Posts by Dolah Saleh
Orientation of Career Selection
Do you believe that careers are selected from a cause and effect perspective or intention? Do we tend to choose our paths consciously or unconsciously? If our choice of career is the outcome of something that happened (cause) to result in our decision (effect) to pursue a particular line of work, then we might also…
Read Full PostThe Question of Assessment
It is amazing to me how the human mind sometimes works. We plan weddings with much greater attention to detail than we do our own marriages. When we are about to invest a number of years into higher education, we consider the geography and notoriety of the institution almost with more enthusiasm than we do…
Read Full PostThinking Makes It So
It occurs to me that the human tendency to pre-judge makes it challenging for us to remain open–forget accepting–about so much of life! We have pre-decided and thus pre-judged something or someone and there’s no room for editing. In fact, often we dig in our heels and find evidence to support our positions even with…
Read Full PostFinding What We Need
Here’s the thing. These days, whenever we want something, all we need to do is go to google or another search engine and write in the phrase representing our request, right? Next, we wade through the myriad responses that hopefully address our unique concern and we settle on a particular resource, which may or may…
Read Full PostAmerica First in School Shootings
America doesn’t want to be first. At least not in school shootings. But the truth is that we are; there are more school shootings in the United States than anywhere in the world. Our country represents 5 % of the world population and 31% of its mass shooters since 1966. That is not a statistic…
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