Creativity

Sloptimism is blind faith optimism you embrace based on some vague ideological platitude you hold proudly but unthinkingly, for the comfort it provides. There are three particularly virulent strains of it going around. Inoculate yourself against them: Things will work out best if you always be here now, always believe without clinging or always believe in chang Read More

How free are you to think rationally? It depends a little on your intelligence and creative bravery, but mostly on the weight you bear to think in ways that'll get you through the day. The more load you bear, the more your beliefs have to serve as load-bearing walls. Holding up your life, they become inflexible in ways you might not notice. Here's a test for noticing. Read More

Do you have the space, and the courage, to go your own, unique and unexpected way? Read More

Are you addicted (if not clinically) to playing Scrabble and such word games? Games can get you into a flow state where time stops. Prepare by learning some fun words... Read More

Knowing your dominant motivational focus - promotion or prevention - you can now evaluate how well-suited you are motivationally to different kinds of careers, or different positions in your organization. Read More

Writer’s block is another way of saying that the author prefers the ideal work still locked in the imagination than what they see coming from their keyboard. It is just one case of the more general malady of having great ambitions stand in the way of concrete achievements. Fortunately both can be cured. Read More

Some films are entertaining. Other films are entertaining AND have something valuable to say about important psychological processes. "A Place Beyond the Pines" is the rare sort of film to fall in the latter category.... Read More

Lev Vygotsky's psychology is a corrective to "a one-side view of the human personality." Read More

An old man worries about how his granddaughter will manage when he is no longer around. Read More