Part of my Summer Writing Reset has involved blog clean-up and sorting through posts for topics that I need to revisit. The following is updated from 2012. Also see my post on this topic at Psychology Today. Header photo credit: Ned Potter via CC BY 2.0 Who do you think you are? It seems a …
I see pressure and anxiety every week in the college students I teach and am reminded of the poignant and powerful TED Talk by then 19-year-old Kevin Breel, which I have shared here before but is worth sharing again (and again).
Information Bias, or TMI (Too Much Information) I wish I could say that the following screenshot of my own laptop is an anomaly, but it happens more often than it should: Our online world is a wealth of resources and information! Perhaps only those of us who remember being dependent on physical libraries (which I …
We want to write more (or better or more successfully). Being a writer is and perhaps has always been a crucial part of our self-identity. We are as smart as the average bear and competent (enough, anyway). In other words, we know what we want. Therefore, we will make good choices that are in our own …
I was delighted to read a Psychology Today piece by Ethan Gilsdorf yesterday titled “Dungeons & Dragons, 40 Years Old, Makes You A Better Person“: “D&D has always appealed to contradictory minds. On the one hand, the ‘left-brained’ folk –those logical, number-crunching, outcomes and probability-obsessed –love D&D’s charts and dice. But the ‘right-brained’ creative types love …