Are you superstitious? If you break a mirror, will it bring you seven years of bad luck? Do you rub a gold wedding band to cure a sty? We are always thinking that we have absolute control over the physical world. Most times, we try to make sense of what happens around us and attempt to predict it. Like...

This is the third and final part weekly series regarding critical thinking. Lets imagine I present you with the opportunity to win money. All you have to do is pick a red jelly bean from a bowl while blindfolded. You have two options, one bowl has only 1 red jelly bean with 9 white ones and the other...

Are you happy when it’s your birthday? Why do we celebrate Birthdays and why is it so important to us? Birthdays are celebrated everyday and everywhere. From China to North America, birthdays are milestones that are celebrated in everyone’s life. While the festivities are different, the...

This is the second article of a three part series titled “Critical Thinking” On Part I of this series, we talked about how to dissect information . The second part of the series deals with probability. Probability is the likelihood of an event occurring. This approach is very important to...

Have you ever been in a conversation and wonder if the person you are talking to is lying? Wouldn’t you love to know for sure if a person is lying? Psychology has spent decades studying this topic. There are numerous channels of communication between us, verbal and nonverbal. Nonverbal communication...

Don’t you wish we could go without sleeping? We could accomplish much more in our days. We spend one third of our lifetime sleeping. Imagine that! But why do we sleep? Common sense would tell us that we sleep to recuperate our energy from a day’s work. But sleeping is a far more complex process...

Have you ever been in a boring meeting and start drawing on the margins of your notepad? What about in a class or while talking on the phone? We all do it, but do we know why? Do they mean something? WHAT IS IT? Doodling is an absent minded scribble or marks without aim, purpose or thought. Some definitions...

Following up on last week’s article about good relationships, its important to take a look at three things bad relationships have in common. There is nothing worse than being anchored down by a bad relationship. Unfortunately, most of us have been in one or maybe you are in one right now. Some...

Have you ever been in a bad relationship? Are you in one now? There is nothing worse than being in a bad relationship and there is nothing better than being in a great relationship. But what makes a good relationship from a bad one? There are a plethora of factors influencing how good or bad a relationship...

This is the first article of a three part series titled “Critical Thinking” What is critical thinking? Do we know what it is? How can I acquire it? Critical Thinking is the mental process of using all the senses to gather, analyze and process information. The utilization of these techniques...