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There Is No Need, for Needless Worry

There Is No Need, for Needless Worry

Five hundred years ago, Michel de Montaigne said: “My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” According to Don Joseph Goewey, “Now there’s a study that proves it. This study looked into how many of our imagined calamities never materialize. In this study, subjects were asked to write down their worries over an extended period of time and then identify which of their imagined misfortunes did not actually happen. Lo and behold, it turns out…

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The Danger of Being a Pew Sitter

The Danger of Being a Pew Sitter

At almost 1,500 feet below sea level, the Dead Sea is the lowest land on the face of the earth. The sea receives water from the Jordan River and several springs around and beneath it, but because it is landlocked, the Dead Sea merely gathers all the water that flows into it. As the water from the Jordan and the springs around it flow to the sea, it gathers minerals from the rocks and land it passes. The most common…

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The Vindication of Theo Epstein

The Vindication of Theo Epstein

In 2011 the Chicago Cubs hired Theo Epstein to be their president of baseball operations. He came from Boston having led that franchise to two World Series championships and ending what had been the third longest championship drought in Major League Baseball. The Cubs ownership gave Epstein complete control of every baseball decision, and he along with his team proceeded in making the Cubs horrible. In 2012, 2013, and 2014 he traded several of the best most loved players from the…

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