What am I reading these days? Allow me to share with my fellow lifelong learners. If anyone has common interests, feel free to reach out.

Proverbs (9:10 and 1:7) teaches us that “fear of the Lord” is the beginning of wisdom.

I don’t subscribe to fear-based wisdom.

I’m more inclined to align with the Greeks.

If you are looking for humor, you clicked on the wrong link.

Inequality has risen from 1970 to Trump – and the gap is getting wider.

Such a disparity between the haves and have-nots has costs that undermine democracy.

The best therapist has fur and four legs, and they charge in treats!

The best therapist has fur and four legs, and they charge in treats!

A little poem about tariffs.

Trump is installing what scholars call patrimonialism.

Understanding patrimonialism is the key to defeating it.

·     When my clients try to negotiate their own deals, and I know they don’t know what they are doing, making the likelihood of reaching an agreement slim and none, I say, “This is like watching children playing with explosives.”

·     Sadly, in this case, that is not just a metaphor. It is literally true.

“This aggression will not stand, man!”

Scott Peck, a Harvard psychiatrist of some renown in the 70s, built his edifice of good mental health on truth - no avoidance, confrontation with reality, no matter how distasteful.

Instead of staring at your iPhone and photographing your physical image (without AI filtering), let’s do more of an MRI, designed to give us an image of how you are living your life.

Cognitive impotence is the reverse of social proof.

Social proof means we tend to do something because everyone else is doing it; cognitive impotence describes the tendency to not do something because everyone else is not doing it.

Wise decisions result in a wise life, and a wise life is as good as it gets.

Making wise decisions does not come naturally.

In recent years, we have learned that to make wise decisions, we must understand two concepts: heuristics and cognitive biases.

I often opine and whine, but empirical studies support my arguments in this article.

When

passions bore us

people understand Elizabethan

Warren Buffet files for bankruptcy

What are the benefits of having a self-transcendent purpose in life?

In 64 AD, a conflagration began devouring Rome. Emperor Nero bothered not, some say, with buckets, hoses, or help. Isn’t our version of Rome now burning in so many ways? And aren’t we fiddling?

Anyone who does not understand the importance of “undivided attention” has never had a small child or a hungry cat.

I admit to being a tad ambivalent about the prospect of the solar eclipse of 4/8/24.