Upcoming web video chat thingamabob
Here are some details on a live web chat I’m having on Friday. Feel free to send in some fun questions.
Here are some details on a live web chat I’m having on Friday. Feel free to send in some fun questions.
Is it difficult to push yourself each day to go to a boring job? If you are looking for a way out, consider how you got there in the first place. It may be that you chose that boring job over a more interesting one because you didn’t think alternative jobs would pay you enough for…
I have conducted a number of studies on a phenomenon sometimes referred to as emotional adaptation. The basic idea behind this phenomenon is that people often respond with strong emotions to significant changes in their circumstances, but these emotions tend to diminish over time. Moreover, people often fail to anticipate this change in emotions, a failure…
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. (Click here to view comments)
Speaking of time of day, here is George C. Marshall opining on originality: “No one ever had an original idea after 3 o’clock in the afternoon.” A totally false statement, of course. But I don’t think that was his point!
A very disturbing new study was just published, in which physicians viewed a video of a patient with back pain asking for OxyContin. Twenty percent of docs said they would prescribe that med under that circumstance: …Too often, doctors prescribe potentially dangerous medications to patients who shouldn’t be getting them, and what they prescribe is…
In his wonderful 1992 book – Lincoln at Gettysburg – Gary Wills explains that one of the reasons the Gettysburg address was so powerful is that Lincoln did not use any proper names – that’s right any – in the entire address. Consider this portion of the speech: Now we are engaged in a great…