EQ Plays a Role in Personal Success It turns out that a scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a piece of candy. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torture. You can...
How to Cultivate EQ (How to Cultivate EQ;) What is the most valuable contribution employees make to their companies, knowledge or judgment? I say judgment. Knowledge, no matter how broad, is useless until it is applied. And application takes judgment...
A Leisure Boom in Japan My knees are shaking, my heart is beating wildly and my head is enclosed in a crash helmet (防撞头盔) that seems much too thin. Balanced at the edge of a narrow white platform, I am about to jump head first into a hot new...
Not to Expect Profits Soon from Euro Disney The Euro Disney Corporation, acknowledging that its elaborate theme park had not performed as strongly as expected, announced Thursday that it would sustain a net financial loss of unpredictable scale in it...
Does Mickey Mouse have a beard? No. Does this mean that French men seeking work with the Disney organization must shave off their moustaches too? It depends. A labor inspector took the Disney organization to court this week, contending that the compa...
What Does It Really Mean to Grow Old In my late fifties, and then my sixties, I heard, I can't believe you're that old. You don't look that old. At first that felt like praise. Then I became a bit uneasy. It reminded me of early pre-feminist days whe...
Why Are Women Afraid of Wrinkles When I casually mentioned to a colleague that I was looking into skin cream that claimed to beat back the destruction that comes with age, her worries poured out. A month ago, she told me, she had suddenly noticed wri...
Slavery Gave Me Nothing to Lose I remember the very day that I became black. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville, Florida. It is exclusively a black town. The only white people I knew passed through the town going...
Genetics and Environmental Factors in Creating Genius Dr. Howard Gardner of Harvard University believes that geniuses are largely made. He has banned television from his home because he fears it might ruin the minds of his family. He makes time every...
Geniuses and Better Parenting It is a popular myth that great geniuses the Einsteins, Picassos and Mozarts of this world spring up out of nowhere as if touched by the finger of God. The model is Karl Friedrich Gauss, supposedly born into a family of...
