Popular Culture: What to Get My Kids for Christmas
I’ve been having another one of those “end of civilization as we know it” moments lately. It started when my wife and I began Christmas shopping for our daughters and were overwhelmed by the seemingly unending universe of toys from which to choose (don’t even get me started on how the Christmas season is now […]
Read MoreYouTube Channel: Prime Sport Alert!: Introduction to Prime Sport
I’ve just posted my first Prime Sport Alert! video newsletter, Introduction to Prime Sport:
Read MoreYouTube Channel: Prime Family Alert!: Fear of Failure
I’ve just posted my first Prime Family Alert! video newsletter, Fear of Failure:
Read MoreSki Racing/Parenting: Do You Want a Gifted or Hard-working Ski Racer?
Giftedness is revered in our culture; inborn talent—whether intellectual, athletic, or artistic—ensures that children will be successful. How many times have you heard “Bode Miller was born to ski race” or “Lindsay Vonn was destined to greatness?” Well, let me clear something up: No one is born to do anything, certainly not to ski race. […]
Read MoreEducation: Are Public Education Chicken Littles Wrong?
We have been hearing a constant drumbeat from politicians, policy wonks, and pundits that America’s public education system is losing the educational “arms race” against other countries around the world. These advocates for reform use the widely reported results of testing of students from dozens of countries showing that U.S. students have gone from world […]
Read MoreSki Racing: 5 Things I Hate to See Racers Do in Training
I’ve been in the ski racing world since I was six years old. The first 20 years, I was a racer learning the ups and downs of ski racing the hard way, mostly through trial and error, and sometimes painful failure. That, I can say with 20/20 hindsight and absolute certainty, is no way to […]
Read MoreTechnology: Be Focused, Be Happy
Recent research that has been making the media rounds lately has reported that when people are focused on a task they indicate that they are happier than when their mind wanders. This research is obviously not breaking news for the tens of millions of Buddhists and uncounted others who have experienced the phenomenon of being […]
Read MoreLatest News: My new YouTube channel
I just started a YouTube channel, JimTaylorPhD, on which I have posted some of my television interviews. In the coming months, I will also be creating video newsletters to coincide with my three bi-monthly e-newsletters, Prime Business Alert!, Prime Family Alert!, and Prime Sport Alert!. Visit my home page to sign up for the digital […]
Read MoreSki Racing/Parenting: Raise Successful Achievers
Parents who want their children to achieve something called “success” may find that this goal conflicts with their desire for their children to also become happy. Achieving success, as typically defined by our culture, emphasizes wealth and social status, and is often at odds with what the research has shown to produce happiness. A perusal […]
Read MorePolitics: Disgust: Political Emotion of the Times
There have been a whole lot of emotions flying around this fall leading up to and in the aftermath of the mid-term elections in November. Before November 2nd, there was mostly frustration and anger on the Right and fear and resignation on the Left. After the “shellacking” at the polls, another set of emotions kicked […]
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