We're discussing finding and/or creating your Self. Number six in the series on SELF: POTENCY AND ACT. (FOR THE EARLIER POSTS IN THE SERIES PLEASE SEE BELOW.) BACK TO POTENCY! (No, not THAT kind of potency! Don't drift on me here!) Well, OK, you COULD call it Viagra for the Self. I … [Read more...]
The Self Part 3: Be Yourself, Everybody else is taken.
September 3, 2016 by
This is Part 3 in a series of articles about the “Self.” ARE YOU YOU? (I MEAN THE REAL YOU AND NOT AN IMPOSTER OF SOME KIND?) Do you even know if you are? Have you thought about it lately? Self-Knowledge’ is crucial to determining who we are and what we want on earth. It doesn’t … [Read more...]
The Self Part 2: Searching for yourself? Flying blind?
September 2, 2016 by
Need a new search party? Try you! When children play Hide and Seek, at least the searchers know who they’re looking for. Do we know who we’re searching for when we’re looking for ourselves? Not usually. Which means we’re flying, or searching, blind Because if we don’t know what we’re looking … [Read more...]
The Self Part 1: Do You Find Yourself or Create it?
September 1, 2016 by
AND WHY BOTHER ANYWAY? We joked the other day about “finding ourselves.” MANY EXPERTS ADVISE US TO “FIND OURSELVES.” But the philosopher Thomas Szasz and the writer George Bernard Shaw both say, “The self is not something one finds: it is something one creates.” What? S#*! Many wise … [Read more...]
LOVE YOURSELF FIRST OR YOU CAN’T LOVE ANYONE ELSE
July 22, 2016 by
LOVE YOURSELF FIRST “I am always in love but love starts with yourself.” Oscar De La Renta You can’t love anybody else unless you love yourself first. Oscar De La Renta, the late famous clothing designer, was interviewed a couple of years ago in the Toronto Star by Jeanne Beker. The photo … [Read more...]
Conquering Post-Holiday Procrastination
February 4, 2016 by
How to conquer student post-holiday procrastination: The Pomodoro Technique Procrastination is the devil! If you made New year's resolutions about avoiding procrastination but aren't following them here are some aids. This piece is by Erin Fortner, J.D., EMT on January 26, 2016 (It … [Read more...]
Selfishness. Always wrong? Or can it be a form of self-preservation?
April 20, 2015 by
Is selfishness always wrong or can it be a form of self-preservation? This is Part 6 in a series of articles about the "Self." Are there good kinds of selfishness? Does it depend on our definition of selfishness? (This is No. 6 in a continuing series of articles about the Self. If you … [Read more...]
Searching for yourself? Flying blind? Need a new search party? Try you.
April 20, 2015 by
SEARCHING FOR YOURSELF? FLYING BLIND? Need a new search party? This is Part 2 in a series of articles about the "Self." When children play Hide and Seek, at least the searchers know who they're looking for. Do we know who we're searching for when we're looking for ourselves? Not … [Read more...]
Free community college for students? Maybe not. Maybe with strings.
January 28, 2015 by
FREE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR STUDENTS? MAYBE NOT. Maybe with strings attached. Further to the Obama idea of providing free education to college students, Carol J. Carter has some excellent points in The Huffington Post. The piece was co-written by Sarah Lyman Kravits and Maureen … [Read more...]
College Dropout Rates in the U.S. are bad
November 25, 2014 by
College Dropout Rates in the U.S. are bad and there is no hope in sight for many. BUT THERE IS FOR YOU Jordan Weissman, writing in Slate gives us an update on America's awful college dropout rates. It's something I've been writing about a lot here, on Dropout to Dean's List. The research is … [Read more...]
