“CRUNCH!” What was that? I turned to look forward and saw the emergency phone pole. It suddenly became painfully obvious that I had been wrong. I had thought the pole was put there for someone to use the phone in case of emergency. But no, it looks like the pole was actually put there to create an emergency. I got out of the car to survey the damage…and yes, I had just totaled my car going 10mph through an otherwise empty parking lot.
Don’t be a-Freud
Sigmund Freud was a strange dude. The father of psychoanalysis must have had more than a few problems of his own. Let’s examine some aspects of his life and you be the judge:
- While at the University of Vienna, he spent 4 weeks dissecting hundreds of eels in an unsuccessful search for their male reproductive organs. ( I guess I don’t have Freud’s intellectual curiosity because I would have called it a day before the first eel)
Self-Talk… Don’t Loose the Argument
We all have self-talk. This is our inner talk…what we say to ourselves, usually quietly unless we look around first to make sure no one else is there. We all do it…well, maybe not all of us, but almost all of us. I’m not sure how the famous Marcel Marceau (the pantomime artist) talks to himself. Maybe he just pictures rooms with invisible walls in his mind. It must be weird to think in terms of clownish cartoons, with people in white painted faces moving very slowly and bumping into obstacles that aren’t really there.