For eight years I flew armed helicopters at night, low to the ground, through poor weather, into dangerous situations all around the world. I like to think there’s not much that can rattle me. Then I started driving lessons with my teenager. Strapped into a passenger seat with no controls, no steering wheel, no brakes—it’s […]
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Two days before Christmas 1944, the US Army was falling back through southeast Belgium. The German Army was pressing through the Ardennes Forest in a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the Second World War. On that frigid evening, the commander of a retreating American tank destroyer spotted a lone US soldier, armed with
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When asked his views on being authentic, I heard a Fortune 50 CEO tell this story to a group of high potential leaders in his company: When I was in my early twenties, I went skydiving with some friends. As we checked in, the attendant asked how much I weighed. Conscious of the girls in
Yesterday my dentist’s office reached out for me to reschedule an upcoming appointment that had been booked for five months. They gave me no reason, and a small part of my brain thought I should be upset. But I wasn’t. Quite the opposite—I wanted to help out. Why? Because, believe it or not, I love going
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For the orator to produce conviction three qualities are necessary… good sense, virtue, and goodwill. – Aristotle (Rhetoric, Book II) Nestled in Aristotle’s lecture notes on rhetoric from the 4th Century BCE, we find his little gem—the idea that we trust other people when we perceive them to have practical wisdom, solid values, and
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