A hedgehog & a fox? You be the judge!

Ever heard of the parable of the hedgehog and the fox?  These terms gained notice after a philosopher named Isaiah Berlin used them in a popular essay back in the mid-1900s.  Berlin used the parable to analyze the worldviews and history of Tolstoy in his classic manuscript, War & Peace.  And while I haven’t read War & Peace in many years, or the essay by Berlin, I did read a more recent book entitled, Good To Great by Jim Collins.   Collins uses the allegory as a way to define how to be a leader and run a successful business.   Even more recently, I came across the two terms in the book Thinking Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman.  Kahneman uses them to define differing ways to think and predict coming events.   But what exactly is a hedgehog, and how does it differ from the fox?  Even more importantly, what does it have to do with your life and can it help you live SMART 365? [Read more…]