Where do I start?

I have so much to cover, so much to tell you, that I don't even know where to begin.  The last few months have been a whirlwind of learning for me. I learned about others, learned about myself, learned about strengths, weaknesses, conscious knowledge, unconscious knowledge and just all kinds of great stuff that I have been storing away in my little nut house, waiting for the day when I should share my nuts with you.

Well today is the day where I begin to dole them out.

I feel as though I have learned more about human behavior in the last 18 months than I learned in my previous 48 1/2 years of life. 

I have always been a scientist-type. To every person that would listen, I would shun the psychologists, dogging them for their contrived experiments and backfitted data. It's about the integrals and the derivatives and the standard deviations and the regression to the mean I would say! The psychologists and psychiatrists are the ones that are nuts! Take your pigeons and stuff them...

But these days, science and psychology mesh more than ever. Brain scans allow us to see real-time the effects of stimuli on our brains.  The things we feel and do are all related to our brain functions and in fact, it is quite scientific and plenty "statisticky" enough for me to get involved.  And I can apply all these things to almost every facet of my being - whether it's in developing and nurturing relationships with family members, mentoring young folks, or improving my poker and basketball games...even my exercise routine is related to how I think and my mental "game".

If I knew what I know now, just might have opted for psychology....of course, then, I probably wouldn't know what a correlation coefficient was or how neon laser works.  Or would I?

It's all good though. 

This is my plan: I am going to introduce you to how we learn and how we become experts at something. Then I am going to talk about emotion and its role in your life.  Then I am going to talk about when emotions are bad, when they are good, and most importantly, how to control them when they are bad.  Because if you can solve this one little piece of your puzzle, you will be far more successful and happier in your life.  How do I know? Because I see the effects of this knowledge and of emotion every single day of my life.  And so do you -  you just don't know it.

Coming very soon: How we learn.  Stay tuned.