When you were 18 months old, you had the world all figured out. You could see, hear, feel, touch, and taste things. You could walk. You could make sounds that caused things to happen. The world was magical. Interesting stuff appeared out of nowhere, right here, right now. You dealt with what was ...
What do streamline, color theory, anatomy, and arpeggios have in common?
If you guessed “fundamentals,” you get a gold star. Streamline is fundamental to competitive swimming. Color theory is fundamental to art, anatomy to medicine, and arpeggios to music.
Fundamentals are the foundational skills...
As of this week, it has been one year since I stopped drinking. As a person who has long been self-critical for my perceived lack of willpower, discipline, and “stick-to-it-iveness,” I am genuinely surprised to be able to share this accomplishment with you. This time last year I would not have pr...
A member of your project team—let’s call him Flash—fails to complete an important task by the agreed-upon date. You have a cordial conversation, and he explains that the supplier involved was shut down last week for plant maintenance. “OK, that’s legit,” you think to yourself. Flash can’t control...
These are my feet. Because I know you were all just thinking, “what I’d really like right now is a photo of Greg’s feet.” Bear with me.
Specifically, this is a photo of my feet in open-toe sandals at Kentucky Horse Park where my daughter was riding, along with a few hundred others, in a competiti...
Our eyes are amazing things, but it is our brains that are truly miraculous. The mind — our conscious experience — arises from our brains.1, 2 Thus understanding our brains is pretty important, because our conscious experience is everything. It is all we have. Yet in truth we do not have a consci...
Four days in June, 2023 will be remembered for two maritime disasters — maybe. The world was rapt in suspense when the Titan submersible disappeared on June 18 on a dive to the Titanic wreck. Five wealthy adventurers were lost. That is the disaster we will almost certainly remember.
Just four day...
Did you know you have a blind spot in each eye? And that your brain hides it from you?
None of us see the world as it is, but only as we interpret it. Even what we see with our own eyes is a reality constructed by our brains.
Download and print the PDF below, and you can do a simple experiment to...
What is emotional intelligence and why do we care?
Retexo offers tools for personal, interpersonal, and cultural growth. The context in which we provide those tools is business and leadership, but ultimately what matters to us is that people learn, grow, and live happier, more fulfilling lives wh...
We got hacked. And while IT security is certainly not our typical blog content, I thought it worth sharing in hope that it might spare a fellow business owner the same hassle, which, depending on your level of engagement with social media, could be much worse than it ended up being for Retexo. Re...
Personality tests, and personality psychology in general, are topics fraught with disagreement and controversy. In fact, it was only after much deliberation that we decided Retexo should offer personality assessments at all. One thing that helped us get comfortable with that decision was realizin...
Witness, in this image, both the beginning and the end of my conversation with this suspicious whitetail buck. As soon as his eyes locked with mine, ears pricked forward, I knew I had pushed too far, too fast. Separated though we were by the impenetrable undergrowth, my last careful step put me i...
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