We’ve all done it. Going through the motions of showering in the morning and not remembering whether you shampooed before you put in the conditioner. Meeting someone new, engaging in a whole conversation but unable to remember the person’s name afterward. Driving somewhere and then wondering how you got that ...

My last blog provided an exercise with multiple solutions—but not the answers so that you would have the opportunity to try it for yourself. Herewith are the various possible answers and what they can tell about your thought processes. The exercise asks you to fill in the first and ...

Formal education trains people to be efficient, learning routines so that the tasks become hardwired. For example, once people learn to read, they automatically attempt to read when faced with text. The message may be indecipherable if written in an unfamiliar language, but in mo...

2020 has been a challenging year, to say the least. We have all had to make changes, in some cases significant changes, in the way we do things. Many of us have left our offices to work at home. Our children are also schooling fro...

Part 1 explored why smart people do highly questionable things. Part 2 delves deeper into how personality affects decision making.
As noted in Part 1, for some people, modifying a goal is the equivalent of admitting failure. And they will never admit failure. On...

Perhaps the most rewarding part of my work is helping post-traumatic brain injury clients to regain astery of skills they thought were lost forever. Many of you may be familiar with this aspect of my work from Clark Elliott’s book, The Ghost in My Brain, about his nearly decade-long journey to recover from a concussion...

In our increasingly complicated world, we have so much information that we must wade through to make a decision. Today, we wouldn’t think of making a major purchase such as a car without looking online to see the price ranges in our area, and how much the various options cost. ...

Today we have far more information than we have ever had. We used to have a handful of TV channels, now we have hundreds, not counting streaming services, and Facebook, etc. We used to have a daily paper (sometimes morning and evening editions), now we have the 24-hou...

“I ask my kids/spouse/employees to do something and invariably, they always get it wrong and I have to end up doing it myself!”
We’ve all heard people say this, and probably have said this ourselves, but is it really the other ...

I hear it all the time: "My wife (brother, co-worker, etc.) just doesn’t get what I’m saying." Today's polarized political climate has exacerbated the issue.
There are a number of ways to effectively address these communication issues, therapy, role-pl...