by Mayo Oshin | Goal Setting, Leadership, Motivation, Psychology
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister, a 25-year-old medical student, worked his usual morning shift at St. Mary’s Hospital and took an afternoon train from Paddington Station to Oxford in preparation for a one-mile race against Oxford University. For nearly a decade up... by Mayo Oshin | Habits, Leadership, Motivation, Psychology
In 1939, Hitler’s Nazi Germany launched an aerial bombing attack on Warsaw, Poland, that would trigger World War II. Shortly afterwards, the Allies retaliated by dropping bombs across Germany, but the vast majority of bombs failed to hit enemy targets. As Nazi Germany... by Mayo Oshin | Goal Setting, Life Lessons, Motivation
In 2011, Mina Cikara, a social psychologist at Harvard University, recruited 18 hardcore baseball fans who supported either the Red Sox or Yankees—arguably the fiercest rivalry in American sports. 1 Cikara, Mina; Botvinick, Matthew M.; Fiske, Susan T. (2011-03-01).... by Mayo Oshin | Life Lessons, Motivation, Philosophy
In December 1959, Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese army intelligence officer, was officially declared dead. 15 years prior, Onoda had been deployed to the small island of Lubang in the Philippines to prevent enemy attacks from the United States. After a six-month extensive... by Mayo Oshin | Inspirational Stories, Life Lessons, Motivation
As a palliative care-worker, Bronnie Ware had a front row seat to watch the last three to twelve weeks of the lives of terminally ill patients. Over her eight year period caring for the dying, Ware was privy to their darkest moments and last words on their life’s... by Mayo Oshin | Grit, Motivation
Arguably, the greatest athletes in the world reside in the high altitude, forested Mount Hiei, in Kyoto, Japan. Over a seven-year period, the marathon monks of Mount Hiei embark on kaihōgyō—a 1,0000-day deadly marathon challenge. Very few marathon monks have survived...