What if you’re on the Titanic?
Some people might suggest moving the deck chairs around.
What would be a better approach? Steer better? Get off the boat completely?
According to Wikipedia, the fear of missing out or FOMO is “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent”. This can show up as “a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing”. FOMO is everywhere in modern, urban life. Most of the time it’s a minor irritant but it…
Researchers actually do call it the “what the heck” effect (or something close to that). It refers to the moment when you realize that you’ve blown your calorie goal for the day, so you might as well order pizza and beer. Or the moment when you have one cigarette at a party and go on…
Grizzly Momma Imagine that a mother grizzly has five cubs, conveniently named Cub Number One, Cub Number Two, Cub Number Three, Cub Number Four, and Cub Number Five. At first they don’t do much. They stay in the den, where they nurse and sleep and their mother cleans them. After their eyes open, they start…
Picture your thoughts as “cold call” sales representatives – the type who phone you when you are getting dinner ready. Some of them aren’t really all that gifted for the job. You just tell them you are not interested or that you are busy right now and they will apologize for having disturbed you and…
Clean Pain, Dirty Pain Nobody likes pain. It makes sense that we make every attempt to avoid it or make it go away. But why do some of us seem to have less of it than others? It may be helpful to sort our pain into two types: clean pain and dirty pain. It seems…
January is a time when many of us consider making personal changes. Inevitably, we also reflect on some of the resolutions to change that we made last January. And we might well come to the conclusion that change is just too darn difficult. This article discusses how this plays out with the specific concern of weight…