Reinventing Education: Elementary through graduate school

Yesterday, I offered thoughts on reinventing work. Today, I turn to education.

If education is our future, it would be brighter if reinvented. While most parents like their kids' school (if not perhaps COVID-forced distance learning), student learning has been disappointing, not just in international comparisons but in insufficiently preparing our next generation for the ever more demanding world they will inherit.

My Psychology Today article today offers my favorite ideas for how, not to reform education, but reinvent it.

Reinventing Work: Choosing a career, training, hiring, taxing, offices, creating jobs

Many people who have been in a career for a while have ideas on how to reinvent it. I am no exception. I’ve been a career advisor for more than 30 years. In addition, I've long enjoyed talking about work with friends and colleagues. 

My Psychology Today article today offers thoughts on how reinvent or make major improvements in the world of work.

Aging

I’ve written often on aging and thought it might be time to offer an augmented synthesis of my core thoughts on the subject. I've done so as my Psychology Today article today.

Secular Spirituality Six approaches that may particularly appeal to atheists and agnostics.

People have long sought the spiritual. And although the Pew Center for the Study of Religion finds "no-religion" to be the fastest growing religion, many people, including some atheists and agnostics, still want spirituality to be incorporated into their life.

That urge may feel more pressing today amid COVID stresses and racial roiling atop modern-day’s normal challenges.

My Psychology Today article today offers six ways in which even an atheist or agnostic can build spirituality into their lives.

COVID Recreations: On making the most of walking, reading, cooking, listening to and playing music, tweaking your home, and handwriting letters

My Psychology Today article today offers my thoughts on how to make of these COVID-friendly recreations: walking, reading, cooking, listening to and playing music, tweaking your home, and handwriting letters.

Brighter: Advice to a person who isn’t as brilliant as the parent

My Psychology Today article today offers a letter from a person who has felt inert because she doesn't feel she can compete with her father. I offer advice that could enable her to succeed on her own terms as well as to become a stronger thinker.

True Love: An expanded definition

We tend to think of true love as romantic: a soulmate, perfectly compatible sexually and in day-to-day life, perhaps even having met as in the movies: swoon at first sight.

May we all find such love but, fortunately, if we allow ourselves to expand from that definition, true love can manifest in a number of ways. We may be more pleased with our life if we search out or stop to appreciate another form(s) of true love. I describe some in my Psychology Today article today.