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Humility Tears Down the Fortress of Pride
Ego builds a cardboard fortress that humility must, every day, tear down.
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Business Expert Sees Growing "Comparison Obsession"
Thomas J. DeLong, a professor at Harvard Business School, has noted a disturbing trend among his students and colleagues—a "comparison obsession." ...
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Columnist David Brooks Reflects on Overconfidence
"We're an overconfident species," contends New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks calls it a "magnification of the self," ...
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Sir Edmund Hilary Demonstrates Humility
In his book Humilitas, pastor John Dickson illustrates the beauty of humility in the life of Sir Edmund Hillary. In 1953 Hillary conquered Mount Everest ...
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Navy SEALs Succeed by Focusing on Others
The elite team of Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, is still largely shrouded in mystery. But in a recent article in The Wall Street ...
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Online Confessions Reveal Struggles with Body Image
Author Diana Spechler launched a website that gives people the chance to anonymously confess their true feelings about their bodies. So far, thousands ...
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Overconfident Naval Officer Loses His Way in the Fog
During a 1923 training exercise, a naval destroyer called the USS Delphy led a flotilla of seven vessels down the California coast. The USS Delphy was ...
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John Perkins Reflects on the Uselessness of Fame
According to author and theologian Paul Metzger, one of his greatest living heroes is John Perkins, an African American Christian leader from Mississippi ...
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How Aging Became a "Disease"—and a Huge Business
Trying to look younger and prevent aging has become an $511 billion a year business [as of 2022]. According to a book by Arlene Weintraub titled Selling ...
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President Bush Forgives a Staffer Caught in Plagiarism
In 2001 Tim Goeglein started running the White House Office of Public Liaison, providing him almost daily access to then President George Bush. All of ...
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