This is a good book for people who have been distracted with too much use in their life of smartphone apps, watching movies in Netflix, wasting time in social media and have ended up destroying their ability to concentrate on their studies or focusing on their job or listening intently
March 29, 2023
Is there a limit to love or charity? Does charity in us increase more and more forever, without limit? Will we never be bored in Heaven in all eternity (since there will always be new and exciting ways to love, a new person to love, and a new aspect of
March 23, 2023
If the kind of work involved in your company consists of straight forward tasks such as repetitive data entry work, an assembly line job, selling goods, then the carrot and stick incentives would easily work. Carrot would mean giving cash bonuses and stick would be punishments or penalties if there
March 21, 2023
What is the relation between the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament and the Beatitudes of the New Testament? The relation is not one of identity, nor is it one of opposition, nor is it one of simple difference. It is one of fulfillment. Christ said, “Do not think I
March 17, 2023
The author of this book, Cal Newport, gave credit to his commitment to “deep and focused work” for his good number of scholarly achievements in the last ten years. In one decade, after his college graduation, he published four books, earned a PhD, wrote peer‐reviewed academic papers at a high
March 16, 2023
A crucial conversation is characterized by three major factors: (1) the stakes are high, (2) opinions vary and (3) the parties involved have strong emotions. No doubt a crucial conversation must be handled with great care otherwise consequences on the aftermath of the conversation could have big negative repercussions on
March 9, 2023
To contemplate means to look at something or someone thoughtfully for a long time. Contemplation gives joy. When we contemplate for example the beauty of the stars at night in a cloudless sky, it gives us a certain kind of spiritual delight. St. Thomas Aquinas says the more noble is
March 4, 2023
Another admirable book from Steve Chandler is entitled “Crazy Good: A Book of Choices”. It says that your life can be awesome good and not just good enough. Being crazy good means you yourself would get surprised with what you have achieved as you look back at your life. You
March 2, 2023
What can we learn from a world class surgeon on performance & productivity? Atul Gawande is a distinguished surgeon in Brigham Hospital in Boston who has been in the battlefield surgical tents in Iraq and during a polio outbreak in India. In his book, “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance”,
February 28, 2023
We are all given a guardian angel. “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.” (Exodus 23:20) The Old Testament is full of accounts of angels assisting men in accomplishing God’s plan. God’s
February 27, 2023
The theological evidence of the presence of angels and devils in this world is in Holy Scripture. Holy Scripture is full of accounts of the presence of angels and devils. If you don’t believe in the existence of angels and demons then you don’t believe in Scripture. If you don’t
February 22, 2023