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February 2022 offers not just one but two days full of twos: 2-2-22 and 2-22-22. I think the preponderance of twos in 2022 is definitely worth celebrating, so this is the first of two columns paying tribute to number two, the smallest and only even prime number.

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Dear Reader, About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”: “Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outsid...