"Life is a matter of really tough choices." ~ Joe Biden
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Posted:Feb 20, 2024 9:06 am
Last Updated:Feb 24, 2024 8:32 am 5045 Views
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"Why Honesty Is Often Difficult
Telling the truth is important, even when it hurts"
'When feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual. But it's no less important.
Sometimes telling the truth is difficult, because it can mean sacrificing something one genuinely wants or needs.
It's easy to convince oneself that a small lie is harmless, but cheating is a slippery slope.
“Could you describe a time when you told the truth and it hurt you?”
I wish I could say I came up with this interview question. It gets right to the heart of why honesty is often difficult, which is that telling the truth can mean sacrificing something you genuinely want or need.
But I’d be lying if I did.
Right now, talking about honesty might feel old-fashioned. The pandemic and its ripple effects of anxiety and stress may seem like a license to prioritize our wants and needs over our oughts and shoulds. In particular, more than a few students and parents I’ve spoken with in recent months told me that until this crisis is behind us, it should be okay to cheat a little on homework and exams. And nationwide, reports of cheating at college since the advent of the pandemic have skyrocketed.
New research shows that, indeed, students who report higher levels of distress, sadness, and other negative emotions tend to adopt more generous attitudes toward plagiarism, which in turn predicts actually committing more plagiarism.
In other words, when you’re feeling besieged, doing the right thing is even harder than usual.
Yet I think it’s just as important. At Character Lab, we include honesty as a strength of heart, in the same family as kindness and gratitude. Like other strengths of heart, honesty helps us relate to other people in positive ways. But when it comes to forming judgments about other people, research suggests that nothing is more important than moral character.
It is perhaps for this reason that a student I know well went out of her way to show me her transcript from last semester. With pride, she pointed out her statistics grade—which was noticeably lower than the others. “It was an incredibly hard class,” she explained. “And so many students cheated, working together on the exams even though the professor told us not to. I did my own work. The grade sucks, but I did the right thing.”
Don’t underestimate the influence of stress on every aspect of behavior, including honesty. Decisions to do the right thing are more difficult when you feel like you’re struggling.
Do raise the topic of honesty with the young people in your life. Tell a story about a time when you told the truth and it hurt you—and perhaps a time when you failed to be truthful and regretted it. And be honest about being honest. It can be hard to hold fast to our principles—yet imperative that we try.' Angela Duckworth Ph.D., from Psychology Today Posted February 1, 2022
If you need ME to give you examples of Biden's record of perjurious, fallacious actions over the course of his career, then I suggest you NOT post a response, as they are well documented and plentiful.
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Where's BOND, James Bond, when you need him?
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Posted:Feb 15, 2024 10:43 am
Last Updated:Feb 17, 2024 12:56 pm 5325 Views
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Russia's apparent pursuit of a nuclear space-based weapon has stirred a frenzy in Washington — and raised a flurry of questions among a world...is it an ACTUAL 'NUKE', which would be in violation of the United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1967? Or, a nuclear-powered satellite carrying electronic weapons, which could cause havoc on Earth by crippling satellites that drive everything from weather forecasting and phone calls to wars and the global economy?
Well, Bond took care of the 'Goldeneye' with the help of the pretty Russian 'programmer', Natalya Simonova (played by GORGEOUS Polish actress Izabella Scorupco!!!). Hopefully, His Majesty will dispatch the 2024 version of BOND to eliminate this NEW threat...
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"Don't Let The Ol' Man In"...
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Posted:Feb 6, 2024 7:36 am
Last Updated:Feb 6, 2024 7:42 am 5197 Views
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Don’t let the old man in
I wanna leave this alone
Can’t leave it up to him
He’s knocking on my door
And I knew all of my life
That someday it would end
Get up and go outside
Don’t let the old man in
Many moons I have lived
My body’s weathered and worn
Ask yourself how would you be
If you didn’t know the day you were born
When he rides up on his
And you feel that cold bitter wind
Look out your window and smile
Don’t let the old man in..." Toby Keith Covel, July 8th 1961 - February 5th, 2024
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Rest in PEACE, Adele Springteen...
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Posted:Feb 1, 2024 4:46 pm
Last Updated:Feb 2, 2024 6:17 pm 4403 Views
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We hardly knew ya! But the "Boss's" mother died on Wednesday at the age of 98, and it was revealed that Mrs. Springsteen had been suffering with Alzheimer's for about ten years...Prayers and condolences to Bruce and his sisters and their extended families!
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The Drunkard and the Pig...
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Posted:Jan 26, 2024 2:07 am
Last Updated:Mar 20, 2024 7:25 am 4335 Views
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'It was early last December,
As near as I remember,
I was walking down the street in tipsy pride;
No one was I disturbing
As I lay down by the curbing,
And a pig came up and lay down by my side.
As I lay there in the gutter
Thinking thoughts I shall not utter,
A lady passing by was heard to say:
" You can tell a man who boozes
By the company he chooses " ;
And the pig got up and slowly walked away....'
ANONYMOUS
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RIP David Soul...
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Posted:Jan 5, 2024 5:11 pm
Last Updated:Jan 6, 2024 2:26 am 3674 Views
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David Soul who played 'Richard Hutchinson', or 'Hutch' in the TV series 'Starsky& Hutch' passed away Thursday at the age of 80 in England where he had moved and become a British citizen in the 1990's. He was married five time and had six . RIP Mr. David Soul...
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How do you catch a Polar Bear?
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Posted:Jan 5, 2024 4:50 am
Last Updated:Jan 5, 2024 12:40 pm 3733 Views
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It's a BIT tricky but it CAN be done, and all it takes is an AX and a CAN OF PEAS! First you take the Ax and chop a hole in the ICE, then you use the Ax to open the can of peas. Then you sprinkle the peas from the can around the hole in the ice, and when the Polar Bear comes up to take a pea, you kick him in the ice hole...
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Any Cleveland Brown fans in the audience?
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Posted:Dec 28, 2023 6:58 pm
Last Updated:Dec 29, 2023 5:00 pm 2954 Views
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They're putting a hurting on the NY Jets tonight, with Joe Flacco (Wasn't that the name of the guy Keanu Reeves played in the movie "The Replacements"? Just kidding that was "Footsteps Falco") at QB, who was sitting at home watching NFL games on Sundays last month. He might take them to the Super Bowl this year...
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