There was no need to hire a clown for my seventh birthday. Six girlfriends and I piled into my Dad’s huge 1960 Chevy station wagon to drive to the skating rink for my party. But his car wouldn’t start, so he got out and pushed it. But he slipped and fell in the mud. When… Continue reading Kids Like it When Something Goes Wrong
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Optimizing Yourself – Week 17 – Setting Constraints as Big as Dr. Seuss
Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel) was the master of setting constraints. He once made a bet with a publisher at Random House that he could write a book using 50 words or less. His power to set limits paid off when Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 200 million copies and was Seuss’s best- selling… Continue reading Optimizing Yourself – Week 17 – Setting Constraints as Big as Dr. Seuss