Failure Is Much More Common than Success

In his book, Break Open the Sky, Steven Bauman writes:

Despite our near-phobic fear of failure, the facts suggest that it's actually a common, almost ...

Paul McCartney Still Has Something to Prove

In an interview with Esquire Magazine, former Beatles star Paul McCartney, now aged 82 (his birthday is June 1942), was asked if he felt that he still ...

Pro Basketball's Greatest Failure

He's been called the biggest bust in the history of the NBA. Darko Milicic, a largely unknown player from Serbia, was chosen second in the 2003 NBA ...

Competitive Chickens Spend Time Fighting Not Producing

An evolutionary biologist at Purdue University named William Muir studied chickens. He was interested in productivity—I think it's something ...

Who We Are Is More Important than what We Do

What is more important: who we are or what we do? Here's how pastor Noel Jesse Heikinnen answers that question in his book Unchained:

Down through ...

NFL Quarterback Says Performance Requires Going on Autopilot

Any skill, art, or good habit requires more than knowledge. It also requires hours of training and practice. For instance, when Alec Baldwin asked NFL ...

Americans Perceive Overworked People as Having High Status

Taking the afternoon off for a round of golf or enjoying a beach holiday in a five-star resort were once signs of having "made it." But according ...

Inventor of the Big Mac Just Got a Plaque

In April 1967, hamburger lovers in Uniontown, Pennsylvania met a newer, bigger burger—it was called the Big Mac, and for 45 cents it delivered, ...

Family Creatively Admits Defeat to Neighbors' Christmas Decorations

Every year around the Thanksgiving holiday, families across the country begin decorating their homes (inside and out) with Christmas decorations. For ...

Competitiveness is a Better Motivator than Encouragement

If you've ever tried to find the motivation to start exercising more (around the New Year, perhaps), you have likely been encouraged to find a "workout ...