Category Archives: Thinking Skills

Don’t Be a Nowhere Man

By Chuck Dymer | Published: May 18, 2010

Brilliant Blogger Jan Harness produced yet another interesting post yesterday–Creativity Tips: Forget Your Phone. She wrote about how she had forgotten her cell phone and that allowed her “multi-tasking brain” to breathe a sigh of relief. She then mentioned that once-upon-a-time, in the days before cell phones and mobile phones, many homes had but a [...]

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Silence is Golden, part two

By Chuck Dymer | Published: May 17, 2010

A few years back I participated in a marketing workshop conducted by Seth Godin. It was held at what was then his business space: a loft north of New York City next to a commuter line. About every twelve minutes or so, a train would roar by and Godin would stop speaking, sometimes in mid-sentence. [...]

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Silence is Golden, part one

By Chuck Dymer | Published: May 14, 2010

I was in London the week all U.K. flights were cancelled due to the ash caused by the eruption of an Icelandic volcano. I’ve been to London many times and this time I was struck by how much more quiet it was without 3000 jet take-offs and landings each day. It was amazing. Today I [...]

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Heavy Duty

By Chuck Dymer | Published: February 19, 2010

Here’s the title of a recent article by Natalie Angier in The New York Times: “Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally.” The point of the article is this – we embody, we incorporate, we flesh-out the abstractions we think about. As the French philosopher Merleau-Ponty put it: we are our bodies. When people are [...]

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The Pierogi Perusal

By Chuck Dymer | Published: February 9, 2010

My grandmother made a mean pierogi. Her best were the potato pierogies, slathered in butter and seasoned with dill. A pierogi is a semi-circular dumpling made from unleavened dough. Traditionally they are filled with potatoes, ground meat, or mushrooms and cabbage. If made as a dessert, they can be filled with different fruits and rolled [...]

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Thinking About Abstinence

By Chuck Dymer | Published: February 3, 2010

This was the lead-in for a front-page article in The Kansas City Star: “Abstinence approach allowing students to list the pros and cons of sexual activity shows promising results, study finds.” Traditional approaches to abstinence moralize; the new approach invites students to think. Not surprisingly, the new approach was more effective than the traditional approach. [...]

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