Month: January 2024

Forty years ago, now retired professor of sociology Daniel Chambliss performed a field study in which he observed an elite swim team to figure out what it was that led to excellence in any endeavor. As Chambliss shared in a paper entitled “The Mundanity of Excellence,” the secret he discovered is that there really is […]

Once or twice a year, I’ve got to mount something heavy on my walls. Could be a heavy picture frame, a coat hook, or some shelves. For really heavy items, you want the added security of fastening them with a screw to the wooden studs behind the wall.  But sometimes the studs aren’t where you […]