Self help is not mysterious. It’s not even difficult. It all boils down to a few commonsense things. Once you know these few things, there’s not much excuse for ever feeling helplessness, frustration, anger or fear ever again. First principle: Know what you want. Second principle: Know why you want it. With those two facts, [...]

I recently read in the Amazon.com review of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers,”: “Examining the lives of outliers from Mozart to Bill Gates, [Gladwell] builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on a tide of advantages, “some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky.” Another recent writer (wish I could remember who so [...]