Fish(er) Tales

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! These posts will give you a better idea about what this site is about. Start here, then go here, and here, and then here.John Moore reviews books via Powerpoint slides. Here’s his latest take on Tom Peters’ fantastic, must-read book – Little Big Things. I couldn’t do any better than this. Enjoy...

In the “Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar” book James Bach discusses how self-education can lead to success. It was enlightening to me to read about his story, and apply it to my own pursuit of knowledge. Here are a few takeaways: “My plan is easy to summarize: get out and try stuff.” And “for knowledge workers, the right idea at the right time will lead to success, wealth,...

Eight requisites for contented living: “Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Hope...

I was musing on my teaching philosophy (I teach some college courses and train a lot of amateurs and professionals alike). And I ran across a saying attributed to Goethe that goes like this: “If you treat a man as he is, he will remain as he is; if you treat him as he ought to be and could be, he will become as he ought to be and could be.” – Goethe Unfortunately, you can fall prey...