To reflect is to look at life in a mirror - to look at life again in another way.S Most of us have been upset by something since we last took time to refresh ourselves. By reflecting on the things ... Read More about Reflecting – Contemplating
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Advocating – Championing
The task of pleading a case is not reserved for lawyers, who are not the only ones skilled in that art. Each of us is an attorney-in-fact: the parent advocating for a child, a student defending a ... Read More about Advocating – Championing
Using Scientific Methods
. . . . . . In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published De revolutionibus orbitum coelesticum (On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres), in which he argued that the Earth revolved around the Sun, not ... Read More about Using Scientific Methods
Being Informed and Socially Aware
Sound public involvement demands that we keep abreast of public affairs. Perversely and tragically, our mass media may have done more to impede this than to promote it. We have access to more ... Read More about Being Informed and Socially Aware
Intervening
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. [Martin Luther King, Jr., "A letter from ... Read More about Intervening
Transcending Kinship
Empathy is being at one with the emotions of others, including but not limited to their suffering. It is not pity or even sympathy; it is understanding and entering into, or recognizing and sharing, ... Read More about Transcending Kinship
Exercising Sound Judgment and Discretion
Sound judgment is an essential characteristic of wisdom. It is the ability to weigh, soundly, competing values, alternative courses of action and different ways of looking at things. A person of ... Read More about Exercising Sound Judgment and Discretion
Genius
A genius is someone whose intellectual accomplishments transcend all previous ones. The man of talent is like a marksman who hits a mark others cannot hit; the man of genius is like a marksman who ... Read More about Genius
Being Open-minded
When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir? [attributed to John Maynard Keynes] A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not ... Read More about Being Open-minded