Thinking About Facts Must Be “Straight” Thinking
Straight thinking is also all about the facts. What facts? All that can be known. And how do we define a fact? Facts are truths that can be verified in
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Straight Thinking Demands Honesty and Truthfulness
Straight thinking is all about another “moral” necessity: honesty and truthfulness. Honesty not only includes telling the whole truth accurately, but honesty must be the motivation when seeking to tell
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“Straight” Thinking Tells the Whole Truth
Meeting the requirement to tell the whole truth to ensure straight thinking is a tough task for us all. Facts are where we tend to make our most common crooked
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Straight versus Crooked Thinking
Suppose we want a belief system built on evidence and sound, rational thinking. In that case, we will need straight (analytical, logical) thinking to comprise a convincing faith of our
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What Is Straight Thinking? — Introductory Thoughts
These articles will now change in nature somewhat. My new book (proposed release date in late April of 2021) is titled Who Am I? We are what we think. So, the book
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Change the World by Changing How We Think
Here’s an age-old remedy for diseases of the mind: Change the way you think and you change who you are. Furthermore, when you change who you are, you change the
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Ours Is a Dysfunctional Culture
Parents are frustrated and hurting with the challenges of the current dysfunctional culture. It’s dysfunctional because it contradicts itself. Furthermore, it encourages our youth to believe in an angry, self-centered,
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Understanding for this Changing World
The world is changing — FAST! We find it hard to understand why people think the way they do. It is especially hard for parents to understand why their youth
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Manage Emotions to Strengthen the Grip on Yourself
Keep three words in mind when you want to use more tools to teach yourself and others to manage emotions. They are: distract, disconnect, reframe. All three are ways to
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Creating A New Mind — Where to Start
Key to our success in controlling emotions is… Well, let me ask you a question. Do you remember what lies at the core of all conscious human functioning (behavior) and
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Manage Emotions to Strengthen the Grip on Yourself
Keep three words in mind when you want to use more tools to teach yourself and others the management of emotions. They are: distract, disconnect, reframe. All three are ways to
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Using Our Rational Brain to Get a Grip on Ourselves
Using words we all can readily understand, the emotional brain needs to be calmed down at times, especially when we are in the grip of an emotional outburst. So far,
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