“It took some good calm thinking in order to get myself to calm down and stop throwing myself against the boulder.”  –Aron Ralston, mountain climber and author

Yesterday Thom came across an interesting article on Huffington Post about the lack of common sense in the world today.  The article by Dr. Jim Taylor said, “common sense is neither common, nor sense. There’s not a whole lot of sound judgment going on these days… so it’s not common.”  We both agreed with his suggestions on how to bring more open and rigorous thinking to our decisions, but there was something else missing.  Maybe that final ingredient to all common sense should be some “calmNsense.” [Read more…]