Yesterday was a rough day. My elderly 19-year-old dog peed AND pooped in my car. 🙁 In a fit of exasperation–having too much to do, it was terribly hot out, and I needed to pack for a trip–when I cleaned up the poop I threw out the feathers that I’d found in the days after…
During the final hearing for my Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Chicago, my advisor, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi pulled me aside and whispered to me: “NEVER use the word heart in a job talk.” My Ph.D. dissertation was on how adults learn in everyday life and I’d mentioned the heart too many times. Mihaly could tell…
The artist Paul Reynard wrote: “A work of art is necessarily incomplete. It is a way of learning.” We’re all in this process of art-making, whether we think of ourselves as artists or not, because we’re all learners. Reynard was asked before he died, “What is the place of art in contemporary life?” He responded,…
Our brains make stuff up. Confabulation is a medical term that refers to “the production or creation of false or erroneous memories without the intent to deceive.” (You could call it “honest lying.”) In other words, we humans can share false stories, genuinely believing they are true. from Confabulation: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals…
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