Many tasks will demand to be done again. “Again” can be difficult, though, possibly because knowing a task won’t be completed “once and for all” can make the task feel like more of an imposition. It’s as if the task of doing the laundry today takes on an additional weight from all the future times […]
It seems no one wants to practice “problem solving.” Because of the ways our minds work, people are usually pleased to be generating ideas and crossing things off lists as “solved,” but these activities might not be the ones that require practice. Generating an idea, coming up with what should be an obvious approach… When we […]
Here is a favorite quotation of mine, which I first came across fifteen years ago: “When one happens on a book of this kind, he is well advised to throw it away.” – Shu-an What inspired these words? Over a period of years, I occasionally looked to see if I could find the source of the quotation, […]