Resisting Peer Pressure and Group Think

We humans are instinctively programmed to want to fit in.  When someone marks us as others, our immediate instinct is to basically beg to get back into the “group.” This …

Breaking a Wild Horse, Extinction Bursts and Bullying

My son and I had a conversation about how you tame and about how the behavioral extinction process is the same for taming animals to ride them as it is to get bullies to stop. They will fight you and eventually stop – if you do not give them their reward.

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It’s Not About You – Adult Edition

When people behave badly – it’s rarely about you and almost always – all about them.  The best thing you can do is be compassionate. If you make it all about you – you are not helping yourself or them and you will end up hurting more than you need to and probably make the stressed out poorly behaving person – behave even worse.