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Showing posts with label a humanist. Show all posts

Planning for Personal Success - a humanist way.

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As the new year approaches, you may be thinking about your New Year's Resolutions. Let me help you plan for your personal success, as a ...

Try to love people - every day

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One of my LinkedIn friends asked what I thought was a very profound question the other day. What are you doing that nobody else is doing? ...

Gratitude for the past year - looking forward to the next

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This past year has been amazing for me. I got to go to India on business to speak at a Happy Workplace Conclave put on by my new friend...

Self Care in Divided Times

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Pretty much every woman I speak to is stressed out. Really stressed out.   We are having trouble concentrating at work. We can’t seem to...

Humanist views on abortion

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Humanists, by and large, are pro-choice. Meaning, we think a woman should have the right to choose whether she becomes pregnant or whether ...

How many Humanists are there?

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Question: Is it proper that humanist organizations count (more or less) all non-religious people as humanists? My answer:  I don’t t...

Humility from a Humanist perspective

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For a Humanist, humility is an important part of our approach to happiness. And it has several different uses and dimensions. Intellec...

7 Principles of Humanistic Leadership

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Humanistic Leadership is an ethical philosophic approach that is at once: compassionate, reasonable and strategic. Humanism as a philos...

Why is Humanism so Important?

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Philosophy isn’t what we think. It’s how we think. It’s the framework within which we do our thinking. Your thinking, to a certain ...
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What you weren’t taught about making pro/con lists

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Decision making list matrices: what my mom never told me! Whenever I faced a big decision when I was younger, my mom taught me to make ...

Conditioning and Choices

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Humans have the ability to choose whether the conditions we find ourselves in will condition us. I was reading Viktor Frankel’s book The ...

Dealing with an annoying co-worker – humanistically

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The single best way to deal with an annoying co-worker is by cultivating compassion for them, followed by a commitment to be professional e...

It takes a village

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Humanist parenting – collectively – even when the other parents aren't humanists. I live in a nice neighborhood. We have a lot of k...
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Optimism Grounded in Reality

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Why positive thinking isn’t actually very good for you. It turns out, that positive thinking isn’t all that positive.  People who pract...

Life is Uncertain

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And that uncertainty causes a LOT of stress. Here are the ways I handle that as a Humanist. One of the things I like about what I do is...

Suicide, Humanism and Choice

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Robin Williams’s death has upset pretty much everyone. He was well loved. But it does give us an opportunity to discuss suicide and whether...

Loving Touch

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Why physical touch is so important to our health   We are born to touch. We need touch. We crave touch. It’s part of what makes us h...

How to Be Happy

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How to be happy despite it all. I have written on this a bunch. Basically, for me, as a Humanist, it comes down to these three rules:...

Human Exceptionalism

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Humanists are not human exceptionalists.  Don’t get me wrong. We like being human, but we are also aware that as a species, we aren't n...

What does it mean to be responsible?

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Is responsibility a good thing? Or a bad thing? Well, that depends on what you think responsibility is.  For a lot of people seeking h...