Points to Ponder (100 words or less)

The web seems to be flooded lately with articles titled "(# of) Things Never To Say To (someone of a particular profession/situation in life)." It seems there are two lessons we need to learn: 1) Choose your words carefully. Our words can hurt others, especially when we're careless with them. 2) Start with the assumption…

"Punting on feedback makes the (inevitable) truth that much harder to take." (12) ~Kaja Perina

To a greater or lesser degree, all people suffer from inadequacies of their flexible response systems. Much of the work of psychotherapy consists of attempting to help our patients allow or make their response systems become more flexible. Peck, M. Scott

We have to be willing to be afraid; to face our fear—often our deepest fears in order to actually accomplish almost anything meaningful in life. No matter what we want to accomplish, we have to be willing to move beyond comfort to fear. (44)

It's not facebook, twitter, or any other "thing" that is wrong with our society. If someone is a bully on facebook, then he's probably a bully in real life. If someone is narcissistic on Twitter, she’s probably the same way in real life.  Tools don’t make us anything, they simply reveal what is there. That’s…