Author: John Ingram Walker, MD

As a young adult, the Russian novelist, Dostoevsky, arrested for treasonous acts against Tsar Nicholas I was sentenced to death. Blindfolded, robed in white burial shroud, he was tied to

While studying medicine from 1905-1913, Albert Schweitzer also delivered theological lectures, gave organ concerts, wrote on organ building, completed his scholarly work, Quest for the Historical Jesus, wrote a 844

  Born on January 14, 1875 in a town near Strasbourg, Germany (now France), Albert Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his commitment to serve humanity

In his autobiography, Out of My Life and Thought, Albert Schweitzer wrote that after deciding to enjoy the academic life until he was 30-years old he would devote the rest

John D. Rockefeller, in Edwardian time the richest man in the world, was asked how much money he wanted. “Just a little more,” he replied. That sounds like many of

Existentialiam, the most practical philosophical approach of the past two centuries, offers a simple plan for living. The message of existentialism is that every one of us is responsible for

Sisyphus. You remember him from your seventh-grade mythology studies. Sisyphus, condemned by the Olympian gods to spend all eternity in fruitless labor, pushes a rock up a mountain only to

Alexander the Great conquered the entire known world by the time he was thirty-three. Within hours of his death from Babylonian swamp fever, the Hellenic civilization began to crumble. Napoleon,

You’ve heard of  the 80/20 rule from Pareto, an Italian economist who posited that 80% of the wealth is held by 20% of the people. Expand that concept and you

While individuals with a personality disorder demonstrate rigid adaptations to daily challenges that cause significant impairment in relationships those without impairment exhibit flexible adjustments to the world that provide enduring

Jack Welch chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001 increased GE’s value 4000% during his tenure. One key to success—each year he fired the bottom 10% of

Henry David Thoreau said, “If one marches confi­dently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to lead the life he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common