How are we modeling for young people how to grow old? Most of my days are spent with Emerging Adults, who are in a Season of Life that doesn’t typically lend itself to taking a long view of their existence. However, within the discipline of human performance, where topics include nutrition, the dimensions of wellness, …
AI Literacy
Are students cheating? Circling back to the question presented in the post AI (Artificial Intelligence), I hope to offer sound reasoning behind the suggestion to teach Emerging Generations how to cultivate AI Literacy. And perhaps it’s not just the young who need to learn how to navigate the current world we live in because they …
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Are students cheating? This inquiry is only one of many conundrums being discussed between two educators on morning walks. Sometimes the conversation steers itself to deeper issues: How do we handle our own aging selves much less the dynamics of aging parents? But at the beginning of an academic year, as we listen to presentations …
The Great Rewiring
Take a morning walk with me along the out-and-back paved trail near my home and, on a typical day, you will witness a demonstration of what social psychologist Jonathan Haidt names The Great Rewiring. You are aware of this phenomenon, as you see it playing out every day, when you encounter the different generations represented …
Die of Curiosity
Although it happens to everyone, without exception, most people avoid the subject of death. Our culture, as Louise Aronson shares in her book Elderhood, prefers to remove itself from the uncomfortable topic that all life does come to an end. “It’s a rare family in which at least one person doesn’t know how to care …
How You Doin?
For viewers of the 1990s sitcom Friends, Joey Tribbiani altered lives forever with his phrase, “How You Doin?” According to Adrienne Tyler, “Joey shared his ‘foolproof’ technique, in which he would look a woman up and down and say ‘how you doin?’ Rachel and Phoebe were skeptical, but when he tried it on Pheobe, she …
Cows Don’t Give Milk
Two years ago, while browsing social media, the phrase Cows Don’t Give Milk seized my attention, and I wish I knew who to credit for the original posting; however, the note in my phone listed the author as unknown. Fast forward to the present-day rumination on this story and I discover there is an actual …
Let It Go
Long before Queen Elsa belted the song in Disney’s Frozen, the phrase Let It Go was used to encourage people to stop worrying about things that were outside of their control. Perhaps it also implies that a person should consider Movin’ On from something that happened in their past. What’s funny is that I can’t …
Build a Boat
When was the last time hearing the lyrics of a song led you to conduct an internet search to answer the following question: How long does it take to Build a Boat? I’m flabbergasted if that was not an item on your week’s to-do list! (Insert sarcasm here). If you don’t track with the connections …
Looks Easy
Looks Easy! Have you ever made this statement out loud, or at least allowed it to run through your mind as you watched someone perform a task? Perhaps you logged onto the internet to search for a how-to video to make a simple household repair. There are entire networks on cable television and oodles of …
Flourishing @ Life 