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Obama Needs to Be Tougher
By Ron Williams – citizen, contributor and patriot – 9-22-10 [Ron Williams is a retired attorney living in The Woodlands, TX and a welcome guest contributor to Social Mode] It took a tough, smart candidate to win the Democratic nomination … Continue reading
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Hypocritical Tea Party Members
By Ron Williams – citizen, contributor and patriot – 8-22-10 [Ron Williams is a retired attorney living in The Woodlands, TX and a welcome guest contributor to Social Mode] There can be no question but that there are serious issues … Continue reading
PEP FANtastic!
You may have seen it on news shows… Athletic Clubs with cardio programs where members jump up and down as if using a jump rope but don’t really have a rope to jump. Why? The club doesn’t want people to … Continue reading
Higher Order Conditioning & Conditoned Helplessness of Parents
Higher order conditioning (you know, the stuff we’re really good at) involves the paradigm where previously successfully conditioned stimulus (CS) operates as the unconditioned stimulus (US) for further conditioning. And, like classical conditioning in general, high-order classical conditioning is often … Continue reading
Business People Learning From Elite Athletes: One Approach
The 5th in a 5-Part Series… To start, the goal is not to be an ‘elite’ athlete… (5) Your actions are the consequences of – and an impetus for – action When a golfer golfs, there is an intention that … Continue reading
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Just sayin’…
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.” —H.L. Mencken: attacker of ignorance, intolerance, frauds, fundamentalist Christianity, osteopathy, myths and writers that mocked him for sport…
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Business People Learning From Elite Athletes: One Approach
To start, the goal is not to be an ‘elite’ athlete… Fourth in a 5-Part Series for www.SocialMode.com (1) Sports, like businesses or social movements have goals and costs. (2) The best way to advance is through the “Do”. (3) … Continue reading
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Are traditions roadblocks or safety nets?
Historically, the search for a way to describe the mechanics of what is going on out there in the world and how it impacts what is going on with organisms [sometimes referenced as “the mind”, personality, cognition, consciousness, intuition, etc.] … Continue reading
Richard Blumenthal and “The Technicality Generation”
Pressler in his NYT article of May 18th 2010, takes a stab at explaining why Connecticut’s attorney general, Richard Blumenthal and other unnamed people in the lime-light say and perform in corrupt or dishonest ways to get ahead can be … Continue reading
Business People Learning From Elite Athletes: One Approach
To start, the goal is not to be an ‘elite’ athlete… Third in a 5 Part Series on www.SocialMode.com (1) Sports, like businesses or social movements have goals and costs. (2) The best way to advance is through the “Do”. … Continue reading
