Stories: Not Just for Entertainment

This post contains affiliate links. “We’re not on our journey to save the world but to save ourselves. But in doing that you save the world. The influence of a vital person vitalizes.” ~ Joseph Campbell “Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses.” ~ Aleks Krotoski, author, broadcaster, journalist and social psychologist I’mContinue reading “Stories: Not Just for Entertainment”

The Importance of Story

“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.” ~ Helen Keller “Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is alwaysContinue reading “The Importance of Story”

Deep Listening

“One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” ~ Bryant H. McGill “The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.” ~ James Cash Penney “Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professorsContinue reading “Deep Listening”

What’s in a Word?

“The mind that opens up to a new idea never returns to its original size.” – Albert Einstein “We don’t have to agree on anything to be kind to one another.” – Janis Ian “If man understood that ‘what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating’ then he wouldn’t beContinue reading “What’s in a Word?”