Josh Benner

Tag: responsibility

  • One piece of advice for my students: responsibility

    You need to start taking responsibility of your life, your decisions, and your faith now. All of those things matter. All of those are things where you have a lot of control now. Yes, you have parents, you have teachers, you have other adults around you who are teaching you.

  • The great enemy of success: excuses

    It’s common for people to blame officials for their team losing a game. It’s less common for people to blame officials for losing a game by 29 points. But I found myself in a conversation on Facebook recently with a person who was arguing that officiating cost Ohio State that game. I say this not…

  • Will Smith, Jordan Peterson and our responsibility in dealing with adversity

    Will Smith was imparting some wisdom on Instagram yesterday. In talking about fault and responsibility, the actor/rapper said, “It don’t matter who’s fault it is that something is broken if it’s your responsibility to fix it.”