I now know how John King, the host of CNN’s Inside Politics, must feel. Yesterday, he opened his show by literally tearing up his preparation notes for the broadcast. The original topics of the day were the Senate health care charade and the pending disassembling of the First Amendment to the Constitution in the form of … Read more
Charles Cooney, the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, explains the importance of accepting failure as critical to the learning process. Failure is not fatal, and success is not final. An expert is someone who has made more mistakes than anybody else. A successful expert is someone who recognizes mistakes and … Read more
The first alternative title for today’s post was “On Becoming Kim Peek.” Peek (1951-2009) was the savant after whom screenwriter Barry Morrow fashioned Dustin Hoffman’s character in the movie Rainman. I often use clips from a BBC documentary titled The Real Rainman to demonstrate Carl Jung’s principle of synchronicity. Peek had an amazing talent for finding … Read more
Two stories about seemingly unrelated statistics explain why Donald Trump is in danger of losing EVERYONE except his basest supporters. Polls This week there was a convergence of numbers unseen in recent history. Yesterday’s Gallup poll showed Trump’s approval at a new low of 37 percent. Disapproval is now 56 percent. Considering the drip-drip-drip … Read more
This morning’s edition of the Miami Herald included an article titled, “Conan Jokes May Have Killed, But He Stands Accused of Theft.” The plaintiff in the copyright infringement case is Robert Kaseberg, who among other credits was a staff writer for Jay Leno. According to the story, Kaseberg claimed, “he posted several jokes online that … Read more