Knowing #4: Making Educated Guesses

I’ve been trained in psychology by some of the best. But one of the most helpful things I ever learned came from an undergraduate statistics course. It was about estimating probabilities. But please don’t run away screaming, “I hate math!”...

Knowing #3: Your Core Beliefs

If you’ve read the first two topics on “knowing,” you can see that there are many things we don’t know and never will know. And yet we survive. How do we do that? We do it by adopting a few core beliefs that we use to explain all the things we...

Knowing #2: How Smart Are You?

How smart are you? How dumb are you? How do you know? DIFFERENT KINDS OF INTELLIGENCE Here are five ways to evaluate intelligence: I.Q. – Intelligence Quotient E.Q. – Emotional Quotient Speed of Comprehension Retention Usable Intelligence I.Q. –...

Knowing #1: How Do You Know?

What do you know? How do you know it? How sure can you be of what you know? DIFFERENT WAYS OF KNOWING We’ll be looking at these four ways knowing: Logic based on observation. Logic based on belief. Emotions alone. Emotions based on observation and belief. LOGIC...

How Are You Spending Your Life?

TIME AND ENERGY Life is really no more than a certain limited amount of time and energy. We make choices – every second – about how we spend that time and energy. To have a better life we must make better choices about how we use our time and energy. WHERE...
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