Although this is an unusual post for this site — both in timing and content — I felt information on the Coronavirus/COVID-19 (i.e., its contagiousness, threat, precautionary measures, etc.) should be accessible to people. Because I couldn’t find any centralized information on it, though, I took the time to research and source the following facts…
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what. — Ernest Hemingway I’m going to give a little twist to today’s Thanksgiving post. In previous years, I have typically discussed the psychology of gratefulness, showcasing how giving gratitude can have some profoundly positive effects…
Don’t stress the could haves. If it should have, it would have. — Anonymous If there’s one thing humans are good at, it’s imagining how things could have gone differently. From those perfect shower-time comebacks to those infinite routes you could have taken to avoid a crash, we people often engage in what’s known as counterfactual thinking….
Eureka! — Archimedes According to the Law of Infinite Probability, there’s a chance that an alien race from the Andromeda galaxy will come down to Earth, seek out a random individual (who turns out to be you), and says: “Solve this riddle or we will destroy your planet.” Uh oh. PROBLEM SOLVING All right, so that…
It’s bad luck to be superstitious. – Anonymous Later today, I will be getting on a plane to check a big one off my “bucket list:” seeing the aurora borealis. Alongside my brother and dad, we’ll be meeting up in Iceland around noon tomorrow, and from then on, I’ll be gazing skyward until I see those…
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. — Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon.com, pictured below) If you didn’t know, Amazon is taking over the world. Already, they are the distributor for nearly 400 million retail products; their artificial intelligence system (Alexa) is in over 10 million homes; and now they own Whole…