Neuro-Semantics
DISTINGUISHING REASONS FROM EXCUSES
It is so easy to become confused whenever two things that should be separated are fused together into one thing.
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DISTINGUISHING RESPONSIBILITY FOR / RESPONSIBILITY TO
Here is a distinction that most people do not know and do not make and because they don’t, it creates tremendous mental and emotional distress in their lives.
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DISTINGUISHING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND EGO-STRENGTH
After the last post, another question was brought to my attention, “What’s the difference between self-confidence and ego-strength?”
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DISTINGUISHING SELF-CONFIDENCE AND SELF-EFFICACY
This distinction comes by way of Mauritius where Bruneau Woomed asked if I’d write about it.
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DISTINGUISHING SELF-ESTEEM AND SELF-CONFIDENCE
To think with clarity and precision is to make critical distinctions—distinctions that provide essential maps if we’re to experience well-being and sanity.
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DISTINCTIONS: FOR INTELLIGENCE AND CLARITY
Many years ago I learned an especially important principle, a principle that provided an unique insight, which in turn changed my life.
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MORE PROBLEM WITH FACTS
With this article, I am concluding this series on Critical Thinking about Facts.
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THE PROBLEM WITH FACTS
In this series on Critical Thinking about Facts, we have seen that there are lots of problems with facts.
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THE PROBLEM WITH FACTS
So, we have the problem of out-of-context “facts.”
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FACTS AND VALUES
A day came in Maslow’s life when he made a big semantic leap.
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DISTINGUISHING FACTS AND OPINIONS
There are many different kinds of statements.
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IT’S ALL INSIDE–OUT
If there’s anything really unique to the Neuro-Semantics approach, it is that we train, coach, consult, parent, do therapy, and live our lives inside–out.
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FACTS CAN TELL YOU WHAT TO DO The Transition from Is to Ought
First, the is. What exists—where, when, and in what way.
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THE FEAR PANDEMIC WORSENS
It was reported this week that there’s a new variant, the omicron.
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REASONING ABOUT FACTS
When you reason, you reason using facts and about facts.
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WHEN THE MEDIA DOESN’T CHECK THE FACTS
In this deep dive into facts, what they are, how to identify a true fact from a false one, how to establish factual evidence, there has been playing out on the media in the past…
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COURAGEOUS ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND FEARFUL OF PUBLIC SPEAKING
After General Ulysses S.
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THERE ARE FACTS AND THERE ARE META-FACTS
If you have been following these articles on facts you know that not all facts are the same.
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EVEN FACTS NEED EXPLAINING
Once you have a health skepticism about “the facts” that you are regularly fed by the media, you can prepare yourself to think through those facts to determine their validity…
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DEEPER CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT FACTS
“Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.”
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CRITICAL THINKING ABOUT FACTS
After writing about Media Ethics (#69) last week and writing about “facts,” I decided that I would do some critical thinking about facts.
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QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MEDIA’S ETHICS
More than 25 years ago, Erich Fromm, a psychoanalyst and philosopher of Humanistic Psychology wrote several books about social problems.
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WHAT’S UP WITH PROTESTING MANDATES?
Over the past weekend (Oct.
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WHY SELF-HELP BOOKS DON’T HELP
That was the question Geraldine asked.
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