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Tips for Landing a Good Job from my new book, Careers for Dummies

Tips for Choosing a Career: Text version

Career counselors make the process of choosing a career too complicated. In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I try to remedy that by offering this precis of the advice I offer in my new book, Careers for Dummies.

Tips for Choosing a Career

Inflated Job Titles

As kids, we joked that a garbage collector might call himself a sanitary engineer. But we’re no longer joking. My PsychologyToday.com article today, explores the new generation of hype- and obfuscation-filled job titles.

How the Earth Got Conquered in 2078: A look at genetic enhancement

Genetic enhancement is seen by some as a savior, by others as a horror. I offer an  optimistic vision in my PsychologyToday.com article today. 

How the Earth Got Conquered in 2078

In Pursuit FROM Excellence

The Pursuit FROM Excellence:

There could be no more apple-pie value than “excellence.”

Yet, quietly, excellence is being attacked by social’s core mind-molders: the media and the colleges.

I explain how in my PsychologyToday.com article today. 

Why You Should Be a Liberal and Why You Should be a Conservative

Text of "What's Up with Jordan Peterson?" video

Jordan Peterson is the reigning self-help guru. The genesis of his best-selling (a term thrown around but in this case true) book, 12 Rules for Life, was a Quora post in response to the question, “What are the most valuable things everyone should know?” He listed 42 “rules for life.” Sixteen evoked a response in me. 

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I quote the 16 and offer my response. Then I offer my own 6 Contrarian Rules for Life.