Stupidity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/stupidity/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:42:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Stupidity Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/stupidity/ 32 32 The Cognitive Dysfunction Epidemic https://mind-at-work.com/cognitive-dysfunction-epidemic/ Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:42:50 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=1034 Have you ever seen an ad for Cognitive Dysfunction (CD) like the ubiquitous Erectile Dysfunction (ED) ads? It might feature a man getting his truck stuck in the mud while the announcer intones, “You’ve learned a thing or two—now it’s time to get your brain working.” Or a man and a woman gazing at each [...]

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]]> Learning from Our Mistakes https://mind-at-work.com/learning-mistakes/ Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:36:06 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=760 Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By this measure, when an approach proves unsuccessful, the “sane “ (intelligent) response is to try another. Why, then, do so many people do the same foolish things over and over?  For example . . . Mothers [...]

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