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On the Importance of Friendship
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. – Ralph Waldo Emerson The Psychology of Friendship In 1938, Harvard University began what would become a groundbreaking study on what makes a healthy and happy life. Researchers tracked 268 Harvard sophomores throughout the years and eventually expanded the study to include their children, wives,…
Read MorePerforming Acts of Kindness without Expecting a Reward
Kindness In Action It started with a Croatian basketball player named Igor Perica. The 6-foot, 7-inch power forward had torn his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in his knee and came to me for the reconstruction surgery. At the time, I was an orthopedic consultant for the Chicago Bulls, he was a stranger in a strange…
Read MoreThe Right Decision isn’t Always Easy
As you can imagine, it’s not easy having to make treatment decisions for athletes. Especially when it could affect the team’s entire season and especially when it’s NBA superstar Michael Jordan. May 25, 1998. The Eastern Conference Finals in Conseco Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Indiana. In this series Michael “Air” Jordan and the Chicago Bulls were up…
Read MoreA Lesson in Handling Adversity with Bill Wennington
“When facing adversity, we should not ask, ‘Why me?’ but instead, ‘What am I supposed to learn from this?’” – Chip Conley What is Adversity? Merriam-Webster defines adversity as “a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune.” Athletes are one group of people who experience this more often than the general population…
Read MoreDead Lake
Namib-Naukluft National Park, Namibia “The poetry of earth is never dead.” —John Keats (from my book One World: A View of Seven Continents)
Read MoreNew trip report from Namibia
Did you know that the Namib desert stretches for 1,400 barren miles along the coast of southwest Africa and is the oldest desert in the world? Or that the highest dune in the area is 1,200 feet high? Learn more in the latest Round the World Trip Report
Read MoreNew trip report from Ecuador and Peru
Did you know that the Galapagos Islands are the peaks of volcanoes that built up vast accumulations of lava from the floor of the ocean? Or that they are a mere four to five million years old? Learn more in the latest Round the World Trip Report
Read MoreNew trip report from Madagascar
Madagascar… the oldest island in the world. While you may have heard of lemurs, did you know that Madagascar is the only place they are found and that there are over fifty species? Learn more in the latest Round the World Trip Report
Read MoreA Meaningful Career Choice: Understanding Strengths and Limitations
Most of us know someone who’s at a career crossroad, whether it’s the freshly minted graduate, the neighbor who’s struggling to reinvent himself after being “downsized,” or the former retiree whose post-recession nest egg seems to have shrunk from ostrich size to that of a hummingbird. At any age, it can be challenging to discover…
Read MoreImpromptu Visits with Friends: A Lost Art
During my childhood years, in the afternoon after school, I would go from house to house, rouse friends, and we would play our own variations of baseball, football, and cowboys and Indians. This typically took place in our front yards and in the street. In retrospect, I am not certain how much our neighbors appreciated…
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