Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bryce Hoffman writes about leadership, strategy, and decision making. Among the many threats to decision making, few are as ...

Working in a Catholic mentoring organization for almost a decade, I have been interested in the idea of rites of passage for years. Simply put, all societies throughout time have had specific cultural ...

Of the many cognitive biases that cloud our decision making, one that business leaders need to be particularly vigilant against is confirmation bias. Confirmation bias refers to our tendency to ...

I'm sure sometimes people wonder, why do I do that? Because, after all, they have prepared over a period of time and they're dressed up in their confirmation robes and everybody's here to celebrate ...

About Christian confirmation, a sacrament or rite of passage in which a baptised person strengthens their relationship with God and becomes a full member of the Christian community. Confirmation is a ...

MUNDELEIN, Ill.(CNA) — Bishop Samuel Aquila of Fargo, N.D., in a recent lecture, examined the sacrament of confirmation and explained his reasons for believing children should receive it before first ...

It is common practice to hear words like I last visited church after confirmation especially among the young people. To some people confirmation is a step of graduating and that is why after getting ...

You walk into your first yoga class. You’re a little insecure about your weight and how your yoga clothes cling to your body, revealing every flaw. You’re nervous about making a fool of yourself.

Modernity, it was once thought, wreaked havoc with religious tradition, rendering centuries-old rituals obsolete. We now know better. Modernity has not only made room for tradition, it has even given ...

Confirmation bias is both a real phenomenon and a self-serving rhetorical bludgeon designed to delegitimize an opponent’s argument when one cannot refute it. In this post, I show how you can ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Suzanne is a content marketer, writer, and fact-checker. She holds a Bachelor of ...