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By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.” — UnknownWe are born into the world unknowing but highly curious. It is our curiosity that enables us to survive our earliest hours and days. At birth we lack the vocabulary to express...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Upheaval. Chaos, confusion. Radical change. The “New World Order.” The “new normal? However we frame it, we are in turbulent times — and are headed for more of the same.Do we need to adjust to it? Or do we make the changes needed to maintain our...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

Two weeks ago in this space, I wrote about the importance of cultural humility. At that time, I knew that my next column would focus on its twinned counterpart, personal humility. Today, I’ll focus on why maintaining an understanding of ourselves in...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“Winning is not everything, it’s the only thing.” — Vince Lombardi (1955)We live in an increasingly ultra-competitive world. In the U.S., our children are trained from an early age not only about determination, discipline, and persistence, but also...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom (1958)The wars that rage around the world are not only to be found elsewhere, beyond our soil and nation. Yes,...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

“It is obvious today that America has defaulted on [its] promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked...

By DANIEL CANTOR YALOWITZ

The act and art of listening is something very few of us were actually taught but somehow we’ve managed to learn, at least on a basic level. A fundamental, intrinsic and universal human behavior and activity, listening is what enables Homo sapiens to...