PSYCHOLOGY OUTSIDE THE BOX

Mi siento muy… excited about this topic.

I was born in a galaxy far, far away. I WISH…but actually it was Italy. My family moved to North America when I was five. My name is FIORE which means "flower" in Italian, but I am a MALE.

In many parts of the world, being bilingual is common-place and not something unusual. Any young child can become bilingual as long as she receives plenty of exposure and guidance in BOTH languages. A couple of hours experience a week in the second language is not enough. Many adults also learn second and third languages, so age is no excuse for failing to learn a new language.

Here is a start to learning Italian which is one of the languages of love or AMORE. I love you with all my heart...ti amo con tutto il mio cuore.

Love at first sight can happen any day, anywhere, and any time. It's the feeling you get when you don't want the moment to end because you feel a connection with another person that you haven't felt before. TV, movies, magazines, music—like to promote the notion of love at first sight. We've been trained to expect love to strike like lightning quick and hot.

A 2017 survey of over 5,000 single adults found that four in 10 of them have had a love at first sight experience. So we can accept that the experience of love at first sight really and truly happens, to men and women everywhere. Less clear is exactly what it means. So is love at first sight real or is it all just fairy tale and fantasy? Is it really LOVE at first sight or just LUST?

Sharks represent an example of a common fear that is wildly exaggerated. More people are killed by cows or horses each year than by sharks.

The availability bias is when we believe examples of things that come easily to mind are far more likely to occur than is actually the case.

Media coverage on the Internet or TV makes a big difference. Even movies such as "Jaws" can change our perceptions. When rare events occur, they become very visible to us as they receive heavy coverage by the media. This means we are more likely to recall these events. If something is more easily recalled in memory, we may conclude that it will occur with a higher probability.

Sometimes even the parents of identical twins can't tell the difference.

In 2023, a mother of identical twins in Argentina confessed she felt forced to take her 6-week old infants to the local police station for fingerprint comparison because she couldn't tell them apart.

Mom had placed a blue ribbon around the wrist of one of the twins but cut it off — and then lost track of their identities when the twins got sick one night. But the police were unable to identify the children and doctors couldn't help either. After several days of confusion, the problem was solved thanks to Argentina's National Registry of Persons.

The mother's Twitter thread went viral after explaining her dilemma, and joking that she won the Best Mom of the Year Award. Her tweet collected over 350,000 likes and over 24,000 retweets. As well, a huge number of other parents admitted having problems trying to identify their own twins.

So if even parents can have difficulty recognizing their own identical twins, will the police and justice system face a similar nightmare during crime investigations?

I recently saw this headline in one edition of Readers Digest. My fitbit heart rate alarm started buzzing like I was having a panic attack. Smarter than Albert Einstein? I DON'T THINK SO: Impossible, absolutely not, no chance, no freeakin way, not in a million years. Not in this universe or anywhere else in the multiverse. In other words, WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. No one messes with my hero and gets away with it, not even Readers Digest. And so my lovely listeners, it's payback time and it's going to get really messy. So bring plenty of protection.

YES THIS IS PSYCHOLOGY.

These tricks might seem extremely difficult to teach, but with the right treats and a bit of patience, it's something you can definitely do. You will need a cat or dog that is reasonably smart. And we must also assume that you are at least as smart as your pet, and preferably smarter. If you can teach a dog how to skateboard, then you can also teach young children proper behavior and discipline. So you can practice on your cat or dog and then try the technique with your children.

Follow these video links to watch the skateboarding bulldog, cats that pee and poo in the toilet and a goldfish that drives an aquarium on wheels. Awesome stuff.