Month: December 2011

“What are you doing for lunch on Wednesday the 12th?”I received an envelope with this message printed near my name and address: “What are you doing for lunch on Wednesday the 12th?” Of course I opened the envelope. I knew I wouldn’t be in Houston on the 12th, but I was curious about what I […]

This Week’s Jump-Start Adaptability in Action In a way, human beings behave like bees. If you place several bees in an open-ended bottle and lay the bottle on its side with the base toward a light source, the bees will repeatedly fly to the bottle bottom toward the light. It never occurs to them to […]

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” — General George S. Patton

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”Robert HeinleinNovelistFrom Insight of the Day emails

Dumb … and a whole lot of empty space between the ears.Burglars have it all wrong. They break in a rich person’s house, ignore the books and training CDs in the library, and then steal the big screen television. How do the rich become rich? Not from watching television. They become rich from their libraries. […]