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“I’m turning the company over to my sons on January 1,” said the founder of a highly successful company with deserved pride. “And what will you do on...
Gerald Le Van’s Notes on James Hollis’ “The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Mid-life” Inner City Books, Toronto, 1993. ollis is a psychologist and heads the Jungian Society in Houston, Texas. He writes well but some readers may be turned off by his turgid colorful psychological literary style replete with references to mythology. These notes are for those readers.
We are happiest in our early years and again in our later years. We’re not so happy in mid-life. Or at least so says the research.
Mid-life can be...
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On chilly mornings in the coastal marsh you may hear hundreds of wild geese flocked together, gently honking, feeding on found grain. Then, as though...
“Medieval alchemists failed to turn lead into gold. Wealthy twenty-first century parents fear a reverse alchemy. Will their children transmute...
Reprinted from Business Entities magazine, January-February 2000.
Era Warp
The Modern Era began with the 17th Century Enlightenment and ended...
The U.S. Declaration of Independence enshrines "the pursuit of happiness" as an inalienable right. But what is happiness? Who is happy? And how does...
Martin Seligman, the founder of "positive psychology" 1 , is the most influential psychologist of our day. Findings from his "happiness research"...
According to anthropologists, our brain architecture has changed little during the past 250,000 years. Our brains still carry strong primal survival...