Fear of Failure

Fear of Failure

Sociologist, Brene Brown says we are all wounded young. Because of that we tend to put on armor to protect ourselves from further wounding. We need to develop self-awareness or our undefined and unexplored emotion and cognition will control and drive every decision in...
A Different Kind of Smart

A Different Kind of Smart

In the 1990’s, about the time Shel and I were developing the 12 Tasks for our oldest sons, two university professors began to question whether IQ was enough to assess the true intelligence of people. They saw that, in terms of relational success, people with a high IQ...
Thirty Miles in Thirty Days

Thirty Miles in Thirty Days

My parents didn’t give me 12 Tasks. I had to forge my own way into adulthood when I was growing up in Kenya in the 1960s. Sports became my rite of passage, my quest. I grew up big and tall. In my grade school class photos, I stand head and shoulders over the other...