What does an angry adult have in common with a teething baby? Both need something to chew on. Angry people imagine they get angry in response to their life experience. People disappoint, life takes unexpected turns. Suffering happens, and an angry person reacts, telling himself/herself that everything would be okay if only unpleasant or unfair things […]
Top 10 TV Tropes
Sometimes TV reflects reality. Sometimes it doesn’t. As a viewer inevitably being “programmed” by your favorite TV shows, it’s important to know the difference. Here are a few things that happen in TV-World that don’t usually happen in real life. You’re asked to give a eulogy for someone you barely knew. You pretend to be […]
Who Wins the Power Struggle?
Most close relationships are sabotaged to one degree or another by power struggles. This is especially true when it comes to family and romantic partners. A power struggle is focused on winning–even when “winning” requires self-defeating behaviors. You prefer Tex-Mex food, your partner prefers Italian. But the two of you rarely go out for Tex-Mex, because […]
Is Email Really Worth It?
Email represents a major step forward in human communication, and has made all of our lives much more convenient and efficient. Right? Twenty years or so ago when email started to take over the world, it seemed to promise a new era of time-saving correspondence. If you wanted to communicate with someone on the other side of […]
How Life Experience is Your Fruit
“You will know a tree by its fruit” Jesus said that — but what does it mean? Think of a tree as a biological computer. Sunlight and rain are its main inputs. Over time, the tree processes these inputs through its roots, cells and leaves. Eventually, a fruit is outputted. You recognize a healthy apple tree because […]
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