A belief is your brain’s way of making sense of this complex world and navigating it. So, if you believe in something strongly, and if you truly believe it, it’s true for you. The factual accuracy of your beliefs is of far less importance than you might expect. Evidently, what you believe is true is…
The red herring logical fallacy is a common error in how we think and communicate with others. This is when we start with the intention of pursuing one topic, but get distracted or misled down a different path. This can easily happen as our brains are pretty good at bouncing from thought to thought and…
We live in a time when we believe anything is possible in our lives. You can have anything you want. Become anything you want. Your parents encouraged you to chase your dreams, reach for the stars and ‘never settle’. Never settle in your career, relationships, leisure, finance or any other part of your life. All…
I suppose I have always been goal oriented, recognizing as a young man that the best stuff in life was unlikely to simply fall in my lap. If I wanted something good to happen, I would have to dream it up and make it so. Over the years, I have grown less ambitious about what…
This article is going to be a character traits list and a companion post to ‘What Is Character‘, a discussion about the qualities, values and beliefs of men. I value character in myself and others and appreciate who I am as a person and the values that I choose to live by. Making decisions that…
The term “street smart” was coined by author James T. Farrell who used it as part of his book The Young Manhood Of Studs Lonigan published in 1932. In the novel he described a character named Studs Lonigan whose father had taught him all the skills necessary to survive in Chicago during Prohibition era America….
What Are the Raw Materials of a Life Well Lived One body, one mind a limited supply of time, money and energy on an open playing field with only a few rules. You have won the intergalactic lottery, and you have been given life on this beautiful planet with all these nice people. Matter that…
This isn’t real. Nice Guys vs. Bad Boys isn’t based on the work of Jung or Maslow or on any research from Cambridge and Princeton. This one has been around longer than I have and James Dean (Rebel Without A Cause) was the example of the Bad Boy, so I speculate it is from the…
