 By Jim Selman | Bio
Think about the positive attributes of
growing older, and ‘wisdom’ will always appear near the top of the
list. Until recently, I had assumed ‘wisdom’ was a kind of ‘right
knowledge’. Every time someone says the Serenity Prayer, I am reminded
of this attribute again.
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to change the things that I can, and the wisdom to
know the difference.”
I wonder if I do know the difference.[ Read More]
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I
have been talking about ‘completion’ a lot lately. It is basically that
state of being where we can let the past be in the past and not try to
control everything to make the future turn out the way we want it.
Completion is a necessary state if we want live in the present. One of
the things that keeps us from being complete is guilt. Guilt is a waste
of time. It is blaming ourselves for whatever we think we’ve done
wrong. As far as I can tell, it is also a cover-up for not being
responsible for whatever we did that we’re feeling guilty about.[ Read More]
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By Stu WhitleyBioThis is the third in a three-part series.
I
read somewhere that good decision-making—indeed, good relations—
depends upon a virtuous cycle of respect, trust and candour (which
takes some time to establish, but which can easily be interrupted).
Attitude, after all, is everything. Perhaps that last statement needs a
bit of refinement: the ethical
attitude is everything. By that I mean the determination of the answer
to the age-old question: who is right? Was Harold right to express his
annoyance with conduct he perceived as racist and excessive, in coarse
language? Was the police officer right to arrest Harold in his
perceived perception that Harold was instigating a threat to the public
peace? Was the security guard right to expel the children from his shop
and continue to press for their departure from the vicinity? We don’t
have enough facts, a lawyer might argue. In a courtroom, various
perspectives and motives would be put in play, with neither party being
satisfied by the result. Forensic justice cannot answer competing
claims for rightness in a manner satisfying for everyone. But here, I
stand with Harold.[ Read More]
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By Vincent DiBiancaBio
Like many, I’ve heard both sides of the ‘Cooking and Freezing in
Plastic’ debate. A good friend recently sent me an email warning of the
dangers of “microwaving and freezing food in plastic containers”
accompanied with supportive research. Another friend responded by
saying that the ‘authorities’ (including the FDA and Johns Hopkins
University) say that Rubbermaid®, Tupperware®, plastic cookware and
food wrap sold for home use have been thoroughly tested, only tiny
traces of a plasticizer have been found, and even that is not an
endocrine disrupter. This set off a productive dialogue about who to believe about what.[ Read More]
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By Shae HaddenBio
I’m pondering this throw-away comment, something I’ve heard countless times before and never really thought about. What do we really mean when we say someone isn’t ‘acting their age’? In
effect, we’re judging whether their actions are ‘normal’ and
‘acceptable’—as compared to the majority of people of that same
chronological age in our society. But our assessments are neither true,
nor false. They are simply our perspective, our evaluation, of what we
perceive.[ Read More]
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I just came across news of a humdinger of a research report from Georgia Tech about how older people process information differently than younger people depending upon whether they are in a ‘positive’ or a ‘negative’ mood. I have seen some pretty nonsensical conclusions reached by social scientists and statisticians, but this is about a flaky as they come. Granted I haven’t read the research itself, only a description of it which concludes: "So it shows that the young and old are motivated by different goals and, therefore, perceive and process information differently because of the changes in goals across the lifespan,” said Blanchard-Fields.
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 Think about the positive attributes of growing older, and ‘wisdom’
will always appear near the top of the list. Until recently, I had
assumed ‘wisdom’ was a kind of ‘right knowledge’. Every time someone
says the Serenity Prayer, I am reminded of this attribute again.[ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Wisdom in Action
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