Wit & Wisdom with Tom Greene

Each of us has a little voice in our heads. That little voice is your intuition and it's trying mightily to keep you from making any more epically stupid decisions. After all, all of your regretful decisions have one common denominator:  you.  Listen in and learn more about the voice in your head and why sometimes it's best not to eat day old sushi. 

I've got good news for you. It's almost over. The incessant ads, the relentless text messaging and the non-stop news coverage of every candidate's latest move.  It's exhausting. So listen in and hear how we got to a point where we think half the country is evil for voting for the other team. And, how to move forward after it's all over. 

According to a recent survey, we've abandoned one of the great American pastimes: entertaining. Up until 1975, 42% of Americans entertained in their home at least once a month. Today it's just 12%. What happened?  Listen to find out. 

The last public execution in the US happened over 90 years ago. Recently The Pentagon announced the live-streaming of the firing squad execution of Nadal Hassan. Later The White House stepped in and stopped the livestream. Now the country is bitterly divided between those who want to watch and those who think watching is barbaric. Listen to find out why good people generations ago decided against inviting the public to watch executions of the condemned, regardless of the severity of the crime. 

A young woman at Cornell University alleges that she was sexually assaulted by seven young men. There is plenty of booze involved and even some prescription Ketamine. A lot of bad decisions were made that night. I'm not interested in adjudicating the case. I'm interested in one thing: where was the one good man?

With constant ringing, pinging and noise in our daily lives we often forget that the greatest opportunity to impart wisdom is to stop talking and start listening. The wisest souls that ever lived knew this but we've often confused wisdom with words. Perhaps we got it backwards. 

The famous quote "Carpe diem" we all translate to seize the day. But the more important part of that passage is "Carpe diem. Trusting as little as possible in tomorrow". See, back when people only lived about as long as a Labrador Retriever, it was important to seize the day. But, today, we seem to have lost sight that tomorrow is far more important than today.  Listen to find out why. 

Have you ever noticed that you never judge what you have against what you used to have?  You always judge what you have verses what everyone else seems to have. It's called the inflation of expectations. That is, our expectations seem to rise in direct correlation to how well everyone else is doing. And, suddenly, our picture perfect life doesn't seem so perfect anymore.