Most professional accountants remember their final exam. Even people in their eighties can tell you about the question they aced or totally blew. One memory that stuck with me was my friend Jim remarking to me as we exited the…

Last night, at the dojo, John was teaching. John has a radically different way of teaching martial arts. He smiles. He cracks jokes. He took a serious Aikido exercise and called it the “Weeble Wobble” (as in “weebles wobble but…

In Aikido, the teacher is referred to as “Sensei” meaning literally, one who has gone before. When he was 10, my son used to be quite good at Judo. Now that he’s 15, we have been encouraging him to go…