The multiplier effect- how one check can help many people.
"Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."...
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Dan Connors
- Feb 6, 2021
- 6 min
Surviving Death
Death. We all avoid thinking about it or talking about it because it's unknown and scary. But there's something about winter that makes...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 31, 2021
- 5 min
Post Corona- How will our world change?
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Scott Galloway 2020 Our world has been changing rapidly for decades...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 30, 2021
- 5 min
Why we need consequences for being wrogn
Was a secret cabal of Satan-worshiping, cannibalistic pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring about to be exposed and...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 7, 2021
- 7 min
The World Happiness Report and the secret sauce of Scandinavia
Imagine a poll of every country in the entire world where someone goes to random citizens and asks them to rate their happiness on a...
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Dan Connors
- Jan 2, 2021
- 4 min
An Outsiders Guide to Humans- how an autistic person makes sense of the rest of us
An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are Camilla Pang 2020 Camilla Pang was diagnosed...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 31, 2020
- 5 min
College- good investment or money down the toilet?
We are throwing more and more money and bright young minds into the confusing cesspool that is today's higher education system, and what...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 23, 2020
- 4 min
Normalcy Bias- the Pandemic's biggest killer
When the Titanic hit an iceberg and started sinking, the people aboard were shocked. Most of them were in denial that this grand ship,...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 10, 2020
- 12 min
Who are the suckers who fall for self-deceptions? We are. Cognitive biases part 4
Does the truth matter? Which is better- an ugly truth or a pretty lie? Sometimes it's better for everybody if the truth is ugly enough...
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Dan Connors
- Dec 2, 2020
- 11 min
Why are we lying to ourselves? Cognitive biases part 3
"Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be...
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Dan Connors
- Nov 29, 2020
- 9 min
Cognitive biases Part 2- pulling back the curtain on why our brains lie to us.
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works Our brains lie to...
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Dan Connors
- Nov 25, 2020
- 9 min
Why we lie to ourselves- Cognitive Biases Part 1
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the...
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Dan Connors
- Nov 20, 2020
- 5 min
Lotteries- a pocket full of hope but poison for mental and financial health.
State lotteries are a complicated source of joy, pain, education funding, hope, and disappointment. 45 of the 50 United States now have...
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Dan Connors
- Nov 6, 2020
- 6 min
Blue Mind- how just being near water heals you
Blue Mind: The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected,...
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Dan Connors
- Oct 27, 2020
- 4 min
Mental health through your nose and skin
While writing my one and only novel so far, I dove into the world of aromatherapy. It became an important part of my plot, and I learned...
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Dan Connors
- Sep 1, 2020
- 5 min
Goals, goal setting, and still enjoying the now.
So today is the last day of my original weight loss challenge. I lost nearly 5% of my body weight in 30 days, which is a pretty good...
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Dan Connors
- Jul 30, 2020
- 7 min
Moving the goalposts- how to survive the loud, confusing, ever-changing world of political babble.
The lines have been drawn, and both sides now squares off in a political fight to the death. Ideas, ideologies, and belief systems are...
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Dan Connors
- Jul 19, 2020
- 3 min
What comes next after expanding Medicaid? How do we make the system even better?
On August 4th Missouri votes on whether to be the 38th state to expand Medicaid. By all accounts, this should be a no-brainer. Hundreds...
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Dan Connors
- Jun 29, 2020
- 5 min
The Flo Awards- why commercials work.
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them ...
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Dan Connors
- Jun 19, 2020
- 6 min
Boobs- America's weirdest obsession
What's the deal with America's obsession with boobs? Why have mammary glands become such an important part of fashion, culture,...
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