When I first heard Maya Angelou teaching Oprah Winfrey, “When people show you who they are, believe them,” I said amen with the rest of the viewers. Believe them! They know themselves much better than you do.” —Maya Angelou Just as Winfrey said, though, it’s a lesson that can be easy to affirm and challenging to apply. People and organizations set the […]
Error by anecdote
Maybe you’ve heard this one: How many legs does a spider have? Eight? Do you really know? I mean have you counted them? In 300 B.C. Aristotle said that spiders had six legs and was classified as an insect. All the world believed him, until finally in the 1400s somebody actually counted and saw they […]
Wisdom requires action
At the Justice Conference in Chicago last month, local minister Rev. Harvey Carey provoked peals of laughter from attendees when he talked about people going from conference to conference, writing great ideas in their notebooks, going home mountain-top high, and then never applying those insights to their lives or work. I laughed too, in the […]