Author: Todd Lohenry

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How Racist Are You? Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise

A very ‘eye opening’ (pun intended) exercise…

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8 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do

How can you help build resilience in your child? Here are 8 things to consider: 8 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don’t Do

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Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It.

Keep this story in mind when talking with stubborn people: “The earliest strong match for the modern saying located by QI appeared in the January 3, 1948 issue of “The Saturday Evening Post” within a profile of Cyrus Stuart Ching who was the head of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service: A man in the audience began heckling him with a long series of nasty and irrelevant questions. For a while Ching answered patiently. Finally he held up his big paw and waggled it gently. “My friend,” he said, “I’m not going to answer any more of your questions. I hope you won’t take this personally, but I am reminded of something my old uncle told me, long ago, back on the farm. He said. ‘What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy and the pig likes it.’”

Source: Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It – Quote Investigator

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“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”

“The quote “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us”  is often mistakenly attributed to Marshall McLuhan. It does NOT appear in “Understanding Media”, as Wilson Miner confidently asserts in the presentation below, indeed it does not appear in any published work by McLuhan at all. The quote was actually written by Father John Culkin, SJ, a Professor of Communication at Fordham University in New York and friend of McLuhan. But though the quote is Culkin’s, I would argue that the idea is McLuhan’s, as it comes up in an article by Culkin about McLuhan: Culkin, J.M. (1967, March 18). A schoolman’s guide to Marshall McLuhan. Saturday Review, pp. 51-53, 71-72. The idea presented in the quote is entirely consistent with McLuhan’s thinking on technology in general.”

Source: “We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us” | McLuhan Galaxy

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You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video! 😉

Now more than ever with the advent of new audio and video — like ‘deepfake’ — technologies to ‘stay woke, bitches’…

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Tell me I’m a good man

Final scene in which Private Ryan, as an older man, sees the grave of Captain Miller and says to his wife, “Tell me I’m a good man.”

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How to shift your mindset and choose your future

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The Amazing Way Bicycles Change You

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Steely Dan @ Sony Music Center, NYC. Band & Crew Rehearsal

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Beware of Darkness

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Boyz II Men ft. Babyface: A Song for Mama (At Home)

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@simonsinek on #leadership

When the people have to manage dangers from inside the organization, the organization itself becomes less able to face the dangers from outside. Truly human leadership protects an organization from the internal rivalries that can shatter a culture. When we have to protect ourselves from each other, the whole organization suffers. But when trust and cooperation thrive internally, we pull together and the organization grows stronger as a result.

Sinek, Simon. Leaders Eat Last Deluxe (p. 16). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
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Sanity

“Sanity is acting in accord with reality, and reality is what is happening in, with, around, and as you right now. Sanity is living with the present, insanity is living from the past.”

Shapiro, Rabbi Rami. Recovery—The Sacred Art (The Art of Spiritual Living). Turner Publishing Company. Kindle Edition.

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The Lockdown as a Spiritual Retreat

Five tips to harness the benefits of confinement: The Lockdown as a Spiritual Retreat

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How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship with your Spouse During Coronavirus Lockdown

Good stuff in here: “Since we all are under lockdown, we are spending a lot of time with our spouse. This can be a welcome change for some but for some it can be quite stressful too”: How to Maintain a Healthy Relationship with your Spouse During Coronavirus Lockdown

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Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond the coronavirus

Source: Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond the coronavirus

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7 Things Organized People Do That You (Probably) Don’t Do

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Finding Goldilocks: A Solution for Black-and-White Thinking

The sweet spot between opposite extremes is the zone of effective living: Finding Goldilocks: A Solution for Black-and-White Thinking

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Leaders eat last

My son is a former Marine captain. When he was going through Officer Candidate School, he told me there were times when he was leading a unit on an exercise and he didn’t have a chance to eat. Why? “Leaders eat last” he told me…

“This one choice, whether a leader puts themselves or their people first, determines if they are worthy of our love and loyalty.”

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Disappointment

Managing disappointment is a key to success in life and love: Disappointment

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