I HATE IT WHEN SOMEONE IN MY OWN FIELD IS A DISHONEST A**HOLE

                                           

  Former Stanford colleagues warn that radiologist, Dr. Scott Atlas, fosters both falsehoods and misrepresentations of science...

Over 70 Stanford Medical School doctors and researchers signed a letter.

Respected, Bright, and Gracious...

        R.B.G.

Our hearts are collectively broken today...

Faux Pas 101 [we're well beyond 'covfefe']

 

Only one with a bovine brain would cite "herd mentality" instead of "herd immunity"... moreover, the latter is typically associated with everyone getting properly  VACCINATED...  

... not masses of people succumbing to widespread sickness!

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE FOOLS WHO VOTE FOR FOOLS...

 I only wish they didn't live in my neighborhood (like the idiot with the Trump flag one block over)

Just can't imagine what they're thinking...

CULTIVATING BENEVOLENCE...

 

THE BEAUTIFUL NATURE OF A 

'SELF-ACTUALIZED' INDIVIDUAL

RE: Traits of a Self Actualized Person, Maslow’s well-regarded research notes the following: 

        They resist enculturation 

          'Self-actualizers' tend to be nonconformists, since they are inner-directed people.  If a cultural norm is contrary to their personal values, they simply will not adhere to it.

 

They are more introverted than extroverted, and also exhibit strong leadership qualities. 

They are never joiners!!!

  They are creative:

  Maslow found this trait in all of the self-actualizers.

“This is a universal characteristic of all the people studied or observed.  There is no exception. This creativeness appears in some of our subjects not in the usual forms of writing books, composing music, or producing artistic objects … It is as if this special type of creativeness being an expression of healthy personality is projected out upon the world, or touches whatever activity the person is engaged in.  In this sense there can be creative shoemakers or carpenters or clerks. This creativity comes from the fact that self-actualizers are more open to experience and more spontaneous in their feelings.” 

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They are autonomous and, as a result thereof, tend to be independent of their environment:  

 “Because self-actualizers are B-motivated rather than D-motivated, they are more dependent on their own inner world than on the outer world. Deficiency motivated people must have other people available since most of their main need gratifications (love safety. respect, prestige, 'belongingness') can come only from other human beings.  But growth motivated [B-motivated] people may actually be hampered by others. The determinants of satisfaction, and of the good life, are for them inner &individual, and not social.  They have become strong enough to be independent of the good opinion of other people, or even of their affection.  The honors, the status, the rewards, the popularity, the prestige and the love others can bestow must have become less important than self-development and inner growth.”

   They have a strong ethical sense: 

Although their notions of right and wrong are often unconventional, self-actualizers, nonetheless almost always know the ethical implications of their own actions.  

   They tend to accept democratic values: 

Self-actualizers do not respond to individuals on the basis of race, status or religion.  They can be [and are] friendly with anyone of suitable character regardless of class, education, political belief, race or color.  As a matter of fact, it often seems as if they are not even aware of these differences, which are 'for the average person' so obvious and important. 

Our current president is clearly not one of the benevolent people of whom I speak...