I am raising my children to be critical thinkers. This is actually more difficult than it sounds, because indoctrination is easier than education. Telling a child to look in the dictionary when they ask how to spell a word is easy. Telling a child to brainstorm pros and cons of a decision, then assign value and weight to them, less so. ( Read more... )

I don't recall acute bouts of sleeplessness until around 2006. Looking back, a lot was taking place which directly conflicted with my worldview. Not that I was consciously working things out - many times I was not; it was subconscious which somehow differs from my unconscious processing insofar as it presumably required conscious components as ( Read more... )

I've been under the impression for many years that personal growth required a variety of experiences. I was able to easily explain away those who grew and matured without a plethora of experiences as unique to their cognitive ability, but have recently been stymied by those who have had many experiences without seemingly changing at all. An ( Read more... )

In my search for symmetry, I struggle to stay on the middle path between two extremes. This is a challenge because my nature is to bolt for the other side of the playground seesaw in order to more quickly gain equilibrium rather than to still myself in the center and await it to come naturally. As a patient man I find that particular waiting ( Read more... )

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