The Essence of the Inside-Out Understanding (#995)

I’ve spent this past weekend teaching with and learning from my mentor and colleague, Dr. Ken Manning. One of the conversations we had stood out to me, because I recognized it to be completely true in my own experience:

There is a fundamental difference between “understanding” something intellectually and “realizing” it insightfully…..

Sandy Hook, Umpqua, and What One Person Can Do (#994)

I’ve been teaching in the UK this weekend and was looking through some of my old Huffington Post articles to see if there was anything in there worthy of recycling for this week’s tip. To my utter dismay, I came across an article I wrote the day after the killing of 26 people at Sandy Hook elementary school in December of 2012. According to the Guardian newspaper, there have been 933 mass shootings since that time…

Some Fresh Thoughts on Thought (#993)

It’s surprising how often I have what feels like a brand new insight into the nature of the human experience only to discover that I’ve not only glimpsed it before, I’ve actually written about it. In fact, it happens so often I’m tempted to call the follow up to The Inside-Out Revolution, “No… REALLY!”