If you wish to make a man happy, add not to his riches but take away from his desires. — Epicurus Depending on who you voted for this presidential election, this post may be particularly relevant to you. It builds off another post I wrote four years and a day ago, where I gave some psychological…
“It’s impossible,” said pride. “It’s risky,” said experience. “It’s pointless,” said reason. “Give it a try,” whispered the Heart. — Unknown Last week, we talked about self-affirmation and the ways it can help protect you from threatening situations. In fact, one of our readers even commented how he himself found the technique useful in his…
Be yourself, but always your better self. — Karl Maeser I want you to do a little exercise I do with my class before they receive the grades for their first attempt at writing a research paper where the class average is a C-/D+: From the following six topics, please mentally rank them in order…
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. — Andy Rooney After thinking a lot about the quality of human who may be the next leader of the free world, I decided that this week should take a break from our often reprehensible species and turn to an altogether different–and arguably superior…
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion draws all things else to support and agree with it. — Sir Francis Bacon If humans could answer one question to solve the world’s problems, it would be this: How do you persuade someone to believe something other than what they do? Or so begins…
He who asks a question feels a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question is a fool forever. – Chinese Proverb Growing up, I always hated when teachers said, “There’s no such thing as a stupid question .” Clearly those teachers hadn’t been around for the high school physics class when I…