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Find Your Own "Baseball"
Find Your Own "Baseball"

Clash of the titans: I slide deftly around Catcher Craig Berman’s tag to score. Or, Catcher Craig Berman applies the tag, blocking my attempt to score. Either way, I love this picture.

Baseball’s been a part of my life since I was a little boy. When I was 3 or 4 my grandfather promised to take me to my first baseball game when I was a little older. When we studied electrical circuits in elementary school I built a board listing all the major league. When you touched the correct team and its correct league with conductive wands, a light went on. And the first thing I did when my family moved, when I was 11, was find the local little league.

Today, baseball is more than a game for me.

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Creativity, FunMark RothmanBaseball, Video LinkComment
Is It Real, or Is It CONTEXT?
Is It Real, or Is It CONTEXT?

This is a picture of my parents, Augusta and Louis Rothman, of blessed memory, taken when they were in their 20s.

In my book, Stop Playing Small: An A to Z Guide to Living Your Bigger, Better Life, I write, “Our context transforms how we perceive the reality around us.” Reality is a fact, it is true, it is verifiable. My mother passed away on Monday, November 30, 2015. My father, on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. That is reality. How I feel about my parents’ deaths depends on my context.

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Context, Grief, ParentsMark RothmanStop Playing Small, Video LinkComment