Psychopaths Know The Technical Difference Between Right

There's Only One Thing Harder Than Living In A Home With An Adolescent - And That's Being An Adolescent. The Moodiness, The Volatility, The Wholesale Lack Of Impulse Control, All Would Be Close To Clinical Conditions If They Occurred At Another Point In Life. In Adolescence, They're Just Part Of The Behavioral Portfolio.

Narcissism Is Actually A Clever Guise Adopted To Mask Its Exact Opposite, Which Is A Deep Well Of Self-loathing, A Well Of Low Self-esteem, Rather Than High Self-esteem. This Helps Explain Why Narcissists Are So Sensitive To Criticism, Why Narcissists Tend To Break Into Outrage If They're Criticized, Because Their Self-esteem Is Actually Much More Brittle Than It Seems, And Once They're Challenged, That Mask Falls Apart.

Overspending Is As Certain A Part Of The Holiday Season As Overeating. But Pushing Away From Both The Table And The Cash Register At Least A Little Bit Sooner Can Make The Post-holiday Hangover Hurt A Little Bit Less.

Older Fatherhood Isn't All Bad: Testosterone Rates Drop About 1% Per Year As Men Age, Making Them Less Reactive And More Patient, And A Professionally Established Middle-aged Man Is Likely To Have More Time And Money To Devote To His Kids Than A Twenty-something Who's Just Getting Started.

The Best Thing About Science Is That Hard, Empirical Answers Are Always There If You Look Hard Enough. The Best Thing About Religion Is That The Very Absence Of That Certainty Is What Requires - And Gives Rise To - Deep Feelings Of Faith.