“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
– Marcus Aurelius
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
– Lao Tzu
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anaïs Nin
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Portfolio of Activities
HACKETT LABS
At HACKETT LABS my focus is on teaching, researching, advising/coaching, and engaging in service activities at universities.
MDI.TOKYO
At MDI.TOKYO my focus is on delivering world-class Executive Education and Professional Learning & Development experiences to company employees and groups.
“Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.”
-Jurgen Habermas
“There are people across the country who deny evidence, invent their own facts and live in their own fantasyland.”
– David Brooks
“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The person who lies to himself or herself and listens to their own lie comes to a point that they cannot distinguish the Truth within, or around their self, and so lose all self-respect and all respect for others. And having no respect they cease to love.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
“The whole purpose of reasoning – of logic – is to arrive at the Truth. Not to pursue the Truth would be absurd. Truth is what gives meaning to all our endeavors.”
– D. Q. McInerny
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou
“though the world does not change with a change of
– Thomas Kuhn
paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world.”