Have you forgot about humility?
Did you know that humility is a virtue? Are you asking what is a virtue? Aristotle defined moral virtue as a disposition to behave in the right manner. He went on to say that virtue was a mean between extremes …
Author: Tim Gibney
Have we become Pavlov’s dogs?
Have you been trained to act on some behaviors automatically? Let me explain. In the early in the history of the science in behaviorism, a famous behaviorist named Ivan Pavlov showed that he could get a dog to salivate through …
What about the neglected children?
What about how neglected children end up as adults? Recently I listened to a number of people speaking about a child as if the life that child had no value. The comments about the neglected child alarmed me; think about …
Have we become a victimized society?
Have we forgot that we have freedom of choice in our actions and our thoughts? If you haven’t noticed it – we are deeply entrenched in what is called ‘identity politics’. According to Google, identity politics is ‘a tendency for …
Have you become a cognitive miser?
Are you looking for simpler or effort-less ways to solve problems? If you said ‘yes’ you are not alone. This is because as one article I read stated we’ve become ‘lazy thinkers’. Now that is a sad commentary on our …
Are we really in complete control?
If we aren’t in control we must be victims, aren’t we? At least this is what some organizations are purporting. The company is called Nxivm (pronounced Nexium) and the companies founder is promoting that we are all in control, that …
What impulses are tying you down?
We all have impulses, and many of these impulses can become compulsions and addictions, don’t they? Wouldn’t it be great to become a master of your impulses? Whether your impulse is to eat, to shop, to drink, take drugs or …
Do you have a compelling why?
In other words; do you know for what purpose you are on Earth? I believe it is an absolute necessity to know your why? I state that because if you don’t know – you don’t have much to live for, …
Is free speech important?
Doesn’t it make sense to know where people stand? Let me give you an example of a story I read recently. It was said that a number of years ago Robert Zimmer (an American mathematician and academic administrator, who is …
Do your words reflect your mood?
Do your words express your true emotion? Over the past couple of months, I’ve read some headlines that confused me and I don’t feel were appropriate. The first headline was ‘Sir Elton John in ‘shock’ after mother dies’. To start …