I stood with the balls of my feet digging into the red foam mat. Slowly, I begin bouncing on my toes with arms hanging calmly at my sides. The official yells “shijak,” and my opponent and I begin to fight. The nerves biting at me before every Tae Kwon Do tournament drain away as the clock counts down and I feel out my counterpart. We exchange kicks, he getting the better of me at the beginning of the fight. I...

Metaphors have true power to help us understand how we think. An insightful metaphor that has the potential to do great help or great harm is “life is a game of cards, you have to play the hand you were dealt.” Let’s play a game of Texas Hold’em. When the dealer passes out the cards, some of us get the two-seven off suit and some of us are dealt bullets; the absolute best and worst hands in poker...

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