Is economics a science? The short answer is no. Economics acts like a science and quacks like one—it has developed an impressive mathematical apparatus and awards itself a Nobel Prize each year—but it is not yet a science. It fails to ground itself in underlying...
As a psychotherapist who works not only with individuals, but also with couples, I have witnessed a great deal of marital carnage over the last thirty years. Each week, wives and husbands, long-term girlfriends and boyfriends, as well as gay or lesbian partners, come to...
That an absolutely generic instinct is the foundation of all love of sex may be confirmed by a closer analysis of the subject — an analysis which can hardly be avoided. In the first place, a man in love is by nature inclined to be...
The hero of Tolstoy’s novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) has long ago fallen out of love with his wife, his children are a mystery to him and he has no friends other than those who can advance him in his career and whose...
After knowing hundreds of families, I find that each one can he placed somewhere along a scale from very nurturing to wry troubled. I see many similarities in the way nurturing families operate. Troubled families, too, no matter what their problems, seem to have much...
In Love class one night when a girl said, "I know why I'm so despairing all the time. It's because I want to be loved by everybody, and that's a human impossibility. I could be the most delectable, the most delicious, the most wondrous peach...
Let's talk about risk, because risk is so nice. Once you begin to become hooked on risk , your whole life changes. But change and growth take place only when you're willing to risk and experiment with your own life. You're never sure of anything....
Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plats are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft...
WHY YOU SHOULD FORGET THE PAST The sunk cost fallacy is most dangerous when we have invested a lot of time, money, energy or love in something. This investment becomes a reason to carry on, even if we are dealing with a lost cause. The more...
