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  • The Secret to Teaching Children Self-Control Is Letting Them See It in Others

    The Secret to Teaching Children Self-Control Is Letting Them See It in Others0

    Is self-control something you can acquire, like a new language or a taste for opera? Or is it one of those things you either have or don’t, like fashion sense or a knack for telling a good joke? Psychologist Walter Mischel’s famous results from the “marshmallow test” seem to suggest self-control is relatively stable and

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  • The Secret to Living a Life of Mastery

    The Secret to Living a Life of Mastery0

    In his classic book on practice, Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, George Leonard observes how many of us have conditioned ourselves to think life is an “endless series of climatic moments.” Writing in the early 90s, Leonard observed television commercials, “The race is run and won; beautiful young people jump up and

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  • The Secret to Having Model Manners

    The Secret to Having Model Manners0

    One day early last summer, we pulled our Alcuin Interns out of their normal work routine at Intellectual Takeout and informed them that they would be having a professional development day. This professional development involved going to a fancy club in downtown Minneapolis and taking a course in business etiquette. Knowing the instructor and having

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  • The Secret to Getting Along With Others

    The Secret to Getting Along With Others0

    I had already completed 16 years of schooling when I took a class to prepare for entrance exams to law school (I decided not to go). First order of business for nailing the exam: the study of logic. My mind was absolutely blown. I was stunned to discover that there are rules for thinking, proofs

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  • The Secret to Building a Close Family

    The Secret to Building a Close Family0

    It’s no secret how important good reading ability is. With only one-third of American school children reading at a proficient level, a student who not only reads but understands a book has a clear advantage over the rest of his peers. It is for this reason that many engaged parents follow the 1862 exhortation of

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  • The Secret Purpose of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’

    The Secret Purpose of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’3

    The most common view today of 15th-century Florentine philosopher-statesman Niccolò Machiavelli is that he was evil. Dubbed the founder of modern political philosophy, his evil reputation comes from his most famous work, The Prince, which openly endorses treachery, deceit, and backstabbing as political tactics. So, it’s no wonder that most people’s idea of Machiavelli is

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