In a crisis we depend on the level of training we have mastered. Ask a sailor.
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Why is our level of training important?
Food for Thought
Good Manners and Forks
Good manners is much more than knowing what fork to use. Good manners is listening to the other person and showing them respect.
Based on a comment during an interview with George Will
Facts versus Opinions
“You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.”
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
The Earth is round 
The Earth is flat
How to navigate Impossible Conversations
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Do you have difficulty having conversations with people who strongly disagree with you? There are plenty of subjects these days that lead to very unpleasant arguments. I don’t have to tell you what these subjects are.
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Realising the great unknown
The importance of realising how much we do not know.
Kruger National Park August 2021
Good friends are visiting Kruger this week. They have seen plenty of game including a leopard. They are having a great time. Here are some of the pictures they have WhatsApped to me. Enjoy!
Six pictures, starting with a picture they took of two baboons in a tree!
Scroll down please.
PS The Baboons were not in a tree above the lions! If they were, that is what they would be thinking!
Persistence is the key to success
Sunlight and Free Speech
The sunlight of free speech is the best disinfectant against the darkness of irrational beliefs.
Based on a metaphor in Free Speech by Andrew Doyle
Freedom of Expression (Free Speech)
How important is freedom of expression (free speech)?
Listen to the words of Benjamin Cardozo, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1932–38. He described freedom of expression as:
‘(T)he matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom’.
Quote from Free Speech by Andrew Doyle
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