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Posts From the monthly archives: "May 2012"
Even though Can and Can’t are located on opposite sides of the ability spectrum, it is surprising easy to turn one into the other. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia proved this recently when it turned all their CAN’T billboards into CAN by the simple insertion of their CBA logo. Barry Mourad from the…(Read More)
According to the latest statistics, I fall into the minority. Male, over fifty and NOT having taken the Prostate cancer test. My family doctor looks at me with distain every time I meet her on the street – since I almost never visit her in her clinic. Unlike my wife Shirley (a blessing to the…(Read More)
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” ― Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts Lance was wrong when he wrote that “Quitting lasts forever”. Nothing lasts forever. In the classic fairy tale, the main characters go on to live happily ever after. Religions put out the lure of everlasting bliss for their believers. Enterprising sales people sell the…(Read More)
Whether born out of our moral upbringings or imagined by our logical minds, the sense of fairness has a vast control over our attention spans. We constantly battle with how unfair life can be – as if fairness is a desired and attainable state. At our club racing, our handicapper has a difficult time grading…(Read More)
We are rapidly losing our alertness. And multi-tasking is to blame. Instead of having all our wits, we are becoming half-wits. Productivity and progress is defined by how much activity we can pack into a day. When I was in the building game, constructing a concrete wall was the perfect example of sequential…(Read More)