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In economics, there is a principle called “Opportunity Cost.” Basically, Opportunity Cost refers to what you lose from one pursuit while working or focusing on something else. This is closely tied to our previous talk on knowing what the tradeoffs are for each decision you make. What are you losing

In his bestseller, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business, author Charles Duhigg makes the assertion that habits are not broken. Instead, he notes that habits must be replaced. For those of you that follow ancient teachers like Saul of Tarsus, this should

In a recent interview on Fox News, Tim Scott (a Senator from South Carolina) gave an interesting – and enlightening – analogy regarding perspective. The conversation with host, Trey Gowdy, revolved around the pain of historic race relations in the US. More specifically, what weight should be given to the

Have you noticed a severe uptick in judgementalism since the beginning of the COVID pandemic? It seems that the muzzle of courteous conduct has been taken off in favor of everyone proclaiming their own goodness and decrying the decisions of others. As if, somehow, a single individual’s choice about a