March 2010
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two thoughts on the state of healthcare in the...
(image courtesy of…) Over the weekend, I got a chance to talk to Elli. He was attending the 2010 Missouri State Medical Association Convention, and mentioned listening to a doctor-turned-state-representative who essentially argued that healthcare is not a right. Upon further investigation of the topic, I came across this editorial (not from the same person, I assume); the author suggests...
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learning to say no
Something I’ve struggled with for a long time. I think lots of people do - they know they should, they want to say no, but they end up saying yes anyway. From Covey: “I don’t mean to imply that you shouldn’t be involved in significant service projects. Those things are important. But you have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly,...
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asking good questions (and getting good comments)
Just before I graduated from my undergraduate program at Georgia Tech, I sent two emails to help me through the process of figuring out where to go next.
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The first, due to my interest in global health, was to the President of the Global Health program for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Tadataki Yamada. At the time, I was right in the thick of things with my...
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art & science
(image: Nikki Graziano) I’m fascinated with things at the intersection of art and science. Jonah Lehrer has a great book called Proust Was A Neuroscientist. The High in Atlanta just sponsored a Da Vinci exhibit about the intersection between Da Vinci’s sculpture and his understanding of the physical world. The new Le Laboratoire in Paris is dedicated to exploring that space. The image above is...
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what is the gap between stimulus and response?
Buried in the back of Stephen Covey’s book, in the last chapter, he writes about an experience he had while on sabbatical of walking into a library, opening a book, and reading one sentence that changed his life. The sentence essentially reads (and here I quote Covey): “There is a gap between stimulus and response, and the key to both our growth and happiness is how we utilize that space.”
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