Success in Life

Pain vs. Suffering

It has taken me nearly four decades to learn the following distinction between pain versus suffering. At first glance, they seem the same. Pain does

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Money & Power

There’s an expression here in the United States that money changes people (for the worse) and that power corrupts people. I disagree. Instead, I think

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High Impact Moments

One of the biggest things you learn at McKinsey is the 80/20 “rule.” This “rule” says that 80% of the results you want can be

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Compound Errors

Over the past years, I’ve been intrigued by why airplanes crash. Yes, I suppose it’s a slightly morbid fascination, but I suspect it has to

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The Margin of Error

When engineers design bridges, they estimate the amount of forces that will be exerted on the bridge. They engineer the bridge to withstand those forces

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