People prefer happiness over unhappiness. Hedonic happiness is an emotion, experienced as pleasure and enjoyment, which may be fleeting. Functional MRI studies have mapped the neural correlates ... Read More about Happiness
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Living in Discipline, Self-Control and Self-Regulation
Through discipline, we put and keep ourselves in good order. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. [attributed to Christian writer Roy L. Smith] Your disciplines today ... Read More about Living in Discipline, Self-Control and Self-Regulation
Forming Intention – Making Commitments
Forming intention and making commitments cuts across the domains of emotion and thinking. Once we act on our commitments, we are in the domain of action. We either live with intention or exist by ... Read More about Forming Intention – Making Commitments
Seeking and Finding Common Ground
Acknowledging the humanity of others leads us onto common ground. Homo sapiens is a social species with a capacity for fellow feeling. However, we are also a species with tribal inclinations, ... Read More about Seeking and Finding Common Ground
Living in Equanimity
Becoming agitated about what has been serves no good purpose. If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, / If you can trust yourself when all men doubt ... Read More about Living in Equanimity
Ego – Selfishness
Justice at its most basic level involves caring about more than the self. Ego is the core and root of injustice. . . . evil is always the assertion of some self-interest without regard to the whole ... Read More about Ego – Selfishness
Championing Civil Rights
Civil rights are a beginning in the struggle toward justice. An overriding social theme during my lifetime (I was born in 1954) has been epic struggle against hypocrisy, and how that played out ... Read More about Championing Civil Rights
Inclusion Regardless of Lifestyles and Opinions
Through our lifestyles and opinions, we express our individuality. Yet we are more than our choices and opinions. Greater knowledge, and a better understanding of the science, history, literature and ... Read More about Inclusion Regardless of Lifestyles and Opinions
Thought
Another stage in development is cognitive thinking. The cerebral cortex develops last, and continues to develop for years after birth. That is why we can do calculus as teenagers but usually not as ... Read More about Thought