Author: Lem Usita
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Listening to a Hashtag
So I don’t normally take a look at the “explore” feature on Twitter. Seriously, who has time? I mean, I can barely keep up with the amount of followers that I have – and I like to at least have tweet conversations with them. Those with thousands upon thousands aren’t…
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What You’re Looking For
I know U2 wrote a song about it, but even after the song – they haven’t told you how to find it. If you think that this blog post is going to tell you how to find it – well – let’s talk about it. I’d love to help you.…
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Expert and Expertise
I was listening to some experts chat yesterday. It was interesting to hear them talk about how it was possible to have expertise in something, but to also be horrible in the actual experience of it. You can have expertise, and not be an expert in it. Does this make…
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20 Year Friendships
Do you have any of those? You know – those friendships that began when you looked way skinnier and was much younger. It’s those friendships that you’ll basically have for the rest of your life. If you’ve stayed friends for 20 years, you love each other enough to be friends…
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Hanging Out With Doctors
Have you ever seen the Big Bang Theory tv show? Who’s your favorite character? Sheldon? Howard? Leonard? Rajesh? Penny? Amy? Bernadette? Is there anyone else that I didn’t write down that might be your favorite? It’s a show that we watch. We’ll even watch old episodes that we’ve seen again.…
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Junk Thoughts
As a good Christian person, I think I have only ever thought about my thoughts in terms of right and wrong thoughts. I have never thought about my thoughts in terms of quality = valuable thoughts vs. junk thoughts. i think I heard about this idea on a podcast. Junk…
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Driving Through L.A.
So last Friday I drove though LA. I love Los Angeles. I lived there for many years. I drove in the traffic, and it’s always fun to drive this one stretch of the 5 from the 91 to Burbank. It’s a happy place for me – and if you have…
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Phone Numbers
Phone numbers used to be an identity marker. Growing up, I knew everyone’s phone number. I had it all memorized. I knew all of our numbers. I knew all of my aunt’s and uncle’s numbers. I knew phone numbers of my friends. If I called you I had your number…
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Paideia
noun [mass noun] (in ancient Greece) a system of broad cultural education. formal the culture of a society. paideia (Greek: “education,” or “learning”), system of education and training in classical Greek and Hellenistic (Greco-Roman) cultures that included such subjects as: gymnastics, grammar, rhetoric, music, mathematics, geography, natural history, and philosophy. In the early Christian era the Greek paideia, called humanitas in Latin, served as a model for Christian institutions of higher learning, such as the Christian school of Alexandria in Egypt, which offered theology as the culminating science of their curricula. The term was combined with enkyklios (“complete system, ” or “circle”) to identify a large compendium of general education, hence “encyclopaedia.” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/paideia) I so want this. Well, I want this except for the gymnastics part. I’m hoping…
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Critique Your Own Work
I heard this concept today. I quite liked the idea. It was said of a popular artist today who had written a book and took the time to critique his own work. They then started talking about how it was such a mature and humble thing to do. The reason…
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The Gravitas of Affirmation
….is immeasurable. grav·i·tas (grv-täs) n. 1. Substance; weightiness: a frivolous biography that lacks the gravitas of its subject. 2. A serious or dignified demeanor: “Our national father figure needs gravitas, [but] he’s pitched himself as the kid brother” (John Leo). [Latin gravits, heaviness, seriousness; see gravity.] af·fir·ma·tion (fr-mshn) n. 1.…
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