Steve Haffner What Were You Thinking? The Regrettable Amygdala Hijack How to reduce those unmistakable "What was I thinking?" moments and make better decisions before they are hijacked by your lizard brain.
Steve Haffner The Irrational Cognitive Distortion of Catastrophizing We are facing many challenges in the U.S. and the world. Will one of them become a major catastrophe? Pick one - COVID pandemic, global w...
Steve Haffner The psychological benefits of humor and laughter Have the events of 2020 put you in a negative funk of doom and despair? Has your demeanor taken a downward plunge? If so, I hope this art...
Steve Haffner Using the right instrument for the job How and when to use tools effectively. When I was 10 years old, the sprocket on my bike needed fixing so my buddy and I decided to fix it...
Steve Haffner Sharper Shopping How to be a more skillful shopper. You're a lousy shopper. You buy things you don't need. You spend too much. It takes you too long. You ...
Steve Haffner Re-thinking a bias for action The motto of the indecisive: Don’t just do something, stand there! While indecisiveness is a problem, sometimes “standing there” really i...
Steve Haffner Doing the Two Step - Second Order Thinking Many years ago I made a decision to change jobs. My current job was no longer a good fit and I knew that Company X was hiring and that I ...
Steve Haffner CSC-20 - The Other Contagion This pandemic stinks. I’m not referring to COVID-19, although it obviously stinks as well, but to the Corrosive Social Contagion pandemi...
Steve Haffner Rack, Rest, Repeat - a Method for Creative problem Solving When was the last time you saw something that made you say, “Hey, that’s clever?” Or cool? Or creative? Probably very recently. Every da...
Steve Haffner Ancient Brains Vs. a Modern Pandemic Improving how we consume information in a time of crisis We are being bombarded with an overwhelming volume of information related to the...
