A managing partner in a law firm decries that the 20-someting crop of new lawyers seem to have a attitude of entitlement, expecting sign-on bonuses, vacations, benefits, and high salaries; “they expect to start as partners”.
Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
What have you done for me lately?
Monday, January 30th, 2012 Happiness is a choice
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
For many people, happiness seems to be elusive. For others it seems to be a natural state of being. Are some people hardwired to be miserable while others are hard wired to be happy? I think not. I believe that happiness can be experienced by all people. Yes, even those that are down and out can experience happiness. I have witnessed people who live in mud huts within an impoverished village, tenement housing, group homes, and even homeless folks living under a bridge, experience greater happiness in their lives than those who live in multimillion dollar houses and earn six figure incomes. What can these people teach us about happiness?
Forget about New Year’s resolutions
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
I think New Year resolutions are a waste of time. They only serve to make us feel good at the time we are making them. We feel righteous. It is a short term feel good. However, in the long run we end up feeling worse about ourselves. New Year resolutions are similar to eating that high calorie dessert; we feel good for the moment and then have to deal with the bulging waistline. As the old TV commercial used to say, “I can’t believe I ate the whole thing!” Or similar to overspending on our credit card; it feels good at the moment. The pain comes along with the statement from the credit card company a month later. New Year resolutions similarly feel good in January but feel awful in December.
We cannot control the hand we are dealt, but…
Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
The old saying, “we cannot control the hand we are dealt, but we can control how we play the hand” is very powerful. Whether it is the economy, illness, accidents, etc., we have a choice regarding how we are going to deal with circumstance in which we find ourselves.
Is Marriage Sacred?
Thursday, November 24th, 2011
There has been much hullabaloo made by the Tea Party advocates, religious fundamentalists, and other groups, claiming that marriage is sacred. They use the “sanctity of marriage” call as the reason why we should not legalize gay marriage (a clear violation of the principle of separation of church and state.) Yet, we have many Hollywood marriages where celebrities marry for convenience, money (e.g., the Kardashian marriage), publicity, etc. Marriage makes good press! And these sanctity of marriage groups say absolutely nothing. (A bit of hypocrisy, no?)
Does it matter why people do good?
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Winning at any cost: Penn State
Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Penn State University is the most recent examples of “winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing!”
Hypochondiasis and Other Anxiety Disorders (Part 3)
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Hypochondriasis and Other Anxiety Disorders (Part 2)
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
This is the second part of a three-part post (See Part 1). In Part 1 I discussed the four most common types of anxiety disorders. In this post I will focus on causes. In the third in this series I will will discuss treatments.
Hypochondriasis and Other Anxiety Disorders (Part 1)
Saturday, November 5th, 2011
All human beings experience some degree of anxiety. It ranges from mild anxiety that comes and goes to more serious forms. When anxiety interferes with normal functioning in the world, limits productivity, or diminishes a person’s full enjoyment of life, we refer to it as an anxiety disorder. In this post I will be briefly describing four types of anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, hypochondriasis, phobia, and panic disorder. In my next post I will be discussing causes and treatments.
