"I want to do it but I'm afraid."
"What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid that people won't like me."
"And?"
"And, that's it. I don't want people not to like me."
"Let me let you in on a little secret: If everybody likes you,...

Taking risks raises your anxiety level. It should and has to. No one wants to be rejected.

Whether you are expressing your romantic longings to the person you have pined over for months or you have put your soul and spirit into an audition for the role of your...

Click here to read an original op-ed from the TED speaker who inspired this post and watch the TEDTalk below.

Michael Shermer's TEDTalk, "The Pattern Behind Self-deception" is both groundbreaking and earth-shattering. The neuroscience Shermer cites in his talk is tight, his examples are strong and...

Hey, you.

Yeah, you, let me ask you something: Which one of these two people is smarter?

John, 36, was born on the Upper West Side of Manhattan to parents who were both in the financial services industry. At the age of four, he scored "off the charts" on...

As the new year is upon us and we tear off the last page of our 2012 calendars, many of us tend to pause and look longingly at the possibilities in the year ahead. Some of us turn to New Year's resolutions to try to make the New Year synonymous...

For me, it's about the Christmas Presents they will never get.

It's been a hard time to be a feeling person in America. From the victims of Hurricane Sandy to the vitriol of the Presidential election, our emotions had been battered, beaten and bruised throughout the fall.

Then came...

Watch the TEDTalk that inspired this post.

Sir Ken Robinson's world-renowned talk, "Do Schools Kill Creativity?" which is being featured on The Huffington Post's TEDWeekends represents a seismic shift in global thinking on both creativity and education. The reason this talk has been seen...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

This well-worn expression seems, at first, to make sense. I mean how can you grow and develop as a person if you don't learn from your mistakes? (This begs the question, "How can you learn at all if...

There's an epidemic going on. What do you mean you didn't know? Oh, I see, you were busy looking over at your classmate's paper, that's probably why you didn't notice.

As I was saying: The "cheating epidemic" is upon us. And it is everywhere. From our high schools,...

We all know the three Rs of Education are not cutting it anymore. It's not even a debate. The only question left to ponder is what to do about it.

In a recent article, I suggested spending less (but not no) time on the Three Rs and more...

We -- as a country, as parents, as educators, as guardians of our children's future -- have a job to do.

Our job is to do good, do well, do right by our children and set them up for a life that is bigger, better, and brighter than ours....

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article on here about how imaginative play can change your life. Judging from the comments and feedback I received, many of you out there have strong feelings about the matter. That's good -- no, strike that -- that's great. I...

That's a catchy and bold title for an article, isn't it?

Maybe -- hopefully -- you are sitting there wondering, "What is it? What is this four-letter word that's supposedly going change my life?" Perhaps you are stewing, or rapidly scanning the article to see if you can just...

Actually, a lot, as it turns out.

I started thinking about this during brunch this past weekend when my friend Heidi talked to me about the trials and tribulations of trying to potty-train her 3-year-old son.

"He's just not ready to do it," she said with resignation. "And all the...

A few years ago, a friend of mine, Jason, and I were in a business meeting with some executives at a large, well-respected company when one of the men across the table from us offhandedly called Jason "a risk taker."

Jason asked him, "How am I a risk taker?"

The...

Time is running out. Seriously. I'm not just being an alarmist. I mean it. Right now -- even as you read these words, you are losing time. Stop reading this and get started. Okay, fine if you insist that this article is just too gripping, you can finish reading this...

I recently had two new patients come into my office and ask me how many sessions this "therapy thing" would take to get them "fixed." I was tempted to respond, "This may not be the right place for you." But I didn't. Instead, I explained that from a psychologist's point...

Congratulations. If you are reading this article you've officially made it to the other side of the winter holidays. Give yourself a round of applause with the one functional hand you have left -- you actually can clap with one hand, it just doesn't sound as loud as...

Therapy sessions this time of year tend to sound more like meetings between theatre critics during award season than exchanges between doctor and patient. Regardless of how stable or erratic your life tends to be the other 11 months of the year, there's no avoiding drama in December.

The reason...

There are many ways to add stress to your holiday season. Consider the following five suggestions:

1. Go to as many holiday parties as possible

2. Travel excessively using air, land,and/or sea-based vehicles

3. Drink Olympic amounts of alcohol at all professional holiday events

4. Hang out at malls, superstores...