You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them
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A report released last week by the Heritage Foundation shows that full-time college students spend less than three hours per day on “education-related activities.” Based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s American Time Use Survey from 2003–2014, during the academic year, the average full-time college student spent only 2.76 hours per day on
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There’s a popular pie chart that’s been going around social media for some time now. It furthers the belief that arguing about politics is always and everywhere a futile endeavor: I agree that most political arguments today—both on and off social media—quickly devolve into angry name-calling. But I think this phenomenon says something more about
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It feels like 1968. How do I know this? Because everyone is saying so. (If you don’t believe me, look at this.) To be fair, there is grounds for the comparison. In 1968, the country was torn by urban violence, civil unrest, and (domestic) terrorism. College campuses were hotbeds and protesting was all the rage.
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After hearing about a woman attempting to start a sex-strike in Chicago, ultimately based on the Ancient Greek play Lysistrata, to end the gun violence, we thought it would be good to dig into the numbers a little bit. We wish we hadn’t. Simply put, Chicago has a massive Black-on-Black murder problem. All of the
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In early July, Pew Research released a report on the election issues most concerning to the general public. Perhaps not surprisingly, the report showed a decided increase in concern about immigration compared to previous election years. Such increases are likely spurred by talk of “building a wall,” the huge waves of migrants that Europe
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