{"id":3497,"date":"2009-01-27T09:21:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=3497"},"modified":"2009-01-27T09:21:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T14:21:47","slug":"outliers-and-the-health-and-wellness-fair-at-muls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2009\/01\/outliers-and-the-health-and-wellness-fair-at-muls\/","title":{"rendered":"Outliers and the Health and Wellness Fair at MULS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I appreciated Professor Dan Blinka’s thoughtful post <\/a>on the book Outliers<\/em>. \u00a0The book begins with a quote from the book of Matthew in the New Testament:\u00a0 “For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance.\u00a0 But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.”\u00a0 Matthew 25:29.\u00a0 Malcolm Gladwell refers to this quote in the title of the first chapter as the “Matthew Effect.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

This passage from Matthew always makes me squirm, because it doesn’t seem to square with another famous passage from the Bible that “the meek shall inherit the earth.”\u00a0 Gladwell’s first chapter similarly made me slightly uncomfortable, because it suggests boldly that such undeniably unfair factors as the month into which a person is born may determine whether they end up as a professional hockey player.\u00a0 Gladwell may well be right, and his insight is in its own way stunning, but it still makes someone who likes to be in control of his or her own destiny feel suddenly out of control.<\/p>\n

I had a brush with the Matthew Effect this December that gave me pause to consider another way of looking at the passage from Matthew 25:29.\u00a0 My sister-in-law Patty invited me to join her for a yoga class at the new Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at the Mayo Clinic.\u00a0 Dan Abraham, the founder of SlimFast, and a Mayo Clinic devotee, donated the facility for Mayo employees to exercise.\u00a0 The Dan Abraham has to be one of the most state-of-the-art exercise facilities in the world.\u00a0 In any event, while I was amazed at the facility itself, it’s what I saw of the people in the building that amazed me even more.\u00a0 People didn’t just trudge in to the yoga class to fulfill their daily exercise regimen, they entered with smiles on their faces.\u00a0 After the class, the participants milled around chatting about how the class inspired them.\u00a0 Many thanked the instructor.\u00a0 Caught up in the positive energy, I was hooked on the Dan Abraham.\u00a0 I begged Patty to bring me back the next morning for a spin class.\u00a0 Before, during, and after the spin class, I watched for the same attitude and behavior that I saw from the participants in the yoga class.\u00a0 I was not disappointed.\u00a0 The spin class participants seemed eager and joyful in taking on each hill and cranking up the resistance on their bikes.\u00a0 After the class, a number of participants introduced themselves to the instructor and thanked him.<\/p>\n

My point in telling this story is that it seemed to me that the employees at the Mayo Clinic, many of whom are arguably outliers in medicine and science, had the right attitude.\u00a0 They approached even a simple task like exercise with “joyful concentration,” to use a phrase that my ASP leader Joan Shepard came up with when I told her this story.\u00a0 I would expect to see this attitude at the Clinic itself, where the employees are “on” at work, but here they were removed from the Clinic.\u00a0 I had a chance to watch them participating in a rather personal moment in a separate facility, where they did not know that an outsider was observing them.\u00a0 It may be that an abundance of good attitude enables certain talented individuals to concentrate better, gain more insights and be more creative, and ultimately distinguish themselves from the rest of an otherwise talented fold.\u00a0 And hence, the Matthew Effect:\u00a0he or she who has, will gain more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This point brings me to the Health and Wellness Fair at the Law School.\u00a0 Lawyers, like doctors (or anyone else), need to cultivate their health at all times to be able to perform at their peak.\u00a0 The Health and Wellness Fair is an excellent way to learn more about healthy mindfulness and physical well being.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Namaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I appreciated Professor Dan Blinka’s thoughtful post on the book Outliers. \u00a0The book begins with a quote from the book of Matthew in the New Testament:\u00a0 “For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance.\u00a0 But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.”\u00a0 Matthew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marquette-law-school","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}