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Mimi Alford
On 22 November 1963, at around 12:30 Central Standard Time, Mimi Alford and her husband-to-be, Tony, stopped for gas on 61st Street, off FDR Drive. They went up to his parents’ house in Southport,...
View ArticleThree Things the NEJM Says Make You Live Longer
When you hear about a study that finds life-bestowing benefits from consuming something, you should have a foundation of information/thinking within which to fit it, you should consider who conducted...
View ArticleWhere We Draw the Line on Money
Society has many strictures about money: we shouldn’t use it to bribe judges; we shouldn’t pay for sex or traffic in slaves. Those things are often actually done. But then there are the issues that...
View Article“Kanner Syndrome”: No Way!
In 1943 Leo Kanner, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, wrote what is regarded as the foundation document in the history of autism. (Kanner L.1943). Voices have become loud to name...
View ArticleAre You a MAD Man?
I recently read an article in Elle on-line about WNBA rookie phenom, Brittney Griner. Griner is an outstanding basketball player, and recently came out as lesbian. In the article, author Laurie Abraham...
View ArticleDoes TV watching really hurt vocabulary development?
Television is becoming an increasingly prevalent habit of a child’s daily routine. Not only are children’s television consumption rates rising, the age at which they begin watching television is...
View ArticleRedefining Your Purpose
Irene was sure it would be like this all day long -- overcast and gray, with a persistent drizzle that neither let up nor let loose. Undeterred, she grabbed a hooded coat from the closet before heading...
View ArticleBring Pride to Your Tribe
A leader’s ultimate task is to inspire others to bring all their focus to build a great future for their organization, their own people, and the people they serve. And yet, it is hard—if not...
View ArticleBarbie: Blacklist or Buy This Black Friday?
Next week, hordes of consumers will pack stores in search of mega deals to fulfill the holiday wishes of tiny tots. This year, no single toy has emerged as a “must have.” Instead, Santa has been...
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Braking Bad
On the same day this week, I came across two items that are intricately intertwined: the sentencing of a juvenile sex murderer and recent research on whether certain types of violent kids are...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn From the World Happiness Report 2013
Political and business leaders throughout the world, but particularly in North America, have used economic measures to determine the nature of country’s progress and its people’s well being....
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Are You From My Planet? Why the Gifted May Seem Goofy
In my last article, I addressed the case of gifted individuals who may seem, paradoxically, to be a tad gullible—at least to others who may work with them. The trouble, I attempted to point out, is...
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Murder, Home-grown
Karen Samuels and I have something in common: we know how tricky it is to write about murder in the place where we live – especially if people are still around who remember it.For the past decade,...
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Returning to the "Personality Analyst"
A few years ago I stopped writing blogs for the “Personality Analyst” column for various reasons: I was on the threshold of a new theory that I needed time to develop, I wanted to summarize some of the...
View ArticleMind-Reading
Have you ever been frustrated when someone refused a reasonable request for no apparent reason? Ideally, we could ask for an explanation when this happens to us, but that isn’t always possible. So we...
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Making room for NOTHING
Most of the students we work with have had whats called a "reinforcement profile" made to see what snacks, books, activities, and movement based games they really like, these preferences are often used...
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Co-Inventing Governance for the 21st Century
This blog post is a modified version of a talk I gave at a recent China-US colloquium.The greatest threat to America comes not from another nation, but from inadequacies in its own system of...
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How To Think Like a Psychopath
I recently had the chance to speak with neuroscientist James Fallon, Ph.D. whose book “The Psychopath Inside” came out this month. In the book, Fallon details his discovery that his brain function...
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Understanding Survivors of Suicide Loss
Grief is a universal experience all human beings encounter. Though death inevitably touches our lives, research shows that many people grieve in varying and different ways. From the textures of...
View ArticleIs Picky Eating the Newest Eating Disorder?
Recently a mom called me about her 6-year old son, Ben, who was so picky that he was eating less than 5 different foods. Some days Ben refused to eat at all. Ben had always been a picky eater, his...
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