Daniel Siegel, M.D., wrote the forward to Mary Gordon’s singular book Roots of Empathy: Changing the World Child by Child,[1] in which Dr. Siegel capsules his understanding of empathy with “care, connect, communicate.” As a teacher himself, he suggests that empathy...
It was Abraham Maslow’s pyramid of needs in the mid 1900s that got human psychology well off the ground, because it was “so right on” with our everyday developmental experiences. The first two needs of physical wellbeing and security are tended to with adequate...
You might remember some years ago when, in writing a research paper, you probably had to go to the library to browse the stacks for books on a particular topic or even more recently, the Internet made more available what you were looking for via browser search to...
One of the fascinating customer-service features of Artificial Intelligence is its ability to quickly respond to personal habits and preferences. After a few clicks on Amazon, a customer receives follow-up suggestions for the kind of books that would be appealing or...
Uncertainty is part of the unknown future that tags along with today’s VUCA – volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Our fast moving technology in modern scientific research has our heads spinning. In the Oct. 23, 2019 issue of The Washington Post, there...
One of the most important products of Artificial Intelligence is its machine learning, a subset of A.I. that uses algorithms of computational statistics to mine data for inferences and pattern recognition in order to predict results or make decisions rather than...
Terminology can be tricky when its use is either changed from its original meaning or sets up confusion about its true nature. Words like “kleenex” and “xerox” could be examples of company names morphing into “facial tissue” or “copy duplication”. In today’s jargon,...
Vision is undoubtedly our most treasured senses as expressed in the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” We often doodle with designs to explain difficult thoughts. Even the blind are able to develop ‘sight’ through their sense of touch. In its...
From the beginning of mankind, humans “by the sweat of their brow had to earn their bread” (Gn. 3:19). It wasn’t until man domesticated animals that work became a bit easier; that was about 3,500 BC starting with the horse and then on to other animals; the dog seemed...
Of recent memory, Judith Glaser [1] proposed her theory of Conversational Intelligence, outlining three levels of communication styles, the most productive being “co-creating conversation that transforms and shapes reality together” through mutual trust. Glaser...
