Business/Sports/Personal Growth: A Little Self-deception Can Go a Long Way
Research has shown that deceiving yourself, what is called “positive illusion” in psych-speak, can actually increase confidence, influence over others, and performance. Of course, self-deception that is too disconnected from reality will not work so well. But telling yourself that you are just a bit better than you actually are can go a long way. […]
Read MoreLatest News: New Taylor parenting book just published
I’m pleased to announce that my latest parenting book, Raising Generation Tech: Preparing Your Children for a Media-fueled World, has been published by Sourcebooks and is available at online retailers and major bookstores. To purchase, visit here. And if you do buy a copy, I would appreciate it if you would post a review on amazon. […]
Read MoreParenting/Education: Time to Redefine Success
Teach Your Children Well, the new book by Dr. Madeline Levine, looks like a good read. Its premise is very much in line with my own views on the importance of parents defining success and failure in healthy ways for their children rather than relying on our popular culture or education systems to do so.
Read MoreBusiness: What is the Stock Market Thinking?
If the stock market was a person—gosh, if corporations can have the same rights as people, why can’t the stock market have thoughts and feelings?— he could be diagnosed with a wide range of psychiatric disorders (I don’t mean to be sexist, but the majority of people in the stock market are male and, if […]
Read MoreTechnology: Even Silicon Valley Says Step Away from the ‘Matrix’
Even the Lords of Tech are realizing that too much technology can be unhealthy. I’ve been writing about this for years. Nice to see that they’re finally getting it. “Stuart Crabb, a director in the executive offices of Facebook, naturally likes to extol the extraordinary benefits of computers and smartphones. But like a growing number […]
Read MoreParenting: Do Parents Replay (or Try to Correct) Their Own Childhoods?
My wife, Sarah, and I have two daughters, ages 7 and 5, and, thankfully, we have very similar philosophies on how we want to raise our girls. This common ground has enabled us to provide a generally united and consistent front in the messages we send and, over all, how we respond to each of […]
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