Teenagers at an archery party in Briarcliff, New York, 1956
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Don’t judge it till you’ve been in one of these things. A lot of these people start out as absolute saints. They’re SO kind, SO forgiving, SO loving, SO giving…for like, 4 months. And you think, this person seems to be a better person than me. I get tired, impatient, grumpy, hangry, and (s)he never does! Wow, I’m lucky to be with this person! (S)he makes ME want to be a better person! And everyone in the surrounding community just LOVES this person.
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This anecdote was recorded by western judo pioneer E. J. Harrison in his book The Fighting Spirit of Japan, published in 1913. The speaker is Sakujiro Yokoyama, one of the greatest judoka from the founding days of Kodokan Judo. This is a fascinating eye witness account to an actual duel of samurai.
Nagasaki and Hiroshima are synonymous with the US bombings of Japan during World War II, but many wonder why Tokyo was not bombed. After all, it is the city that comes to mind when thinking of Japan and was the seat of the Emperor. As history is focused on the outcomes many people are not aware of the number of considered targets and how decisions and uncontrollable factors caused the bombings to play out as they did. Today, we’ll explore the decision-making process that stopped Tokyo from being hit with an atomic bomb.
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In 1945, an American officer found an album of photos in a bombed-out Frankfurt apartment. They appeared to be of ordinary men and women, except that nearly all of them were wearing SS uniforms. The owner of the album was Karl-Friedrich Höcker. He was adjutant to Richard Baer, the commandant of Auschwitz from May 1944 until the Russians arrived in 1945.
Children have a more active imagination than adults, and young adults are less constrained by their own prior patterns of thought.
As people become “good at life,” they develop habits of thought that serve them well. These habits are thought styles that “work” (get results, impress people, carry us through difficult situations). As we accumulate “thought techniques,” three things happen.
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