Part of solving any problem comes down to two things - understanding the difference between responsibility and fault. Fault is about who to blame. Responsibility, in this instance, existential responsibility - our responsibility to ourselves - is what we do for ourselves after we determine who is at fault.
When I was 20 years old I was taking a wrestling class in college and ended up being thrown to the floor and rupturing a disk which compressed my spinal cord and paralyzed me. I literally could not move my legs. The …

It’s not the size of the bird in the fight. It’s the size of fight in the bird. We assume, wrongly, that the larger, richer, more powerful person, corporation or animal in a fight will win any battle. What we often fail to take into account is the “size of fight” in the smaller opponent.
One woman recently “took on the banking industry,” when she went to YouTube with a video about how outraged she was to have the interest on her account doubled even though she had never missed …