What the world needs is less self-centeredness and more personal emphasis on gratitude, work ethic, accomplishment, moral standards, character, and helpfulness toward others.
Does White Noise Help You Learn?
How do you promote focus in an environment of distractions?
Specious Reasoning: How to Spot It and Stop It
Today’s agenda-driven social discourse has made speciousness popular.
Specious Reasoning: It Is Everywhere, Often Undetected
The apparent increase of speciousness in today’s agenda-driven social discourse provided a big part of my motivation to write my recent book about truthfulness.
The Literacy Myth
Literacy alone is not the answer. We already have too many under educated college graduates, as has been amply documented in numerous surveys.
Research on What Makes Us Happy
Retirement villages have been around for years, but their popularity may be growing. This is an alternative lifestyle that many elderly are finding to be attractive.
On the Meaning of “Immaterial”
To claim that something is immaterial implies it does not exist. We know from personal experience that consciousness surely exists, and souls may also exist.
12 Ways We Teach Each Other to Hate
Hate tears the fabric of social harmony. It creates resentment and anger that otherwise would not occur. It becomes self-perpetuating.
The More You Know, The More You CAN Know
Prior experience builds models of our environment, and preferentially enables us to interpret new experiences in a manner consistent with these models.
How to Control Your Mind: The Link to Religion and Meditation
Part II: Here are two more ways to take charge of your life.