What’s the smallest change that’s made the biggest difference in your life?
That’s an easy one for me: We canceled cable.
One phone call. Big difference.
Becky and I didn’t do it because of some profound philosophical shift we underwent. Nope, what happened was we sat down to watch X-Files one Sunday night – as we were in the habit… 
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The Smallest Change That’s Made The Biggest Difference
Creative Contradictions #2
What’s this series all about? Read Creative Contradiction #1.
2. Convergent and divergent. The folks with the most consistent creative output are thought to be using two contradictory yet complimentary modes of thinking: convergent and divergent.
Convergent thinking is logic, measured by IQ tests. It’s used to solve a definable problem and find its one right answer. …
Creative Contradictions #1
My nephew Phillip is extremely creative. His father, Brian, wonders if that’s why he moved his family here to Nashville a few years ago – not so Brian and I could work together, but so I could help interpret Phillip to him and reassure him on a regular basis that Phillip’s completely normal. For…
Significance Part 3
Thomas Mann once wrote, “Enemies are the necessary concomitant to any robust life.” Tyler Durdan described Generation X as a generation of “slaves in white collars” with “no purpose or place” because “we have no great war.” These are just two ways of re-expressing what some scientist types have come to believe: Much…
Significance Part 2
In criminology there’s this thing called the ”age-crime curve.” In all societies throughout history the tendency to engage in criminal activity increases rapidly in early adoloscence, peaks in early adulthood and then rapidly drops off throughout the 20s and 30s before leveling off in middle age.
But recent research shows this curve doesn’t just apply…
Significance Part 1
Significance. Here’s one theory: In an agricultural society (think Israel in 100 AD or America in the early 1900s) every member of the family is given a significant task. That task is significant because if it’s not accomplished the family suffers. If little Johnny Bob doesn’t milk the cows the family has nothing to drink,…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
