Psychology Applied to Blood Donations
When you want people to give you their blood, you are wise to use psychology, whether you are the Red Cross or a vampire. While I give a blood or plasma at a donation centre, I often think of the psychological principles applied to keep me coming back. For one, the...
Psychology of Superpowers
When I was a teenager, I wondered what superpower I would most like to have. I debated the merits of becoming invisible at will versus being able to read minds. Becoming invisible at will would be better than being permanently invisible like novelist Ralph Ellison’s...
Capitalism
Nature is red in tooth and claw. So is capitalism. My parents always had one type of small business or another. Running a grocery store in a small town, they watched a huge grocery chain open a store a block away. The chain bought products cheaply in huge quantities....Talking Tough
I have had an urge lately to talk tough. I keep on the tip of my tongue several tough-guy phrases. Here is one: “You talking to me?” I plan to say this with the same verve as Robert De Niro in the movie Taxi Driver. Donald Trump used essentially the same line recently...
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