Remember and Savor Peak Experiences
Several years ago I attended a psychology conference in Sydney. Just after the conference ended, I stood a few steps from a female scientific colleague, when a young man approached her and said, “I don’t know how to say this, but I was...
Ending Procrastination
This newspaper article by Becca Thew includes an interview of me. How to stop procrastinating today… rather than next Monday You have an assignment due in a few days. You have had a lot going on and this one just kind of slipped through the cracks. We’ve all been...
First-Time Experiences Can Be Powerful
The first time I drove a car I was 11 years old. One of my older brothers wanted to run in the country to aid his training to play football. He thought it would be boring to run down a dirt road and back, so he invited me to drive his car a mile down the road and wait...
Build Your Confidence
Years ago I played on a volleyball team with a university student who submitted every assignment as late as possible. She lost 20% on every assignment by submitting two weeks late. If she had submitted one day later, she would have received a 0 for the...
What Are Your Signature Words?
I once worked for a nice fellow who used the word “flag” very, very often. He flagged this and that and commented that others had flagged something or other. He used the word to mean many things — I never knew which meaning he was applying in a particular statement....
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