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How do you live life in crescendo in a world where there are divergent beliefs? How do you stretch yourself when there are laws and social morays that put borders around what you can and can’t do? And how can you afford to pursue dreams when chances are, you have certain financial constraints? Let me […]
Not everyone lives a full life in crescendo. Some people’s lives are cut short in pursuit of their dreams. After the Civil War the federal government began a program of creating national cemeteries for the Union dead. Following President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865, the first known observance of a Memorial Day-type observance was […]
The stories are endless, but here are a few brief examples of how simple ideas have changed the world. What’s yours? Frederick Smith wrote a paper for a Yale economics class that outlined overnight delivery service in the information age. His paper received a “C” but Smith later went on to create FedEx. Reid Hoffman, […]
George Eliot once said, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” Except George Eliot was the pen name for Mary Anne Evans, one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner […]
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.” — Saint Augustine Perhaps the greats do what they do because their crescendo is unfettered […]
Living life in crescendo still has its setbacks. Picture your BHAG as riding a bull. Sooner or later, you’re going to get thrown to the ground. As Vince Lombardi says, “It’s not whether you get knocked down–it’s whether you get up.” And the longer you stay down, the harder it will be to get back […]
Yo-Yo Ma was born in 1955 to Chinese parents living in Paris. He began to study the cello with his father at age four and soon came with his family to New York. He comes by his musical prodigy status honestly, with his mother a singer and father a professor of music at Nanjing National […]
Nora D. Volkow, M.D., became Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health in May 2003. NIDA supports most of the world’s research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. Dr. Volkow’s work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction is a disease of the […]
Dr. Dimitri Azar MBA, MD gave me a routine Lasik evaluation a few years ago. His lobby video monitor was playing opera, so during my appointment I asked him if opera was his passion. He replied, “I love the opera but I can’t volunteer my time to the arts.” Then his eyes beamed, “My goal […]
You would think that John Williams could rest on his laurels. He has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, all Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, Schindler’s List, War Horse, and the first three Harry Potter […]