We tend to live our lives “waiting” till we’re ready to take plunges into unknown, uncertain, un-guaranteed territory. We like certainty, we like to be sure, we like to feel secure, we …
We don’t fight our breathing, so why fight our anxiety. You might think I’m suggesting that anxiety is as natural, inevitable and inescapable as breathing. Do you really think I’m suggesting that? …
It’s tempting to test the people in our lives, to see how well they meet our expectations and demands. But it’s a good idea to recognize that (and when) we’re doing it, …
Psychopaths, also known as sociopaths, are usually epic, pathological liars. They are often imperturbable liars. Most of us, when busted for an outright lie, will feel awkward, embarrassed, ashamed, maybe humbled, …
Who was Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas mass murderer? Here’s my tentative hypothesis, offered humbly with no pretensions to being right. Mr. Paddock was a psychopath with an incubating slathering to …
It’s certainly possible to make distinctions between jerks, narcissists and psychopaths (aka sociopaths). But how necessary is it? It’s certainly plausible to posit a continuum somewhere along which we locate jerk …