Pero nadie se atreve a dar por supuesto que, si los niños llevan un rato callados, es porque están viendo un deuvedé educativo. No, las madres enseguida piensan que un hermano ha estrangulado a otro,...
Los empresarios confiaban en que el pensamiento positivo aplacara a las víctimas de las reestructuraciones y fomentara en los supervivientes las ganas de hacer un esfuerzo aún más heroico.
Las grandes empresas cada vez se parecen más a lo que llamamos sectas: organizaciones que exigen total sumisión a un líder de inspiración divina.
You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interrup...
What would it mean in practice to eliminate all the 'negative people' from one's life [as demanded by motivational speaker J.P. Maroney]? It might be a good idea to separate from a chronically carping...
We were not supposed to know anything about our own bodies or to participate in decision-making about our own care.
Very often in a classroom or a conversation I feel like yelling, 'What difference does it make?' Because 94% of my life is occupied with utter trivia. Much of my rebelliousness starts with indifferenc...
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we’re a family here, we associates and our servant leaders, held together solely by our commitment to the guests. After all, you’d need a lot strong...
So this was the mental procedure, which even a little girl could learn: First, size up the situation. Make sure you have all the facts, and nothing but the facts—no folklore, no conventional wisdom, n...
Según una historia del coaching que se puede leer en internet, el sector de los coaches o entrenadores le debe su enorme crecimiento en la década de 1990 a que se acabó ‘el empleo vitalicio’.35 La gra...
Según el plan de los Simonton, la mujer tenía que dedicar parte de la jornada a dibujar batallas entre células con forma de insecto, como si fueran un tebeo. Si en estos dibujos las células cancerosas...
My religious friends - and my friends were almost all Catholics or Protestants or occasionally something more exotic like Jewish or Greek Orthodox - were convinced that God had a plan for us, and sinc...
Morality, as far as I could see, originates in atheism and the realization that no higher power is coming along to feed the hungry or lift the fallen. Mercy is left entirely to us.
In other words, it requires deliberate self-deception, including a constant effort to repress or block out unpleasant possibilities and 'negative' thoughts. The truly self-confident, or those who have...
If we want developed societies with women doctors, political leaders, teachers, bus drivers, and computer programmers, we will need qualified people to give loving care to their children. And there is...
I wish I could say I rushed back and confronted George to get his side of the story. I wish I could say I stood up to Vic and insisted that George be given a translator and allowed to defend himself o...
I was born to atheism and raised in it, by people who had derived their own atheism from a proud tradition of working-class rejection of authority in all its forms, whether vested in bosses or priests...
For most people, throughout most of the twentieth century, medical care necessarily involved an encounter with a social superior—a white male from a relatively privileged background.
Everyone in yuppie-land — airports, for example — looks like a nursing baby these days, inseparable from their plastic bottles of water. Here, however, I sweat without replacement or pause, not in ind...