By: Larry F. Waldman, PhD, ABPP Psychologist You’re walking down the street and someone confronts you, demands your wallet or purse or face physical harm—or, as you are about to get into your car, you are carjacked. Both of these experiences are scary, frightening, traumatic and terribly inconvenient. On the other hand, your identity is stolen electronically and your [...]
Despite our dreams many of us fail to achieve our life ambitions. Many of my clients talk about starting a business, becoming financially independent, writing a novel, traveling, furthering their education, getting physically fit, or becoming a nurse, teacher, or lawyer. Most of the time their objectives go unfulfilled. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: “Most people go to their graves [...]
This scandal hits many folk’s “hot button”: The rich keep getting richer; the discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots continues to deepen; the law is applied differently to the super rich; and, of course, the blatant unfairness that a deserving student will be supplanted by someone who bribed their way in. I get it. I submit, though, that [...]
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