Personality Blog

Nothing lasts forever. That is what we are told and it is true of dead romances as surely as it is true of winter storms and spring blooms.

As I mentioned in part one, leaders can become myopic, focused on their perception of the perfect employee and quite often that perfect employee “looks” much like the person making the hiring decision.

It isn’t the world we live in that creates our distress, it is the world we create and the actor (you, me) who stands on the stage.

Anger is a healthy and perfectly normal human emotion. It can motivate us to take action, feel empowered, or stand up for ourselves when we are being treated unfairly.

Would you like to makes tons of money, drive a low slung sports car and visit exotic locations? Perhaps your key to the good life is writing mystery stories. The best writers are unlikely to need help from the President’s stimulus package.

Do you envy Captain Jack Sparrow and wish you had his freedom from the mindboggling technology of the 21st Century. Would you rather set sail and challenge the wind, the sea and various monsters?

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is the 8th personality disorder in our series. You don’t want to miss any of them. People with OCPD have impossibly high standards for themselves and others.

Recently I read a “cool” list, written by successful author Stephen King. I began pondering what makes someone cool. Alas, I discovered that, “cool” is impossible to define.