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I’ve Got a Lot to Learn

A Point of View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On October 13, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Getting the Job Done, Getting Through Life and Work, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Mental Health, Psychology, Work-Life

I’ve got a lot to learn. In fact, I’ve got more things to learn than time remaining in my life to learn about them. I learn new things every day. The learning process, for me, never stops. In my occupation as a social psychologist, I routinely read about the new research in my area. I […]

Another View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On October 13, 2020

Thinking one knows everything about everything, or even everything about one thing, is usually a sign that the know it all person is badly mistaken. There are always more things to learn and those at the top of their professions, or specialities, know that. There are people who believe they know just enough to get […]

Ghost Notes

A Point of View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On September 17, 2020

Category: Careers, Getting the Job Done, Jury Consultants, Litigation Consultants, Litigation Tips, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Psychology, Trial Consultants, Trial Consulting

I’ve been thinking recently about how one ever demonstrates that nothing happened because something did happen. Specifically, with regard to the protests over police shootings, police abuse, etc., how does one demonstrate that new policies make a difference? The difference is noticed only when nothing happens. Undoubtedly, most police officer shootings happen because the officer […]

Another View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On September 17, 2020

Category: Careers, Getting the Job Done, Jury Consultants, Litigation Consultants, Litigation Tips, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Psychology, Trial Consultants, Trial Consulting

David’s reference to ghost notes is quite impressive! Ghost notes are important to me, as a bass player. They are place holders, serving to keep the rhythm while not making a discernable musical sound. On the thick strings of a bass guitar, ghost notes sound like a mini cymbal, leading the way to the playing […]

Strange Days

A Point of View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On September 3, 2020

Category: Business Frustrations, Business personalities, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Getting the Job Done, Giving Back, Growing Old is Not for Sissies, Life Outside of Work, Litigation Consultants, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Psychology, Small Business Success, Work-Life

Melissa is the Beatle fan(atic) in the family but I’m borrowing from the lyrics of her Fab 4 Fav, John Lennon, with this post. “Nobody told me there’d be days like these…” Nobody told us, because nobody (or well, only a few) imagined how 2020 would progress. So, here we are carrying on while the […]

Another View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On September 3, 2020

I’m thrilled to read David’s quote from a John Lennon song, “Nobody Told Me,” released posthumously in 1984 on the “Milk and Honey” album. At the time the song was written (1980), John Lennon is said to have believed the world had lost its course. John Lennon was murdered in 1980 but, had he lived […]

Reactions to lipstick

A Point of View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On July 28, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Common Courtesy, Getting Through Life and Work, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Research, Mental Health, Psychology

As a social psychologist, I am almost always observing human behavior. Call it an occupational hazard or whatever else you want, but I enjoy watching people and their reactions to everyday experiences. One of the most fun things I enjoy observing is the way men react to women’s lipstick. I, like many women, enjoy wearing […]

Another View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On July 28, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Common Courtesy, Getting Through Life and Work, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Research, Mental Health, Psychology

I have never analyzed this aspect of human behavior. I’ve just found the lipstick to be sticky so I didn’t really like how it felt. Beyond that, I always figured coming home with lipstick was a dangerous and risky activity. This blog appears to give me permission to be more like Buddy. He taught me, […]

Pie Power

A Point of View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On July 14, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Common Courtesy, Entrepreneurship, Getting the Job Done, Getting Through Life and Work, Giving Back, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Marketing your Business, Mental Health, Psychology, Small Business Success, Work-Life

John Lennon wrote a great song called “Power to the People.” Norman Vincent Peale wrote many books about the “power of positive thinking.” There are a lot of phrases, movements, and other social issues related to power. But, until recently, I had never considered Pie Power. What is Pie Power? Pie Power is my term […]

Another View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On July 14, 2020

Pie Power – an excuse to bring a few smiles in turbulent times. And, the times were turbulent when we (I should say when Melissa) conceived of the Pie Power pandemic loosening campaign. Loosening of the restrictions, that is. (Then the world got more turbulent; perhaps more pies are now needed.) The tensions in the […]

Train the old dog

A Point of View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On July 9, 2020

Category: Business Frustrations, Business personalities, Careers, Getting the Job Done, Getting Through Life and Work, Jury Consultants, Life Outside of Work, Litigation Consultants, Litigation Research, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Mental Health, Psychology, Small Business Success, Workplace Technology

The last 3 months of pandemic restrictions have caused many of us to learn new tricks. I have thought many times of the adage, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” Either that is wrong, or many of us aren’t really old, or aren’t really dogs. I’ve spoken with many people, not dogs, in […]

Another View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On July 9, 2020

Many people are more comfortable doing things the way they have always done them. These types of people usually prefer routine over novelty. For example, they order the same food every time they go to a restaurant; they return to the same place repeatedly when they go on an outing, such as to the beach, […]

Dr. John C. Brigham

A Point of View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On July 7, 2020

Category: Careers, Getting Through Life and Work, Jury Consultants, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Partnerships, Psychology, Trial Consultants

I have been planning to write this post for a long time. Today is the day. As I mentioned in my previous post, my major professor is Dr. John C. “Jack” Brigham. As hard as it is for me to believe, I met Jack in 1980, 40 years ago, when I was trying to decide […]

Another View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On July 7, 2020

Category: Careers, Getting Through Life and Work, Jury Consultants, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Partnerships, Psychology, Trial Consultants

One never knows the future impact of making connections. Jack has been a great mentor to Melissa, and others, for a long time. In the academic world, these connections are like family trees. I didn’t always know that, but I learned it years ago by getting to know Jack and many others in Melissa’s psychology […]

Make Your Own Luck

A Point of View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On July 2, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Careers, Common Courtesy, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Getting the Job Done, Getting Through Life and Work, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Marketing your Business, Partnerships, Psychology, Small Business Success

I don’t consider myself to be “lucky.” I’ve never won the lottery, well, maybe $4 at a time. And, while I know I’m “fortunate” in many ways, “lucky” isn’t how I’d describe it. I work hard, and have always done so, through school and in business. This week has been a week to reflect on […]

Another View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On July 2, 2020

David is one of the smartest people I know. That’s one reason I like him! Even when David was a teenager and recent high school graduate, he had the intelligence, not to mention foresight, to introduce himself to the President of Jacksonville University on, as it turns out, his first day on campus. Call it […]

Racial Attitudes in America

A Point of View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On June 30, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Careers, Getting Through Life and Work, Giving Back, Jury Consultants, Life Outside of Work, Litigation Consultants, Litigation Research, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Mental Health, Psychology, Trial Consultants

Racial Attitudes in America is a scholarly book published in 1972 and written by Dr. John C. “Jack” Brigham. Dr. Brigham is not only one of the most highly regarded social psychologists in the world, he is my major professor. (For non academic readers of this post, a major professor is the primary professor of […]

Another View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On June 30, 2020

Little did I know, when I met Melissa, how immersed in the world of psychology, specifically social psychology, I would become. It has been quite an education, and a positive one at that! I took psychology 101, and another psychology course or two in college; more in grad school. But, my real psychological education has […]

Changes aren’t permanent, but change is

A Point of View

David H. Fauss, M.S.M.

On June 25, 2020

Category: Business personalities, Careers, Common Courtesy, Getting the Job Done, Growing Old is Not for Sissies, Life Outside of Work, Magnus, Magnus Insights, Magnus Research, Mental Health, Psychology, Work-Life, Workplace Technology

The title to this post is taken from a line in the Rush song, Tom Sawyer (1981, Moving Pictures). “He knows changes aren’t permanent, But change is…” I’m hopeful that, by the time this post is published, we are all adjusting to a new normal. As I write it, we do not know what that […]

Another View

Melissa Pigott, Ph.D.

On June 25, 2020

This is the last in the long list of posts David and I have written about the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Hooray! I, like everyone else, will be ecstatic to be able to move on with my life as soon as possible. Along these lines, I believe it will be important for all of us […]

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