Thought for the day with Dr K

I was a patrol leader in Boy Scouts; as usual it just happened without me doing anything except be me (that still is mind boggling to me BTW). Anyway our patrol -me and 5 other guys my age, my friends-are going to a Jamboree (a gathering of scout troops from the eastern south Dakota area) and each patrol is expected to deliver a skit, to be judged by all the other scouts at the event-several hundred kids and adults. As we are brainstorming our skit, it hits me. We will act out “the night before Christmas and I will narrate” . Instant agreement from the patrol members and the guys start acting out the various characters in the story. Total alignment and incredible improvisation by the guys and all I did was drop the idea and read the story from a Christmas book. So we go do our performance at the Jamboree in front of a big campfire and the audience starts laughing immediately!! and the judgment at the end from the hundreds of Scouts and adults? a big “oh boy” shout from hundreds of peo...

It's Easter morning, and in addition to the obvious meaning of the events of 2000 years ago documented in the Gospels, and the first level interpretation of the spiritual meaning of those events, my prayer time this morning revealed another level in the fractal of Easter and the Good Friday events. First, the big take away. There are no coincidences in a Created fractal universe, only layers of meaning to be discovered.  The events surrounding Palm Sunday, the last supper, the betrayal, Gethsemane, the judgment, the crucifixion, the tearing open of the curtain in the Temple to reveal the Holy of Holies, the resurrection...all fulfilments of prophecies hundreds of years old made by people unaware of the others, separated by both time and distance yet coalescing from seeming chaos into the ordered events of Passion Week in a way only an ordered, fractal, complex, Created universe could produce.  Each event of that week had a meaning beyond the obvious concrete real time happenin...

The past few weeks have been very revealing as I have been interacting with a new group of people online and in person. The consensus opinion of me that's new: I am a mid 50s looking and acting extraverted guy, attractive, and brillant, curious, and tenacious. My writing talent was recognized and praised, not a surprise but a welcome confirmation of my self concept.  My time in South Dakota and in North Dallas as a guest in other people's homes and extended solitude along with very observant SM posts by others have opened my eyes to my own self delusion. And it made me aware of how I have allowed myself to be surrounded by people who couldn't and/or didn't want to see the real me. At 73, this is both a welcome awakening and a source of grief for time lost. But I fight forward, look forward, and live in the present, not the past. Another revelation. I am a strange attractor, In the chaotic system sense, at least.  As I have been writing about the structure of fractal lea...

 Creator/Intelligent Design The universe began when the Creator said "let there be light". Recently completed research investigating the invisible quantum math and physics of cosmology underlying all the visible and classical physics of the natural world concluded that without an external "observer" the universe could not exist. There is NO evidence that something (like the universe) can emerge from nothing. None. The universe was created by a Creator. Any failure to recognize the Creator as an eternal Supreme Spirit is evidence of a narrow view of science tied to a 500 year old conflict launched at the trial of Gallileo.  The Universe is the result of an incredibly complex and finely tuned design from the gravitational constant to the structure of DNA. This design makes the universe and everything in it discoverable and describable through the language of math. The Universe is Quantum Traditional physics hit an experimental quantum wall with the introduction of the...

 I am a liar.  That's hard for me to admit and frankly these lies are old, very old, and I was yesterday years old when I realized that I had been lying for a long time...to myself. Lie Number 1 "Me do myself". This lie began when I was just learning to walk and talk and my brother was a newborn in NICU as a preemie. My parents were spending a lot of time at the hospital and I was being cared for by a kind loving woman name Joyce Hilden, who was a friend of my mom's and a neighbor. As a 26 month old boy in the middle of a developmental stage called "rapprochement" (Jean Piaget's term) which normally involves a child moving toward independence from mom  by taking a longer and longer stretches away from her and then running back to mom for a hug or a reassuring message.  My mom was nowhere to be found, and I adopted the hyper-independence that abandoned children sometimes do- "Me do myself".  That "cute" expression of self reliance, as ...

"The universe isn't random. Leadership isn't either. It's time we stopped pretending otherwise." Dr Kevin Karlson --- P.S. The Most Dangerous Question The most dangerous question in any conference isn't the one asked from the audience. The most dangerous question is not the one asked of   speakers. They've all said the right things. They've inspired your audience with stories of grit, resilience, and transformational leadership. Your feedback scores were solid. Everyone clapped. But what if they were all teaching the same unquestioned belief system—a kind of secular cult disguised as corporate wisdom? This isn't hyperbole. It's a question worth asking when 95% of leadership speakers repeat the same narratives, cite the same studies, and offer solutions built on foundations that—when examined closely—rest on shaky scientific and philosophical ground. The Cult of Certainty Here's what most leadership keynotes have in common: They treat evolut...