Jim Applegate

In an earlier post, I predicted that I might have ADHD. My son had been diagnosed with it, and I probably had some form of it as a kid. I didn’t really

We are all trying to make the world better… for someone. Even if it’s just for ourselves. If you have a family, you might branch out to try to make their world

The idea that you have a personal universe is not something you’ll see in the scientific literature. There is no part of your brain that cognitive scientists can point to and say

A challenge — in the context of your personal universe — is an idea, metaphor, perspective, or other artifact that causes you to rethink something. I say it “causes you to rethink”, but it can’

When we rethink something, we go back over the experiences and arguments that lead us to a particular conclusion and look for other possibilities. We look for errors in our thinking, like jumping