarian crisis? If you thought the current situation in America was tough, that’s the dilemma those living Brazilian favelas face […]
THE GLOBAL DILEMMA OF FINDING THE RIGHT APPROACH TO EXITING LOCKDOWN
Countries all over the world have taken steps to “flatten the curve” of the coronavirus pandemic through restrictive lockdown measures over the last two months. At one point, those measures ensnared 3.9 billion citizens globally. With infection rates easing, attention has turned to address the question of how to restore life across over a hundred nations to […]
WHY DOES THE WORLD CRAVE IRON MAN BUT NEEDS CAPTAIN AMERICA?
“The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self,” Edward Bulwer-Lytton once said. This analogy holds even more truth in our present 2020 crisis than it did when he penned it 150 years ago. One of the reasons the Marvel movies have become so successful is they provide us with heroes whose ideals we can […]
The Covid-19 Pandemic Will Alter Career Lives But Not in the Alarming Ways Many Predict
Forbes recently published an article by senior contributor Jack Ryan in which he describes how the Covid-19 Pandemic will change career lives in alarming ways for the foreseeable future. In it, he uses a couple of thousand words of predictions explaining how the current pandemic will shape and change the lives of Americans post-Coronavirus. Although I respect […]
Why Millennials Stand the Best Chance to Overcome Their Second Once-in-a-Lifetime Crisis
I have read far too many articles like these in The Atlantic, Business Insider, and Fortune from Millennial authors asserting the fact that their peers don’t stand a chance as a result of the latest crisis impacting them. These authors are prematurely publishing articles writing off their own generation with reckless abandon. And, not only do they […]
50 Years Later: How the COVID-19 Crisis is the Reverse of the Apollo 13 Mission
When the two NASA astronauts, Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan, return to earth this week, it will mark 50 years since the very day the Apollo 13 mission, commanded by James Lovell, also landed back on earth. During Apollo 13 the Crisis Was In Space. […]