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“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 an anxiety attack. For a trainer on the… Continue Reading
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 always seems to be going the extra mile. And… Continue Reading
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 Powell, in the first Gulf War used to tell his intelligence officers to first… Continue Reading
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, largely worthless solutions, before the eureka moment (Lehrer… Continue Reading
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 thing working inside our heads. Hey, ya like losing? Right. Me either. That’s… Continue Reading
Dopamine. Turns out that little awesome molecule is an awesome indicator predictor of events and helps us make decisions (Lehrer 34-35). When our nuclear accumbens (NAcc) is stimulated (that’s a part of our brain that generates pleasurable feelings) it triggers a massive release of dopamine (Lehrer 34-35). Continuous stimulation of the NAcc renders us worthless,… Continue Reading
Ever notice how some friends you have for life, while others you have just for a period of your life? I’ve often wondered why. Also, why is that boys and girls go from playing with each other and hardly noticing their gender differences, to being repelled by one another to desiring each other? All of… Continue Reading
The TSA announced they are reversing their earlier policy that would have allowed small pocket knives, hockey sticks and a few other items back in the cabin of the aircraft. Regardless of the right or wrong’ness of this step, it seems Pistole is learning that TSA is not like the FBI. Industry participation in policy… Continue Reading
I remember Columbine High School. I was on site the following day. At the time, I was the public information officer for Jefferson County Airport, which sits at the northern end of the county. Columbine sits at the southern end. The next day, all county PIO’s volunteered to go to the public library near Columbine… Continue Reading
When I was around 12-years-old my best friend at the time, and I, got into a fist fight while on a joint family vacation to Lake Powell. Jeff (same name and coincidentally same birthdate and same middle name as mine) and I met through our mom’s who worked together and we were the best of… Continue Reading