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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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MEDIA MANIPULATION
The book that took the longest to write was Inside-Out Persuasion.
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GUNS KILL PEOPLE
Here is an idea that gets lots and lots of publicity every time there is a shooting and yet it is an idea that is based on a fundamental confusion between agent and instrument.
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FORGET DEADLINES, THEY ARE DEADLY
Many people think that to get things done, to be productive, to accomplish goals, and to achieve their highest and best, they need deadlines.
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POVERTY CREATES CRIME
In an attempt to fight crime, some have taken to the mistaken idea that the cause of crime is poverty.
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STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE AND OTHER FOOLISH ACTS
Perhaps the most subtle way that people sneak perfectionism into their lives is by giving it different names.
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JUDGING THE PAST BY TODAY Another Bad Idea
Here’s another bad political idea— judge what happened in previous times and ages by the standard and criteria of today.
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THE WISE EXECUTIVE
An analogy. Wise executives are few and far between.
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WE NEED THE “THOUGHT POLICE”
Here’s a bad idea politically.
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EXECUTIVE POWER
To speak of executive control (#54) is also to speak about executive power.
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WE NEED MORE GOVERNMENT
Here’s another bad political idea.
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WHEN THE EXECUTIVE IS FOOLISH
Currently I’m working on wisdom.
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EXECUTIVE CONTROL
One thing that everybody knows about executives is that they are in control.
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THE REFLEXIVE EXECUTIVE
To be the executive of you, of your life, you have to take charge (#52), and to do that you tap into and activate one of the executive functions that is especially designed to…
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BAD IDEA: WE NEED OPEN BORDERS
Among all of the bad ideas that are being floated today, one of the big ones is that we need open borders.
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TAKING EXECUTIVE CONTROL
Built into your brain are multiple executive functions.
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HISTORY IS FOREVER OR IS IT?
How should we think about what someone did in the past?
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ACTUALIZING THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
Given the executive functions in your brain (Neurons #48), you have both the capacity and the potential to be your own best executive making executive decisions about what to…
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