Marty Nemko's Blog, page 391

Six Steps to Becoming Eminent

Many people would love to be an expert, even preeminent in their field. No easy answers but having been career coach to a number of luminaries, my PsychologyToday.com article today lists six steps to becoming eminent.

Making Trick-or-Treating a Psychological Treat

How to make this year’s trick-or-treating more rewarding for your kids…and you. That's my PsychToday.com article today. HERE is the link.

The Dejobbing of America: How to create jobs and what job seekers can do in the meantime.

My latest Time.com article offers fresh ideas both on what society can do to create jobs and what individuals can do in the meantime.

The Most Important Mental Ability...and how to improve yours

We may think we're a rational species but we're fart from it. In my PsychologyToday.com article, I make that case and then offer a simple way that people and governments--could become better thinkers. HERE is the link.

I'd Love it If You'd Come See "Retard!"

For the past three years, I've been revising and polishing the one-woman show I've co-written, direct, and piano-accompany. It's called "Retard!" because that's what the woman, Jeffrie Givens, was called by students and teachers alike.
I must admit to being proud of it. Earlier versions have gotten a standing ovation and the current version is significantly improved. We're doing a performance of it this Saturday, Nov. 1 at 8 PM at Wisteria Ways, a lovely brown shingle home in the Rockridge area of Oakland. There is a suggested donation of $15 to $20, all of which will go to Jeffrie. For info, reservations, and a one-minute video clip from the show, go to http://www.wisteriaways.org/events.html

Dangerous Personalities

We all deal with people who make us uncomfortable, perhaps exhaust us, even scare us. The just published book, Dangerous Personalities, based on two decades of an FBI profiler talking to and studying victims and perpetrators, alerts us to four categories of such people and how to respond. 
I interview him for my PsychologyToday.com article today.

So You Want a More Solitary Existence: Making a reclusive life work.

In yesterday’s PsychologyToday.com article, I made the case that our perhaps most underconsidered lifestyle is reclusiveness, the largely solitary existence. In response, I received comments and private emails requesting another article about it. 
So in today's PsychologyToday.com article, I offer some thoughts on how one might make a reclusive life work.

The Recluse Option: Why the solitary lifestyle merits more consideration.

Most people wouldn’t dream of becoming a recluse. After all, we’re said to be social animals, not to mention sexual ones. 

Yet the freedoms afforded by the solitary lifestyle are many—and underconsidered, hence it's the topic of my PsychologyToday.com article today.

The First Date: Thoughts on how to do a first date well.

In the first installment in this is series, I described how I helped my client develop her plan for meeting Mr. Right. In the second installment, I offered advice on how you might handle a first meeting—I used the example of  a chance encounter in a bookstore.  
HERE is the link.

So You Met Someone You Might Want to Date. Now What?

In a recent PsychologyToday.com article, I described how I helped a client develop a plan for meeting Mr. Right.


A reader asked, “So you’ve met him. Now what?”

My PsychologyToday.com article today offers some ideas on what to do when you've met someone you might want to date.HERE is the link.