Daniel Rhodes
The Chained Elephant: The Limit You Stopped Testing
A story about learned limits, and an animal that could walk away at any moment and has not tried for thirty years.
Omar Haddad
Icarus and the Other Warning: The Half of the Instruction Nobody Repeats
A story about ambition, and the second thing his father told him that has been quietly dropped for two thousand years.
Naomi Okafor
Stone Soup: How to Get People to Give What They Are Hiding
A story about a village that had nothing to spare, and the stranger who got them all to cook dinner together.
Mei Lin
Is That So: The Man Who Did Not Defend Himself
A story about reputation, and a teacher who was accused of something he had not done and did not argue.
Dev Sharma
The Brahmin and the Mongoose: The Cost of Being Certain in One Second
A story about jumping to a conclusion, and a mistake that took a moment to make and could not be taken back.
The Raft: What to Do With a Thing That Saved You
A story about method, and the awkward moment when the thing that carried you across becomes the thing you are carrying.
Dev Sharma
Appointment in Samarra: The Road You Take to Get Away
A story about fate, and a servant who rode all night to escape something he was riding towards.
Omar Haddad
- Character
King Canute and the Tide: The Man Who Was Proving the Opposite
A story about flattery, and what a king did to show his court exactly how small he was.
- Character
The Two Wolves: What You Feed Is What Wins
A story about the fight inside a person, and the uncomfortable question of which side you have quietly been supplying.
- Mind
The Empty Boat: Where Your Anger Actually Comes From
A story about anger, and how much of it turns out to depend on believing that somebody meant it.
- Mind
The Blind Men and the Elephant: On Being Right About Your Part
A story about partial knowledge, and how an honest report of what you touched can leave you completely wrong.
- Mind
The Boiling Frog: Why Slow Disasters Are the Ones We Sit Through
A story about slow change, and why the trouble that arrives gradually is the kind we are worst at noticing.
- Purpose
The Sharpened Axe: Why the Hardest Workers Often Get the Least Done
A story about effort, and why working harder stops working when you never stop to sharpen the tool.
