Is the desire to be immortal a universal constant? I’ve never really thought about it like this before, but a combination of a short story by Hawthorne and a volume of short stories by Doyle, has me wondering about the desire for immortality. Hawthorne’s “The Devil in Manuscript” is a quick tale of an author who cannot find a publisher (he lived in the pre-blog era) and in despair hurls his life’s work into a fireplace. A fire roars up in the fireplace, sending flame onto the … [Read more...] about Becoming Immortal
Homer
Odysseus: Natural Born Leader
Everyone likes the idea of a role model for leadership. Here is the candidate of the day for that honor: Odysseus. There are thousands of books on How to be a Leader. Thousands. Yet, one of the best of them is also one of the oldest books in the world: Homer, The Odyssey. (As always—if you don’t read Greek, get a good translation. Life is too short to read bad translations. I highly recommend Fagles.) As a leadership text, Homer makes a fantastic starting … [Read more...] about Odysseus: Natural Born Leader