Advanced Life Skills

Yesterday I wrote about fathers and would be fathers, who might be suffering the blues while others are celebrating Father’s Day.  Today I want to talk about the children who may have mixed emotions about this celebration.
As much as we don’t like to talk about this type of thing, it’s important to acknowledge that not [...]

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This is the third post in as many days dealing with the paradigms of pain and pleasure.  If it seems like I am starting in the middle of the story please go back and read the posts for the last two days.

 
We would all like to think that we make up our own minds as [...]

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There are a couple of things that I’d like to clarify regarding our emotional desire to seek pleasure and avoid pain.  It’s not the actual pain or pleasure that drives us but our estimate of it.  For example, our desire to avoid pain is really our fear of taking any action that we feel may [...]

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Almost all of the choices we make in our daily life are motivated by one of two powerful forces.  The most powerful of these forces is the desire to avoid pain.  The second is, the desire for pleasure.
Everything that we want to do is something we have emotionally linked to pleasure.  Everything we try to [...]

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This weekend I was reading an engrossing post on Adam Alexander’s blog.  The title of this post is Subliminal Subjective Expectations and I found it fascinating.  Adam talked a lot about paradigms and it donned on me that perhaps some of our readers may not completely understand the meaning of this term.
The American Heritage Dictionary [...]

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