On this page, you’ll find a link to all the papers/series I have posted on this website. I’ve listed them in chronological order by when they were written, starting with the most recent. Meaning, if I wrote the paper in 2008, but didn’t publish it as a series until 2013, it’s listed as written in 2008. For series that span more than one month (there are at least a few), I’ve still listed it under the month for which it began. Below each paper/series, I’ve included a description/summary. As I write new series, I’ll continue to update this page.
07/2015
Parenting Without Borders: Surprising Lessons Parents Around the World Can Teach Us: Introduction, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Conclusion
This series explores Christine Gross-Loh’s book on parenting in different cultures.
01/2014
13 Weirdest Interview Questions You’ll Hear in 2014: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
In this series, I answer the 13 weirdest interview questions you’ll hear in 2014 as chosen by Mashable.
10/2013
Choices and Illusions: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
This series explores Eldon Taylor’s book, Choices and Illusions: How Did I Get Where I Am, and How Do I Get Where I Want to Be?
09/2013
Twenty Online Talks That Will Change Your Life: Part 1, Part 2
This two-part series examines The Guardian’s list of twenty online talks that could change your life. I share my thoughts on some of the talks that I’ve seen.
08/2013
Rebranding the Liberal Arts: Part 1, Part 2,
This series explores the possibility of rebranding the Liberal Arts to make it more appealing to those not already inclined to improve their ‘general intellectual capacities.’
05/2013
The Power of Habit: Part 1a, Part 1b, Part 2, Part 3a, Part 3b
This series explores the three sections of Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit.
05/2013
What Money Can[‘t] Buy: Part 1a, Part 1b, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
This series is meant to aid in considering the opinions espoused by Michael Sandel’s book about morality and markets. As I read a new chapter, I contemplate some of the topics by writing about them.
03/2013
Religion, Spirituality, and Public Administration: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
The central theme of the five articles summarized is that there is an undeniable hole in the literature of religion and public administration. Most of the articles make it clear that there is a difference between religion and spirituality, but maintain that these two concepts are very closely related. In this paper, the articles are summarized in chronological order and contrasted with each other throughout. Following the summaries is a brief discussion of some of the similarities and differences.
01/2013
List of Biases in Judgment and Decision-Making: Sunk Costs, Loss Aversion, Endowment Effect, Planning Fallacy, Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, Gambler’s Fallacy, Fundamental Attribution Error, Overconfidence Effect, Halo Effect, Primacy/Recency Effect(s), Functional Fixedness, Status Quo Bias, Hindsight Bias, The Contrast Effect, Ways for Avoiding, Top Ways for Avoiding,
This is one of the series that I think is the most important. I detailed many cognitive biases that affect our ability to make decisions. While detailing some of the research on these biases, I also included ways to avoid the biases. In the last two posts in the series, I collected all the “ways” these biases can be avoided. The second last post is a restatement of all the “ways” from the posts and the last post is where I filtered those “ways” into categories.
01/2013
Top Posts of 2012: Best of Genuine Thriving, Best Posts Written, Best Posts of Jeremiah Stanghini’s Blog
In this series, I looked at the data for Genuine Thriving to see which posts garnered the most page views (in total), as I was transitioning to a new domain. I also looked at those posts that garnered the most page views for 2012. Lastly, I looked at those posts that garnered the most page views on the new domain.
12/2012
If I were the CEO of CNN…: Part 1, Part 2
Since I just finished up a course on strategy, I thought I’d use some of the tools I learned about to analyze CNN’s current situation. Keeping in mind that this is meant to be a cursory or 30,000-foot view, as I didn’t do a great deal of research, (which is what would need to be done to have a thorough analysis).
06/2012
Social Entrepreneurship & Externalities: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
This aim of this paper is to answer two main questions: (1) are externalities essential to the understanding of social entrepreneurship? (2) are the economic theories of externalities used in the professional understanding of social entrepreneurship? To answer these questions, the definitions of social entrepreneurship and externalities are explored, along with the different categories of externalities. There is also a short examination of the different solutions to externalities. Following this, an analysis of the intersection of the two concepts (social entrepreneurship and externalities) is conducted, the results of which return answers of “yes” to both of the main questions of this paper.
07/2011
What’s on my iPod: Songs, Lectures, Podcasts, Lectures/Podcasts, Lectures (2),
On one of my trips across the US (by car), I detailed some of the things I included on my iPod for the trip. One of the posts (Podcasts) didn’t survive the transition to this new website. For the other posts (lectures, lectures/podcasts, and lectures (2)), I wrote about the things I learned.
06/2011
Who I’m Following on Twitter: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8,
Way back when I started tweeting in June (of 2011), I thought it’d be fun to continuously keep an updated list of all the people I follow on twitter and why. As you’ll see in Part 8, I stopped doing this quite some time ago.
05/2011
American Public Policy: Economics, Campaign Finance & Elections, Education, Food, Healthcare,
In this series, I offered ideas/suggestions for American Public Policy on a given topic. In most cases, I incorporated outside resources (usually something academic) in helping to make my point.
04/2011
Psi Phenomena: The Scientific Evidence for…: Telepathy, Clairvoyance, Precognition, Psychokinesis, Distant Healing
In this series, I review some of the scientific evidence of “The Big Five” of psi phenomena. Part of the purpose of this series was to show that there is scientific evidence for these phenomenon. A secondary purpose was to help demystify some of these ‘normal’ human abilities.
04/2011
The “Real” Purpose of TV (& Movies): Entertainment, Escapism, and Employment; Education, Inspiration, and Storytelling
In Part 1 of this series, I explore the possibility that TV is meant merely as a form of entertainment, escapism, or employment. In Part 2, I step back and explore the idea that maybe TV & movies are also forms of education, inspiration, and storytelling.
01/2011
Where on the Internet Is Jeremiah Stanghini: January 2011, November 2012, June 2016,
In this series, I detail some of the places you’re most likely to find me on the internet (including places like Twitter and LinkedIn).
06/2009
A Brief Overview of Shamanism: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
In this paper, I will explore the history of shamanism along with the origins of the word shaman. I will identify varying definitions of what it means to be a shaman and explain some of the different roles that a shaman may carry out. I will identify how some shamans have lost their roles through the development of political/social stratification. I will also examine how it is that one becomes a shaman and have a small dialogue with regard to schizophrenia.
03/2009
Spiritual Development of Frogs: Part 1, Part 2
The prompt for the paper was for students to ‘construct our own synthetic model of spiritual development that integrated/incorporated two or more traditional or psychology models.’
03/2009
Fishing: A Universal Therapeutic Skill: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
This paper will give a brief summary of metaskills, followed by what is proposed to be the metaskill present during individual therapy, couples’ therapy, and group therapy – fishing. There will be examples of fishing in the three kinds of therapy to support this idea. There will also be implications for possible research of fishing as it relates to mindfulness, transpersonal psychology, and massage therapy.
12/2008
Transcendence and Belongingness: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
This paper will give a brief summary of Abraham Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs,’ with a focus on ‘love needs’ – more explicitly – belongingness. There will also be a brief summary of transpersonal psychology. In particular, there will be a description of a transpersonal experience, namely, transcendence. Lastly, there will be connections made showing there are transpersonal elements to belongingness. Specifically, in some variations of transcendence, one feels a sense of belongingness.
12/2008
Scripture Scrapbook: A Collection of Useful Scriptures for Therapy and/or Spiritual Guidance: Primal Religions, Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity
The purpose of the paper was to collect quotes from scriptures of the various world religions that I could use with clients/patients when I became a therapist. Of course, I didn’t go on to become a therapist, but the quotes are still very useful.
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