Any moral system worthy of the name must include acceptance of responsibility for the consequences of one’s actions. Yet merely admitting fault to oneself is insufficient. A wrong one has done must be righted through positive moral corrective action. …

Get a grip. Most of your feelings are idiotic. “It’s not my fault!” he said angrily. It was his fault. It was completely his fault, and everyone else knew it. But he had a feeling, a strong feeling, that it wasn’t. …

In less than an hour you could transform yourself, and transform your life. In a single hour, you could transform your life, by transforming yourself. At any moment, any moment at all, you could choose to allow important insight after important insight to flow into and transform you with the…

Semaphores are insufficient There has been much discussion in recent days of the new social phenomenon of “virtue signaling,” that strange, offensive and unprecedented behavior in which a person makes the choice to actually express an opinion as to what they consider bad behavior, as well as good behavior. Clearly…

The answer is clear and unequivocal. In the conventional media, on social media, on talk shows, in large global conferences, in governments all over the world, there is massive and extended and detailed discussion of a vast range of serious issues. …

Most people think they are good at conversation. Most people are not good at conversation. Nearly everyone could be better at conversation. This article is an extension of the previous article Three Terrible Mistakes in Conversation. Several years ago, I began writing a book about conversation: patterns in conversation, habits…

Most people think they are good at conversation. Most people are not good at conversation. Nearly everyone could be better at conversation. Several years ago, I began writing a book about conversation: patterns in conversation, habits in conversation, motivations in conversation, the entire psychology of conversation. Having gotten halfway through…

Accidents of birth are nothing to be proud of. Assumptions are always dangerous, but implicit assumptions are even more dangerous. One of the most prevalent implicit assumptions in current American society is that identification–with a racial or ethnic group, with a gender, with a sexual orientation, with a political outlook…

A Proposed Rate Schedule We’ve all been there. Someone starts talking, and you realize that what they are saying they have already told you, perhaps many times before. What should you do? Tell them politely you’ve already heard it? Listen without protest, pretending you haven’t? …