There is an informative book I read: Incognito: the secret lives of the brain by David Eagleman which I recommend to anyone who is interested in how our brains function. Here are few excerpts I found interesting. The brain is an amazing organ. The brain is three pounds of the most complex material we have discovered in the universe. This is the mission control center that drives the whole operation. Your brain is made up of cells called neurons – hundreds of…
This is my explanation (or excuse) as to why I am late posting ideas in this blog. On June 13th I spoke at the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Convention about trial work. My friend, Carl Bettinger spoke on storytelling and story structure which was very helpful. He’s written a book which outlines this well. One point he made was setting the scene fully in opening for the story is important On June 28th I spoke in Sun Valley at the Idaho Trial…
On Sunday I left Gig Harbor for Wyoming about 4:15 AM to make the flight from Seattle to Salt Lake and then transfer to another plane for the flight to Jackson Hole. In Jackson the weather was beautiful, in the mid 80’s and the Teton’s still had snow. After collecting my bag I headed out in the rental SUV for the ranch. As always, there was construction and rough road along with the slow moving cars pulling trailers, but I made it to…