Cultivating the Heart
Short but touching writings will make the field of your heart rich.
Oct 12, 2020
Temperature of Life, 36.5℃
Normal body temperature is 36.5℃ [97.7℉]. In this temperature, blood circulation and enzymes activities that are crucial for the support of life such as metabolism, immunity, digestion, and…
Oct 8, 2020
The Best Time to Start
Grandma Moses, an American folk artist, began painting in earnest around the age of 80 and made about 1,600 pieces of artwork before dying at the age of…
Oct 6, 2020
The Niagara Syndrome
Life is like a flowing river. The river is calm and quiet on a flat land, but the water current gets fast when it meets a waterfall, and…
Oct 2, 2020
Metacognition
A broadcasting company conducted an experiment to find the secret of excelling in studies. The experimenter separated the students who obtained top ranks in the mock exam from…
Sep 28, 2020
Zero-based Thinking
Historian Arnold J. Toynbee said, “If you cling to past success experiences, you will fail.” Alvin Toffler, a global futurist, warned: “To survive in the future, we must…
Sep 24, 2020
Telegram
Arthur Conan Doyle, a British detective fiction writer, liked to play jokes. One day, he sent a telegram to his friends anonymously. Then he visited each of his…
Sep 22, 2020
The Easiest Way to Relax
When animals show off their power, they inflate their body and make it look as big as possible. When a man is filled with confidence, he lifts up…
Sep 18, 2020
Like a Roly-poly Toy
A roly-poly toy never falls; even though it is pushed over, it bounces back up soon. The reason a roly-poly toy rights itself immediately though it seems to…
Sep 16, 2020
Language Habits to Be Thrown Away
All people want others to listen to what they say, and want to have a good conversation. Sound Expert Julian Treasure says that there are seven bad speaking…
Sep 14, 2020
Roberto Clemente Award
Roberto Clemente was a leading hitter of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Major League Baseball for nearly twenty years. He regularly donated baseball equipment and food for poverty-stricken…
Sep 10, 2020
Between Stimulus and Response
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor…
Sep 8, 2020
Benefits of Tribulation
One of the methods to grow tomatoes is pricking the fruit with a needle when it just produces the fruit. Then it takes nutrient from the root to…
Sep 4, 2020
Pink Lens Effect
When you fall in love, dopamine is secreted from the brain’s nucleus, and you feel much joy and happiness. Naturally, there will be liveliness and more smiles on…
Sep 2, 2020
The Reason Robert Marchand Raced
Robert Marchand, known as the living legend of aged cyclist was born in France in 1911 and went through two World Wars. For his living, he job-hopped—firefighter, truck…
Aug 28, 2020
The Miracle of the Team in the Last Place
An English football club of which the transfer fee of all 11 players in total is less than half of the transfer fee of one player in a…
Aug 26, 2020
No Matter How Much You Have
Charles F. Feeney, known as a rich Irish American, has kept his promise to return all his property to society by donating $7 million to his alma mater,…
Aug 24, 2020
In the Same Daily Routine
Are you bored and tired of your repetitive daily life? In a survey conducted by a job portal site, the most skeptical moment for employees is when they…
Aug 20, 2020
Learning from a Plant
Gang Hee-an, who was a representative writer and painter in the early years of Joseon Dynasty, was also good at gardening. In his book, Yanghwa Sorok, he recorded…
Aug 18, 2020
Uncomfortable Happiness
When an opponent team made a mistake in an athletic match, when a boss I dislike was scolded by his boss, when a friend in a similar grade…
Aug 14, 2020
A Life Saved by a Piece of Bread
During the First World War, a German soldier raided the enemy’s trenches, entrusted with the task of capturing enemy soldiers. An enemy soldier got caught in his hand.…
Aug 12, 2020
To Become King
The education for the crown prince in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea was very strict. The prince had to be thoroughly educated because he was the pillar to…
Aug 10, 2020
Time Horizon
The horizon is the line where the earth or sea seems to meet the sky, and it is also used figuratively to mean vision or possibility in a…
Aug 6, 2020
Something More Valuable than a Gold Medal
There are not only gold, silver, and bronze medals at the Olympic Games. There is also a medal that has nothing to do with the game result and…
Aug 4, 2020
A Tree and Grass
A tree in the forest asked the grass that lied down flat on the ground, “Hey, how can you live here with such a small and weak body?”…
Jul 30, 2020
While You Don’t Know
In the dramatic poem, “Pippa Passes,” by Robert Browning, a representative English poet, the main character Pippa is a poor girl who works for a silk factory in…
Jul 28, 2020
They Just Have Not Realized Yet
Benjamin Zander is a prominent conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, and a renowned orator on leadership and the value of life. This is what a child said…
Jul 24, 2020
The Most Important Thing
Rick Rescorla was a U.S. Army officer, and he served as a security officer at an investment bank in New York after his retirement. He trained employees to…
Jul 22, 2020
Focusing Illusions
When you are young, you believe you would be happy if you have what you want; when you are trying to get a job, you think you would…
Jul 20, 2020
Page-turner
At a chamber orchestra or a piano recital, there is one person who is almost unnoticed to the audience though he stands on stage throughout the performance. He…
Jul 16, 2020
Men Before Nature
The Himalayas are called the Roof of the World. Although it’s been over 60 years after New Zealand’s mountaineer Edmund Hillary left the first footprints on Mount Everest,…