As the 1970’s approached, creativity researcher George Land set out to investigate how creativity changes as we age. The study, funded by NASA, tested children aged 3-5 on creativity via a test utilized on NASA recruits. An astonishing 98% of…
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As I sat there drinking my Topo Chico, I began reading a recent article in the NY Times. It was discussing the recent phenomena of an increased rate of cancer in our youth. Traditionally, cancers, and particularly those like colorectal…
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Discomfort is required in life. It is as simple as that. If you try to avoid discomfort, you have already lost. Discomfort is the infinite game that we all must play if we wish to live a healthy and fulfilling…
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The Golden Girls is on USA network for the 1,350,318 time this week and you are jonesing to watch some (I’m not sure if the USA network even exists anymore as we do not have cable nor a TV in…
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The worst 4 words you can hear coming out of your doctor’s mouth are “well, the guidelines say…” Actually, “the consensus guidelines say” may be even worse. What this is code for is, we do not have data, so I…
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While we have never had a television in our home, we did have WiFi internet. We (OK, I) decided to get rid of this and replace it with wired ethernet in our two home offices. This small change had rather…
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Whether we are planning our garden for next spring, laying a stone wall in our yard, or writing our next exercise program, or even putting together that annoying power point for our office incarceration—uh, I mean job—we not only require…
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We were spending some time at a good friend’s beautiful pool this month. It is an absolutely stunning pool with a slate deck, blue tile pool, and a couple statues around it. It is surrounding by massive century-old trees that…
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With the spread of the Internet’s reach, along with the infestation of social media and political entertainment masquerading as news, there is no limit to how wide our world, or at least our view of the world, has become. The…
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