Political Correctness
I have been thinking about political correctness because I recently watched a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich. I did not know that it was socially acceptable to call someone filthy rich. I would not want to be called that. Once an insulting term...
Forget About Shaking Hands
Shaking hands is out for now and probably forever. That is a stark prediction. If it turns out to be wrong, you can tell me. Shaking hands probably started as a way to signal nonaggression. Putting out a hand and touching another person shows...
Perfectionism Can Be Good or Bad
Do you think of yourself as a perfectionist? If your perfectionism mostly helps you in life, keep going down that path. I call people in this category not perfectionists but hard workers with high goals. When they fail at something, they feel bad for a short...
The Unconscious
When I started my training as a psychologist, I moved in with two students I did not know. One of them told me about an incident the prior year with the other one, “Doug.” Doug went far from home to attend university. Doug, feeling the freedom of being away from...
Judging Others
Almost everyone has heard of the Bible injunction to “judge not that ye may not be judged.” Yet we often judge people. Some of us work as judges. Others of us serve as jurors in trials. I often ask a friend what sentence she would give a person who is in...
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