I Prefer to Work with People Who Played Team Sports

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by Brian Lee on December 10, 2007 .

A few years ago, I came to the realization that just about all of my close friends and everyone that I really “clicked” with in the professional world had played some form of team sports when they were a kid.

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Are You a Conformist or an Anti-Conformist Conformist?

24 September 2007
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The most ancient social duality is the tendency of humans to split into one of two groups:

The Conformists
or

The Anti-Conformist Conformists.

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How Husker Football has Contributed to Nebraska’s Character

10 September 2007
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I grew up in a small suburban town on the southernmost tip of Omaha, where the rolling hills of the Missouri valley meet the flats of the Platte River basin.

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Why Smart People do Dumb Things

23 July 2007
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Isn’t it strange how smart people tend to do dumb things? I guess it’s one of those paradoxes of life when a computer genius locks himself out of his house, or a science whiz can’t remember where she left the pencil she used two minutes before. It’s almost as if geniuses are using so much [...]

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No One Feels Sorry for Someone Who Feels Sorry for Himself

12 June 2007
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It’s funny how empathy works. It’s easy to feel for someone who’s completely unselfsish and sweeps their own pain under a rug; but the second they demand our sorrow, our will to empathize with them vanishes. Paradox This phoenomenon seems to work against logic. We empathize with (and help) those who need it least (or [...]

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The Smell of Freshly Cut Grass

26 April 2007
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Every time I catch the scent of freshly cut grass, no matter where I am, my life pauses for a moment as I transport back to one of my favorite places and feelings of all time… I used to have a lawn mowing business in high school where I spent countless hours gliding over lawns [...]

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