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Do You Know How to Be Practical? A Self-Assessment Tool

 In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer a self-assessment tool to help you decide if you want to be more practical and, if so, how.

How to be Resilient

We all know that even successful people fail but that they're more likely to rebound quickly.

How do they get unstuck? And more important, how can you do it?  It may help you answer the eight-question self-assessment that is my PsychologyToday.com post today.

Hinda the Hypocrite: A short-short story

In an attempt to avoid the pontification and aridity of the how-to article, in my PsychologyToday.com articles, I've recently been embedding psychological and other how-to-do-life issues in short-short stories.

Two of those have been about evil characters: one about a thief, another about a manipulator. 

Today's offering is about a hypocrite. They're all written in hopes that reading about their tactics will make you less likely to be taken advantage of..

Multiple Intelligence, Higher Education Reform, and Ethics

It’s comforting to think that our intelligence isn’t reducible to a single number. Indeed, especially in education circles, the theory of multiple intelligences is widely embraced. 

In today’s PsychologyToday.com The Eminents interview, I spoke with that theory’s creator, Howard Gardner. We spoke not only about that but about his current work examining U.S. higher education and ethical issues in the professions, including psychology.

The Manipulator: A Short-Short Story with Embedded Life Lessons

In an attempt to avoid the pontification and aridity of the how-to article, On PsychologyToday.com, I've recently been embedding psychological and other how-to-do-life issues in short-short stories.

Today's offering is about a life-long manipulator. Perhaps reading about his tactics will make you less likely to be taken advantage of.

Why We're Throwing a Birthday Party for Our Dog: Life Lessons

I try to ignore my birthdays but my wife and I will be throwing a part for our doggie Einstein's 10th birthday. The reasons embed life lessons that may be relevant to all of us. I explain in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Think You're a Free Thinker? Think Again

I worry that society's mind molders--the schools, colleges, and media--are speaking mainly with one voice. For example, there is little expressed opposition to the idea that we need to be more redistributionist and less meritocratic. 

In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I explain why I'm worried that it is an irreversible trend but that as individuals we can, with effort, still access the full marketplace of benevolently developed ideas, and that it's worth the effort.

Your Most Painful Memories and Learning From Them

Of course, staying mired in your past pains can inhibit you from moving forward. But inventorying them and identifying lessons learned can be well worth it. I offer a way to do that in my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Straight Talk About Relationships: An Interview with Psychology Today Editor-at-Large, Hara Marano

Hara Marano has covered psychological issues for decades, including 25 years as Editor and now Editor-at-Large at Psychology Today.

So she has read and carefully thought about thousands of expert articles on psychology, especially about romantic and familial relationships.

I interviewed her today. She spoke candidly and instructively both about her own relationships and what she’s learned as an editor and writer. I post that interview as my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Gaining Gumption

When I was a cab driver, a passenger told me he was a professor at the Rockefeller University, which has the world’s highest percentage of science Nobel Prize winners. I jokingly said, “I’m not letting you out this cab until you give me a job.” A week later, I went from lowly cab driver to Rockefeller research assistant, working on the first research to prove that biofeedback worked.

As I look back on my life and think about my successful clients and friends, gumption is an underdiscussed key to success.

My PsychologyToday.com article today is Gaining Gumption.