Off a Cliff: We're reaching key tipping points

How I Push People Away: A fictional short-short story

Could Your Next Job Interview Be Like This?

On Reading

A C?!: A fictional short-short story

A Remarkable Retirement: A fictional short-short story

StuporHeroes Parables, Episode 9: Dunder Woman

Give...and Give...and Give...Sigh

Throwing the Book at Him: a short-short story

Things I'm Unsure About

Why It’s Hard to Be Open-Minded: And three suggestions if you want to change.

Most people claim to be open-minded or at least aspire to be, but it’s not so easy. How open are we really to core views other than our own? A few examples: liberal vs conservative, religious vs atheist, or if you’re in psychology, psychodynamic versus cognitive-behavioral therapy.

And some people don’t want to be more open-minded, perhaps because they enjoy the certitude of their "rectitude," or because they feel they've sufficiently considered an issue and don’t want to spend more time on it.

But if you might want to become more open-minded, My Psychology Today article today may help.

How-to-Do-Life Tweets: Trips for improving your life

I believe in tweeting. It provides an archive of one’s distilled thoughts. I’ve posted 4,593 tweets since 2009. Here on PsychologyToday.com, I periodically post the best that are relevant to my blog’s title, How to Do Life. My Psychologytoday.com contribution today offers the current crop.

:How Tolerant Are You, Really?

Today, tolerance is among our most vaunted virtues and most people describe themselves as tolerant. But how tolerant are we really? And when would you like to be more tolerant? Less so?

In my PsychologyToday.com article, today, for 16 situations, I ask you to assess how tolerant you'd be and whether you'd like to change.

HERE is the link.

White Males Need Not Apply

I've just come across a particularly vivid example of the countless signs to white males that, in the 21st century, they are as excluded as minorities and women were in previous generations. It is the New York Times' -just acquired aftercollege.com. This site helps employers find college-educated employees. On its home page and its two other tabbed pages, there are 10 photos of the target employee. Not one white male.