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Not by Accident

Not by Accident

De: Thomas H Wicke
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 Becoming and raising good people does not happen by accident. Nothing that is worthwhile, valuable or magnificent happens by default -not a marriage, not a career, not children who grow into happy, kind and accomplished adults. Excellence is not accidental.

This podcast is a tool for parents to use as they purposefully introduce their children to high ideals, virtues, and concepts that are essential to becoming a good person. We do this in short 3-5 minute podcasts (borrowing from experiences in history, stories shared by others, scenarios and situations) with the intent to foster conversation between parents and children.

No one wants to be lectured or moralized -especially children and teens... especially by their parents. So having some outside voices on matters that will help shape children is invaluable. This of this podcast as a contemporary version of Aesops Fables. Great for parents, teachers, youth leaders or anyone who is looking for inspiring content when driving to school, a soccer game, to the grocery store or beginning your day. Enjoy!

Creator and Host: Dr. Thomas Wicke -a social psychologist who is president of a healthcare college in Denver, Colorado. He is an author, published academic, teacher and speaker on creating effective culture in the workplace through intentional leadership. He consulted with the Department of Homeland Security on community impact of disaster. He is husband for 30+ years to a public school teacher and parent of three children.Copyright Thomas Wicke Crianza y Familias Desarrollo Personal Literatura y Ficción Relaciones Éxito Personal
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  • Not by Accident: Changing a Losing Culture -Episode24

    Not by Accident: Changing a Losing Culture -Episode24
    Jun 8 2025
    People like to win and to be associated with winning teams or efforts. But the truth of life is that we will often fall short individually and as part of a team. What happens when that team can't seem to come out on top? What happens when one loss becomes two, then ten then fifty?

    This is not uncommone either for the girls under 10 youth soccer team I coached or for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. The point is, it can (and as I suggest, will) happen to many of us. One important think to keep in mind is that there is a HUGE difference between losing and being a loser. Our wins or losses don't need to become a reflection on us. They definitley do not need to define us. There are great things to be learned in the losses we encounter in life. Loss is actually what makes us stronger, smarter and more committed to winning. When trapped in a cycle of loss sometimes it takes a coach who sees in us what we may have forgotten. Sometimes an individual player or participant can spark a change that impacts the entire organization. YOU can be that spark.

    Episode story taken from Joan W. Young's BYU Devotional speech, "Seeing as Far as Forever", June 24, 2003.
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    11 m
  • Not by Accident: The Dark Side of Education -Episode23

    Not by Accident: The Dark Side of Education -Episode23
    Apr 3 2025
    Education is one of the top 5 factors that not only transforms an individual's life (including their spouse, children and generations to come) but also to improve the world and mankind's condition. As access to learning (education being the formal system to facilitate learning... at least that is the objective) swept across society like a wave with the invention of the printing press and other monumental changes that took place in the time period we generally know as "the enlightenment", life on earth began to change. For the previous five or ten thousand years life was lived within 20 miles of your birtthplace; locomotion remained walking, running or domesticated animals and simple carts; technology was generally static; daily life consisted of subsistence, illness and death (of infants, children and what are now minor diseases). Education changed all this. I encourage education. I run a college. I have no hesitation championing the virtues of education. Even with all this, education has a dark side. This is largely because human nature has a dark side. Education is little more than a gun, knife or car. All are tremendously valuable but can be wielded to great harm, opppression and brutality. Too often educated people think they are better than the less educated. They presume to have some moral superiority over those without letters (MD, Ph.D., MA, BS, Esq.) behind their names. Thy trade education for arrogance among many other things. This episode explores this tragic and dangerous propensity. Education and learning should always lead to humility and compassion, especially for people of character..But like so many things, this does not happen by accident.
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  • Not by Accident: Leadership -Episode22

    Not by Accident: Leadership -Episode22
    Mar 1 2025
    What is leadership and being a leader? While it involves many things -knowledge, judgement, persistence, discipline, motivating others, humiliy- it is fundamentally about serving those you lead and being willing to do the hard work alongside the lowliest follower. In fact, as a side note, one of the best ways to prepare to be a great leader is to be a great follower. In so many aspects of life, experiencing the opposite informs and qualfies us. Those who endure sadness and disappointment really comprehend joy and achievement. Those who are once lonely become the best and most loyal friends. The most successful usually expereicned great failure. The best bosses are those who were at one time a regular employee and worked their way to the top from position to position. So it is that great leaders spent much time perfecting themselves as a follower -learning the good and the bad from those who led them.

    Leadership is not in a title like manager, captain, vice-president, boss, oldest child; leadership is in behavior. You don't need a title to lead, in fact you don't need your peer group or society to recognize you as a leader. You just need to get your hands dirty doing the hard work, mix that with active concern for others (meaning actually setting your wants and comforts second to the needs of others) and you are well on your way to being a leader. It may not happen right away and you may not have a title commonly associated with leaders, but true leaders don't need, in fact they don't care about a title. They care about others. This episode provides a couple examples of famous leaders and their behavior.
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