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Vacation adventure continues to the Al Wathba Resort “Will they stop for Burger Kings?”     I asked my fellow prisoner.    “I would like a Whopper, French fries and a milk shake or a Coke.”    He smiled almost laughed. We were riding in the back of the prison transport vehicle like we had  ridden in to the central court building the week before and I had ridden in from the RECEPTION building with the black hood over my head the week before and then to the Kahlifa Jail in the middle of the night on the 22 nd . Both of us were wearing handcuffs on our wrists and shackles on our ankles.    The handcuffs were uncomfortable.    The shackles caused razor sharp cutting pain still.    I had not learned how to move my feet or legs and not cause pain every time I moved with them on my ankles yet. The transport vehicle was the size of a small SUV.    The driver’s and one passenger front compartment was se...

Aging and Creativity (3rd 3rd of your life) the following has been one of my most read BLOG among all those I have written in the past 8 or 9 years. Yes we all can be creative, produce creative results, products or ideas ALL of our Lives into our 70s, 80s, 90s and beyond. Here are the slides from Bonnie and Alan's chat at the Athens-Clarke County Library this Thursday evening and some notes for further study or exploration  To see the complete study this slide represents scan down this blog. In 1980 I did a 3 months study searching for a MAGICAL NUMBER of TRAITS of HIGHLY CREATIVE People, much like Stephen Covey's study that produced his 7 Habits of Highly Successful People.  I finally chose 32 that were most commonly written about by experts in Creative Thinking and Creativity and have used them around the world with over 300,000 people, a few to many at a time in my audiences.  About 10 years ago I added an additional 20 traits from the work...

Thinking Style Preference, Behavior Pattern(s) & Value Systems Who Might We BE? My experiences with STYLES instruments from SOLAT to KAI to Gregorc, to Kobe to Right Brain / Left Brain, etc. since 1976 does not match completely with all the descriptions. There are other quizzes, tests, exercises, questionnaires that deal with BEHAVIOR and other aspects of HUMAN PERSONALITY than the SHAPES/figure do. D-I-S-C (over 100 different versions sold around the world now) was initially created by William Marston from University of New York (not the right university...my memory is fuzzy this morning) from his studies and book... THE EMOTIONS OF NORMAL PEOPLE. He studied over 3,000 of his patients and students to develop his 8 variable model. His doctoral student, Walter Clarke created the first quiz version using only 4 variables: Dominance Influence  Steadiness Compliance  The quiz consists of 24 groups of 4 terms. We are asked to ch...