Wow. It’s hard to believe. But it’s true. Many people today – of all ages – base their degree of self-esteem on how many likes they receive on social media. I know people who become depressed if they don’t receive a text within an hour. So many of us don’t speak to each other anymore. A […]
In a month from now I will turn 60 years old – an age I once considered “really old”. One of the strangest things about getting older is the realization that other people you once thought of as much more advanced than you – are, in fact, only a few years older. I was shocked […]
Lately, I have been thinking a lot about time – how quickly it disappears, and how much I sometimes want it to just stop. Each day, for weeks, I woke up, knowing that my own inability to focus and tendency to just mindlessly surf the web, combined with inevitable interruptions from other people, would result […]
They spoke to me every day – from the time I woke up to the time I fell asleep. My inner demons. Always there to remind me of my unworthiness, my mistakes, my incompetence – the hopelessness of it all. Their voices grew louder the day I was fired from my job as a newspaper […]
He lost the Civil War but is respected to this day, could control his emotions like nobody else, and kept a pet chicken for companionship. Robert Edward Lee, the commander of the Confederate army in the U.S. Civil War is said to have never fired a single shot, but was responsible for the deaths of […]
At age 9, he was kicked in the head by a horse. He once almost drowned. He suffered from malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitoes that has the power to kill. He disliked his first name, preferring that people refer to him by his last name. A store he owned with a partner went under, […]
He considered himself to be insane, saying he had “long intervals of horrible sanity,” skipped a meeting with the President of the United States because he was drunk, and died under mysterious circumstances. Famous writer Edgar Allan Poe left a legacy of wild, creative thinking. This bizarre, troubled genius of history can teach us today […]
You might be looking at society and shaking your head. You see people everywhere rushing around, seemingly in a race to nowhere. And you may conclude that society is out of control. Yet – amazingly – those who rush around, speed on the highways, talk fast and check their smartphone every 30 seconds – feel […]
He refused to have a phone in his office calling it a “distraction”, spent most nights reading the Encyclopedia Britannica, and almost worked himself to death. Alexander Graham Bell, credited with inventing the telephone, followed his curiosity to discover his purpose. For millions suffering from a lack of direction, Bell’s life is a blueprint for […]
I have a good friend who has been unemployed for 2 years. He’s smart and can be very charming, when he wants to be. His expectations have always been high, so he has said no to a few opportunities which he felt were beneath him. Recently – he was in a perpetual state of despair, […]
Cory Galbraith 