People create their Gods in their own image and likeness. This is not an argument that God does or does not exist. It's merely an observation that what people claim to know about God is always a projection. This thought that God is a projection occurred to me when looking…
In this article, Elizabeth Loftus details how "many individuals can be led to construct complex, vivid and detailed false memories via a rather simple procedure." The effect is unnervingly powerful.
I've often heard about "flow," but never from the man who was personally responsible for developing the theory: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "cheeks sent me high").
As you may or may not know, I am a documentary filmmaker working mostly within the very inbred and insular world of bodybuilding. From the local level to the pros, I have covered it all. A few weeks ago I was in New York shooting footage for a new documentary…
In this lecture on TED, Jonathan Haidt discusses his approach, which involves "five foundations of morality." Haidt also explains that, in our attempts to better understand morality, too many of us are trapped in a non-ending cycle in which "everybody thinks they are right." We are in need of humility, and the best way to get moral humility is to escape moral righteousness by striving to step out of the struggle. We need to see that liberals and conservatives both have something to offer to the conversation of change versus stability. I've written repeatedly and glowingly about Haidt's approach to morality. You can find earlier DI posts regarding Haidt's approach to morality here and here.