I give really good advice. Seriously I do. It isn't so much that I help people solve their immediate problems, it is that I help them think more clearly about their problems so that they can solve them in a way they are going to feel REALLY good about. The people I help tell me I have transformed their lives. The approach I teach is called Humanism and it has been around since, well, forever. The three main aspects of the philosophy I teach is how to make better decisions thru critical thinking. How to improve your relationships thru compassion and how to infuse your life with meaning and purpose by applying your ethics actively to all your decisions, not just the big ones.
I am the host of this website and the author of The Bully Vaccine which teaches an operant conditioning approach to the problem of bullying.
Bullying is not very creative. Yes, it can manifest in different ways, verbal taunts, threats, violence or cyber campaign of harassment. But that’s pretty much it. Bullying is distressing and …
We know how to get bullies to stop using behavioral science. This is essentially an education problem. If we could teach people these skills then the world we imagine would be created.
So what can and should a school be doing? They should be maximizing their responses to reports of problems to facilitate behavioral extinction of bullying behavior and they should ensure their processes follow up to ensure the bullying behavior is actually extinguished. But they can’t do that if they don’t understand the process of behavioral extinction. This requires knowledge of and experience with behavioral modification techniques known as operant conditioning.
Question: How do you ensure that bullying doesn’t affect you? If it’s going on for a long time and its making you depressed but you can’t go away from it …