We often hear the phrase “tone deaf” in political circles. By that, people mean someone is oblivious to what others are feeling, thinking, and...
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My most valuable learning experience in graduate school also happened to be my most humiliating. Having read the first hundred pages of my master’s...
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Whether you’re talking football, engineering, or acting, you’ve seen the best and brightest make mistakes. Fumbles, crashes, bloopers—the...
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(Forbes first published my article here.) A few weeks ago, I received an email from one of my book publishers asking me to sign an amendment to a...
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Conventional wisdom says you can’t get a loan until you can prove you don’t need one. The corollary in the publishing world is that you can’t...
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(Forbes first published my article here.) Oddly enough in our small rural school, we had three of us in the seventh grade class with virtually the...
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