Decision making

Decision making, Life

Two Animals

Two animals inhabit this body The savage and the civilised The savage is wild, creative and instinctive The civilised is tame, conventional and restrained The…

Decision making, Life

The Mind

The mind of a human being is like a chaotic market with hawkers shouting and hustling you to buy. It is like a nightclub at…

Decision making, Life

The measure of a man

If you want to know the measure of a man, Don’t ask what makes him happy, ask him what troubles him. Don’t ask him what…

Decision making, Education, Life

Good Boy Syndrome

“Good boy.” These words are often spoken to a child after he gives a performance that meets the expectations of the parent, teacher or some…

Decision making, Education, Life

Prolonged Adolescence

Adolescence marks the beginning of physical and psychological maturity.It is the season when one begins to disentangle from their parents and chart their own path.…

Decision making, Life

Waiting for death

We are all going to die. If one contemplates their own death, a troubling question arises: why bother doing anything at all, if we are…

Decision making, Life

Happiness

Happiness is a highly sought-after commodity, yet most elusive. It is marketed as something you pick off the shelf in the happiness open market. There…

Decision making, Life

The Expert problem

Ladies and gentlemen, we have an expert problem Between a surgeon who graduated from medical school and has done two successful surgeries and a man…

Decision making, Life, Politics

Supermarket lines

Waiting in line in a supermarket is a delicate political decision, like choosing the right political spouse to win an election. Typically you start by…

Decision making, Life

When we ask for help

When we ask for help, we really don’t want the help, we want some relief. We don’t want a cure for our problems, we want…