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'NY Times' Article Asks, 'When Did Humility Get So Vainglorious?'
An article in the New York Times observes how "humility is not what it used to be." As a matter of fact, it may be the exact opposite of what ...
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NBA Players Resist the 'Granny Shot'
After his 15 year career in pro basketball, Rick Barry had hit a remarkable 89.9% of his shots from the free throw line. But Barry also had one of the ...
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Competitiveness is a Better Motivator than Encouragement
If you've ever tried to find the motivation to start exercising more (around the New Year, perhaps), you have likely been encouraged to find a "workout ...
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The Frog Who Thought He Could Fly
Once upon a time there was a frog who lived in the north and wanted to go south for the winter as the swans did. Each year that frog watched the swans ...
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A Lesson from the Chinese View of Humility
The Chinese-American Christian leader Russell Jeung explains how his father taught him a profound lesson on the true nature of humility. Due to the maltreatment ...
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The Religion That Brings People the Greatest Happiness
In a question and answer period after one of his lectures, C.S. Lewis was asked which of the world's religions gives its followers the greatest happiness. ...
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Increase in Self-Promotion in Pop Music
This shouldn't come as a surprise, but a study reports self-regard, self-promotion, and plain old bragging are far more prominent in pop music than ...
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Mt. Everest Climber Had the Wrong Goal
In his best-selling book, Into Thin Air, John Krakauer tells the story of the ill-fated expedition to the summit of Mount Everest in 1996. In the book ...
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The Phrase 'A Mile Wide and an Inch Deep'
In 1889, American journalist and humorist Edgar Nye introduced the phrase "A mile wide and an inch deep." He was referring to a river found ...
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High-Wire Walker on the Dangers of Invincibility
The Walk is the 2015 motion picture, and true story, about high-wire artist Philippe Petit. In 1974 he fulfilled his dream of walking between the World ...
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