Carl Jung was whispering to me again last night, “Synchronicity. Look for the coincidences. They are there if only you look.” My attention then turned to a discussion on cable news. The pundits, as they have for several weeks, were comparing the current political situation to Watergate. Not surprisingly, the debate turned to the … 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
I could not help but think the ghost of Joseph Nye Welsh (1890-1960) was in attendance at yesterday’s Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing. Welsh, as some of you may remember, was chief counsel for the United State Army when he confronted Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during a hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on … Read more
Gal Godot, the actor who portrays Diana Prince aka Wonder Woman in the pre-summer blockbuster of the same name, describes her character as “having many strengths and powers, but at the end of the day she’s a woman with a lot of emotional intelligence.” (Source: Entertainment Weekly, March 7, 2016) If she wanted to hide her … Read more