According to mental health experts, flourishing “…is a state where people experience positive emotions, positive psychological functioning and positive social functioning, most of the time. In more philosophical terms this means access to the pleasant life, the engaged or good life and the meaningful life.” This idea of flourishing pervades […]
Scientist Ray Cronise fasted for 22 days. No food, just water. Yet, when you watch this interview below with him, he doesn’t look starved. He seems cognoscente, capable, and according to the interview, feeling great. How is this possible? Why should you care? The feeling of hunger Up until recently, […]
As unemployment races to highs never seen since the great depression, many workers are struggling to find a way to rejoin the work force. Are you one of them? How can you survive and perhaps thrive in such an environment? The COVID pandemic does not make it easy. Here are […]
First detected in December 2019, almost 4000 people have died from the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 (as of March 12, 2020). While it started in China, it is currently hitting South Korea, Italy, and Iran hard. Spain, France, Germany, and the US all have over 1000 reported cases, cases doubling rough […]
Much of our life is managed by automation. Not of the computer variety, but of the behavioral variety. Automation of our behavior through habits. We need habits to simplify our life, to take everyday things that we do, and eliminate the cognitive effort it takes to do them. This frees […]
Over the past 10 years, I have completed two sets of 5 year goals, once from 2009 and once form 2014. For the first set of goals, I completely nailed it. In the second set, not so much. And yet the last five years have been momentous for me. In […]
I’m at an inflection point. I’m now a mid-career academic. I’ve been awarded tenure, finished my textbook, and now must decide what direction to take my career. Several options lie before me. I can focus on my research with an eye on achieving full professor. I can focus writing more […]
Over the past year, I’ve been struggling to keep my head above water. I have over committed – teaching three university classes, finishing my textbook, homeschooling my son, driving my other two kids around, cooking dinner most nights, staying healthy, assistant coaching two robotics team, participating in the search for […]
I found this amazing quote from Peter Drucker: “For development is always self-development. Nothing could be more absurd than for the enterprise to assume responsibility for the development of a man. No business enterprise rests with the individual, his abilities, his efforts. No business enterprise is competent, let alone obligated, […]
“In 2015, 22 percent of lower-skilled men aged 21–30 had not worked at all during the prior 12 months.” ~ Erik Hurst. That’s nearly a quarter of young men without a college degree do not have, and have not had work in the past 12 months. And it’s getting worse. […]
