Fred’s Genuinely Care, Do You?
“That means your hard drive is failing,” said the Apple tech rep on the phone. “Do you have a backup hard drive you can connect?” Hearing that my MacBook hard drive failed, when I just started a week of training in New York, nearly sent me into...Everyone knows Fred
Until I read Mark Sanborn’s book “The Fred Factor,” I used to call this the Professionalism Assignment with my aviation job targeting students. I guess now I can change that name to the Fred Assignment. We all know Fred. Fred is the guy or girl who...Diversity is the way we make good decisions
How we make decisions is an argument between our rational and emotional brains. We should always at least entertain competing hypothesis (Lehrer 247) and continually remind ourselves of what we don’t know (Lehrer 247). General and former Secretary of State Colin...Let go of your conscious self and act on instinct
Have you ever had that situation in which you struggled with a problem and when you thought of the answer it was so obvious that you wondered why it took you so long? That’s essentially because your mind has been spending its time coming up with numerous,...Why you should carry cash
If our dopamine is supposed to help us make good decisions, why do we continue to make bad decisions, like getting into debt, thinking irrationally, and pursuing the short term benefit, rather than seeing the long-term outcome? Because dopamine isn’t the only...
