What Are Your Lifetime-Best Decisions?
We think with distaste of bad decisions we made. Hitler decided to invade Poland. I bought an MG Midget. Along with our bad decisions are many good decisions. One of my best decisions was to move to Australia to take an academic position at the University of New...
Can You Tolerate Pain, Hunger, Frustration, Etc.?
Trying to help people increase their frustration tolerance is popular now among psychologists. I could have used more frustration tolerance this past week when I dealt with various technical and other problems as I tried to assign final grades for the term. Trying to...
How Curious Are You?
I have been reading about a man who lived 500 years ago. He had three characteristics that made his life challenging: He was an illegitimate child, he was left-handed, and he was gay. As a young adult he applied for a position with a duke and listed ten...
Gratitude
I am thinking about Thanksgiving in the U.S. For some time Leah Dieterich has been writing a blog (thxthxthx.com) giving thanks to ordinary aspects of life. In a recent posting, she wrote: “Dear Not Drinking, Thanks for being like drinking but with fewer...
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