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Am I smarter than a lab rat?

One of the talks I like to give is called Human Nature 101. It discusses a number of classic studies in psychology and relates them to day to day experiences. The talk used to be called Simple and Profound. I called it that because simple principles can often have a profound affect on us. We [...]

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Gambling on our self-control

Hi folks, I didn’t add a post last week because I did not want to take the focus off Randy Pausch’s lecture. It was also an emotional week for me. My cousin Sam died. He was a great man. The Pausch lecture said so much about how to live one’s life to the fullest (as [...]

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