The harsher sides of our reality

From “Dropout to Doctorate: Breaking the Chains of Educational Injustice” By Terrence Lester, PhD Yet the harsher sides of our reality were never far away. During Little League football and baseball practices, Coach Kool-Aid (who played football for Grambling State University, a historically Black college and university – HBCU) used to say, “Not everyone is […]

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AI responses

From “How AI Changes Your Customers: The Marketing Guide to Humanity’s Next Chapter” by Mark Schaefer Researchers from Muck Rack analyzed 1 million AI responses to help us see how the information is prioritized. Here are some findings:

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to the field of spirituality

From “What Makes You Come Alive: A Spiritual Walk with Howard Thurman” by Lerita Coleman Brown As high school valedictorian, Thurman qualified for a tuition fellowship to Morehouse College. In 1919, he began his studies at Morehouse, exploring a wide array of subjects but focusing primarily on economics and sociology. During the summer prior to

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the importance of effort

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD We have lots of sayings that stress the importance of risk and the power of persistence, such as “Nothing ventured, nother gained” and “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again” or “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”) By the way, I

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the value of noise and error

From “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation” by Steven Johnson Nemeth has gone on to document the same phenomenon at work in dozens of different environments: mock juries, boardrooms, academic seminars. Her research suggests a paradoxical truth about innovation: good ideas are more likely to emerge in environments that contain a

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