“I don’t know anything about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world,” Henry Ford told the Chicago Tribune in 1916.
During the world war, a Chicago newspaper published certain editorials in which,among other statements, Henry Ford was called "an ignorant pacifist." Mr. Ford objected to the statements, and brought suit against the paper...
Friday, June 7, 2019
Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
Enjoy yourself while you're still in the pinkEnjoy yourself, enjoy yourselfIt's later than you think.
You work and work for years and yearsYou're always on the goNever take a minute offTo busy makin' dough
Some day, you say, you'll have your funWhen you're a millionaireImagine all the fun you'll haveIn your old rockin' chair
Enjoy yourself it's later than you thinkEnjoy yourself while you're...
Making Of a Happy Genius
In 1973, four-year-old Susan opened the cupboard of their guest room and saw many chess pieces fell out of a small bag. Just next to them was a rolled-up chess mat. She took the mat out and looked at the pieces with the intrigue comparable to any other child of her age.
“What are these, Mummy?” Susan asked innocently, holding a piece in her hand and examining it.
“These are chess pieces,...
Thursday, June 6, 2019
Pygmalion Effect
The work of Rosenthal and Jacobsen (1968), among others, shows that teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. Rosenthal and Jacobson originally described the phenomenon as the Pygmalion Effect.
“When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways...
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
The Secret of Happiness
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When Gurdjieff (George Ivanovich Gurdjieff was a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Armenia, Gurdjieff's method for awakening one's consciousness referred to it as the "Fourth Way") was a small boy, his dying grandfather summoned his beloved protégé to be by his side....
The Secret of Mastery
The phenomenal Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was sitting in a small cafe in France. Waiting for his third cup of coffee, while a smoldering cigarette rested in an ashtray, he was doodling on a paper napkin. Oblivious to Picasso, another patron, a woman from an adjacent table, had been observing keenly. A few minutes later Picasso put his pencil down, lifted the napkin and stared at it blankly,...