My Inc.com article yesterday, “Get to Know This Emotional Cycle: It Will Improve Your Life” began Get to Know This Emotional Cycle: It Will Improve Your Life Healthy, active, productive activities are often hard to start. Learn this cycle to identify when to use your willpower to help. Yesterday was rowing day. It was also the first hot, humid, sticky day in New York City. I didn’t feel like doing[…] Keep reading →

My Inc.com article yesterday, “Breakthrough Science on Leadership and Why You Shouldn’t Read This Article” began Breakthrough Science on Leadership and Why You Shouldn’t Read This Article How great leaders who never learned leadership from science, books, or classes became great. As a leader, entrepreneur, and professor, I used to enjoy TED talks and learning about frontier science. Do you feel, watching them, like I felt: “This is forefront stuff. Since most people[…] Keep reading →

You’ve read about my online courses and their reviews. I’m working with some developers to create a new page to host the courses since joshuaspodek.com is a blog. I’d love to get the feedback of a few people on the new page, which is almost done. If you’re a regular reader, have an interest in my courses, know how to give helpful advice and feedback on web pages, and are[…] Keep reading →

I stumbled across these videos and couldn’t help sharing them. Almost anyone can do burpees. Why not do some today? I’ll note that nearly everyone, including the adults are doing the push-up with poor form, not keeping their backs straight. Pushing your shoulders up while bending back at the waist undermines that part. Might as well leave the push-up out or work on the form. Also note the rowing machine[…] Keep reading →

Continuing my series of alternative responses to the New York Times column, The Ethicist, looking at the consequences of one’s actions instead of imposing values on others, here is my take on today’s post, “Can You Keep a Woman From Courting Your Elderly Dad?” We are a large family, and our father is in his 80s. Our mother died several years ago, so our father moved into an upscale retirement[…] Keep reading →

If I had to count winners and losers in big social and political battles, I’d write them out this way. I’m not describing my views, just how I’d call it based on the outcomes I see, maybe being melodramatic but I don’t think groundlessly. According to massshootingtracker.org, a crowd-sourced database of U.S. mass shootings that defines a “mass shooting” as a single outburst of violence in which four or more[…] Keep reading →

Tuesday’s New York Times posted a chilling article, “How Do You Stop a Future Terrorist When the Only Evidence Is a Thought?” If you haven’t read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, you’ve probably still know the name he created for what the New York Times seems to seriously consider, thoughtcrime. It has a Wikipedia page that describes it: A thoughtcrime is an occurrence or instance of controversial or socially unacceptable thoughts… The[…] Keep reading →