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Difficult Times

Posted by Steve Roberts on
 July 5, 2020
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A 12 year-old Little League batting champion faces a major league pitcher who has just won the Cy Young award as the best at his trade.  Fifty pitches.  Fifty swings.  The kid hits nothing but air.  Electrocuted with frustration, the boy then does his all-star best to transform his Louisville Slugger into toothpicks.  

Why?

Did the pitcher make him miss?  

Did his misses make him angry?  

That would be the easy answer. 

The popular vote, I bet.

 But as when we say

 the sun rises in the east,

 the truth is far more illuminating.  Read More

Conflict The Power of Choice
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Life on the Leading Edge of Evolution

Posted by Steve Roberts on
 July 7, 2018
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Addiction––specifically addiction to beliefs––may be the primary impediment to human evolution.  Or, turning it around, the obstacle that yields the greatest rewards.  At issue: how we define reality and how ferociously we hold on to that definition.  There’s reason to smile. Read More

Addiction Essays
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Enough is Not Enough

Posted by Steve Roberts on
 April 19, 2018
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What do we really mean by enough?

Attitude Podcast
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"The push to change the words “nigger” and “injun” in Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, because the so-called offensive nature of those terms might limit today’s readership and appreciation of that literary classic, is a wonderful opportunity to reflect on how we avoid taking responsibility for our feelings––and therefore miss the chance to become more awake, more whole, more useful friends to one another."

The Essay: The Gold in Niggers and Injuns