Sports/Popular Culture: Bravo Elizabeth Lambert…Sort Of!
Elizabeth Lambert has become an overnight sensation?but not in a good way. Thanks to the viral power of youtube, her decidedly unsportspersonlike (we can?t say unsportsmanlike any longer) behavior during a recent college soccer game has landed her in the Deplorable Behavior Hall of Fame along side such luminaries as Kermit Washington, Bill Romanowski, Mike […]
Read MoreBusiness: Work/Life Balance – Part II
In the September issue of Prime Business Alert!, I introduced you to my perspective on work/life balance: what it is, the causes of work/life imbalance, and the basic process for how you can create better balance in your work and personal lives. This issue will focus on specific and practical strategies you can use to actually establish […]
Read MoreSports: Intensity in Sports
The next three issues of Prime Sport Alert! will be devoted to intensity, which may be the most important contributor to athletic performance once the competition begins. It?s so important because all of the motivation, confidence, focus, and emotions in the world won?t help you if your body is not physiologically capable of doing what […]
Read MoreParenting: Unconditional Love is Bad!
The basic idea behind unconditional love seems quite reasonable. You should love your children just for who they are, regardless of what they do. Children shouldn’t have to worry whether their actions will cause you to love them less. They should be able to count on your love no matter what. But unconditional love is […]
Read MoreTechnology: Horse or Cart: Technology is Actually in Front
A fascinating new book, The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, by the economist W. Brian Arthur, was just published that challenges much of the conventional wisdom that we hold about the relationship between science and technology.? Most notably, the notion that science is the horse to technology’s cart; in other […]
Read MoreEconomics: Economists are Irrational!
I recently read an article by the Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman in which he described the renewed battle between so-called freshwater economists (so named because they are largely based at the University of Chicago and other Midwestern universities) and saltwater economists (based primarily at Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and other coastal universities). The freshwater economists […]
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