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You're Morally Obligated to Do Remarkable Things - Dr Jordan B Peterson | Facebook

You're Morally Obligated to Do Remarkable Things - Dr Jordan B Peterson | Facebook "You're Morally Obligated to Do Remarkable Things. Why? "Well, partly because life is so difficult and challenging that unless you give it everything you have, the...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 1, 2024 9:47 AM

There Is No Indispensable Man | The Art of Manliness

There Is No Indispensable Man | The Art of Manliness "...when Ike returned to Normandy for the 20th anniversary of D-Day and was asked to give a speech at a dinner commemorating the invasion, rather than use the occasion to...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 2, 2023 1:09 PM

Sam Kinison: The Last Sermon

Sam Kinison: The Last Sermon An audio recording of the last sermon Sam Kinison preached, at Community Assembly Church, 1404 N. Utica Ave., Tulsa, Oklahoma, on November 24, 1982. Kinison had been an evangelist before becoming a stand-up comedian. The...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 12, 2021 11:20 PM

BillHendricks.net: Is It a Calling Or a Whim?

BillHendricks.net: Is It a Calling Or a Whim? Bill Hendricks of the Giftedness Center in Dallas lists and elaborates on five signs a path you're considering may be your calling: "It fits your giftedness. ... You feel drawn to it...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 29, 2020 4:00 PM

Why We Talk Past Each Other at Work: The 7 Decision Languages - The Manasclerk Company

Why We Talk Past Each Other at Work: The 7 Decision Languages - The Manasclerk Company E. Forrest Christian writes: "I recently sat through a meeting where the discussants, all intelligent people who care deeply about the work under discussion,...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 16, 2019 3:22 PM

The Most Subtle Form of Pride | Desiring God

The Most Subtle Form of Pride | Desiring God Greg Morse writes: "Smallness in our own eyes is a virus mimicking humility that tempts some of us to do the same as Saul. He knew the command, saw the sheep...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 17, 2017 7:31 PM

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com The harsh truths are delivered with foul language, but that just might be what it takes to reach its intended audience. Some expurgated highlights: "Either you will go...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 28, 2015 12:30 PM

A Treatise of Vocations by William Perkins | Monergism

A Treatise of Vocations by William Perkins | Monergism A book by the late-16th-century English preacher, author, and Cambridge fellow on the Bible's teaching about work and calling: "Now, in every calling we must consider two causes. First, the efficient...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 3, 2015 10:46 PM

How To Get Things Done | Challies Dot Com

How To Get Things Done | Challies Dot Com First in a series on personal productivity from a Christian perspective, featuring a short catechism on productivity....

Posted by Michael Bates on September 30, 2014 8:45 PM

Man Terrified To Realize He Could Easily Go On Like This | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Man Terrified To Realize He Could Easily Go On Like This | The Onion - America's Finest News Source Another in a series of painfully insightful Onion stories. Is one writer responsible? "Gallardo told reporters that as long as he...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 30, 2014 12:17 PM

I Was Placed On This Earth To Put Off Doing Something Extraordinary | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

I Was Placed On This Earth To Put Off Doing Something Extraordinary | The Onion - America's Finest News Source Ouch. "Unlike other people, I know that when I surf the Internet for hours and hours, rather than simply killing...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 28, 2014 7:16 PM

When The HR Guy Tells You You're Confusing -- This Happened to Me -- Medium

When The HR Guy Tells You You're Confusing -- This Happened to Me -- Medium "I need to apply for a job where they aren't actually looking for anyone, I think. I need to tell someone they need me but...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 18, 2013 1:16 PM

The Juilliard Effect - Ten Years Later - NYTimes.com

The Juilliard Effect - Ten Years Later - NYTimes.com In 2004, the New York Times hunted for the 44 instrumentalists who graduated with the Juilliard Class of 1994. After 10 years, fewer than half of these gifted musicians were making...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 12, 2013 4:22 PM

How to be gritty: what children don't know can hurt them | Audacious Ideas

How to be gritty: what children don't know can hurt them | Audacious Ideas "Regardless of whether students are rich or poor, she said, the two habits that most accurately predict achievement are their self-control and their grit: the ability...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 14, 2013 6:05 PM

There's More to Life Than Being Happy - Emily Esfahani Smith - The Atlantic

There's More to Life Than Being Happy - Emily Esfahani Smith - The Atlantic Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor, wrote in Man's Search for Meaning of two of his fellow inmates in the concentration camp, both of them despondent and...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 16, 2013 6:05 PM

Free vs Freely Distributed « blog maverick

Free vs Freely Distributed « blog maverick Interesting piece by Mark Cuban. The gist of it is that you can make money with free content as long as you can control how people get it. Another well written piece of...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 6, 2009 12:06 AM

FORA.tv - MythBuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures

FORA.tv - MythBuster Adam Savage's Colossal Failures An hour-long program (speech plus Q&A) at Maker Faire: Adam Savage from MythBusters explains what he learned from a couple of disastrous projects early in his career. Great viewing for the gifted kid...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 9, 2009 8:07 PM

Transcript of the Magliozzis' commencement address - MIT News Office

Transcript of the Magliozzis' commencement address - MIT News Office In their 1999 commencement address, alumni Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers, teach MIT graduates the mantra that leads to happiness: "Unencumbered by the thought...

Posted by Michael Bates on June 1, 2009 10:26 PM