Want to gain insight into a Trump voter? Go back in time and watch the movie Cool Hand Luke.

Paul Newman plays Luke, the lead character, who is a prisoner sentenced to two years in an Arkansas work camp. Luke has two nemesis, the warden and the prison boss. Both dislike him for his free spirit and non-conformist ways. He ends up in the cross hairs of both these men precisely because he will not play by their rules.

The warden goes out of his way to break Luke, He continually mocks Luke by saying “Luke we have to get…

My children go to great schools here in Texas. The instruction is excellent, facilities are outstanding, and teachers are wonderful. The total educational environment makes it almost impossible for a student not to get good grades.

All the courses, materials and instruction are online. Given advanced technology, if a student gets stumped on a question, the answer is literally one click away on the internet. Grade point averages are no longer scaled on a 4.0 average, with a 4.0 being an A. Students now graduate with 5.0 averages and higher. These higher numbers are meant to differentiate students who take…

I just finished the The Four by Scott Galloway. The Four is a book about the rise of the four most important companies in today’s economy: Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon.

It was a fascinating read in that it explains the direction our society is moving and the impact that all of these companies have on the economy. The author goes into the back story of how all of these companies started and the way they saw opportunities to start their business.

All four of these companies are revolutionizing the way business is done and if you are in any…

“You are what your record says you are.” Bill Parcells

When I was a young child living in Florida, we did not own a vacuum cleaner but had a carpet in the play room. In order to keep it clean, my father use to make me get on my knees and crawl, row by row, on the carpet to pick up every fleck of dirt. This was a weekly chore and had to be done perfectly. Given my age, this task would take hours to complete and it was beyond boring. …

Palmer Luckey is the founder of the tech company Oculus Rift. When interviewed by Blake Harris for Harris’ book “ The History of The Future”, Luckey shared that as a child he had dreamed of being the super villain as opposed to a super hero. Lucky went on to explain that in comic books, the villains were always the ones with the coolest gadgets! They had the tools to spy on and locate people, while heroes only had their special abilities to combat the villain’s high tech gadgetry. …

“True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.” Whittaker Chambers

Want some context on Trump and the collusion case? Check out Witness by Whittaker Chambers.

The book chronicles his early years in New York and membership in the Communist Party as a youth in the 1920’s. Later he worked as a Soviet spy. He came to his senses after learning about the horrors of Stalin and purges in Russia. In 1937, disillusioned with the Community Party and with a simultaneous conversion to Christianity, he said that Communism “Is evil, absolute…

I first heard the quote, “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely” in history class. We were studying World War II. My teacher related it to how power affected Hitler and Stalin during the years they controlled Germany and Russia, respectively.

I think a corollary quote of equal importance is “Corrupt people seek power .”

If the electorate remained alert for people exhibiting such behavior, often found in people seeking the highest political offices, we would be much more demanding in how we vet candidates. But we don’t. …

The players were waiting for the coach to tell them what to do. That’s why they lost.

They lost the game 3–0 and it showed. Instead of playing with fluidity and rhythm, they played mechanically. When stressed, and faced with adversity, the kids simply could not adjust

Soccer has an element of art and creativity that just doesn’t exist in most other sports. In soccer, it takes time to understand the mechanics and the basics. Many players never get past that point to realize the creativity that is needed to excel at the game

Much in life is the same.

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