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Category: Commentary

Recognizing the Mentors in My Life

January 14, 2019November 21, 2019 James Bishop, Ph.D.

This January 15th is “Thank Your Mentor Day,” a part of National Mentoring Month. National Mentoring Month was started in 2002 by the Harvard School of Public Health and MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. According to the National Mentoring Month website, Read More …

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Why I Stopped Writing About Bruce Lee

January 18, 2015May 17, 2020 James Bishop, Ph.D.

For those who are unfamiliar with my work on the subject of Bruce Lee, I wrote a number of articles and two books on Bruce Lee in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In April of 2000, I took the Read More …

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Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper – Big Fish in a Little Pond?

September 8, 2014May 2, 2018 James Bishop, Ph.D.

In the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, gifted physicist Sheldon Cooper is the center of a social group composed mainly of academics and intellectuals. This social circle includes his roommate and experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter, aerospace engineer Howard Read More …

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Emptying Your Cup: A Zen Parable for Academics and Professors

June 27, 2014May 2, 2018 James Bishop, Ph.D.

A favorite parable of mine is a traditional Zen koan first translated into English by Nyogen Senzaki, a Rinzai Zen monk, in his 1919 book 101 Zen Stories. The koan is a cautionary parable about personal arrogance and the unwillingness to Read More …

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My Dad

June 16, 2014May 2, 2018 James Bishop, Ph.D.

My dad was always a proud and independent man, so it was extremely difficult for him to adjust to the debilitating paralysis that resulted after brain surgery in 1992. The paralysis affected his hands, making some of the simplest tasks extremely Read More …

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