Many people who find SMART Living 365 through Google or other online search engines are looking for information about Smart technologies.  Others might be attracted to the blog thinking it has to do with intelligence or doing the right thing.  Yet, if you stick around and read an article or two, you quickly realize that SMART is actually an acronym for Sustainable-Meaningful-Aware-Responsible and Thankful—and those ideas are what I mainly explore here. Plus, now and then I come across information that ties brain science to awareness.  So when I found a book at the library titled, You Are Not So SMART, how could I not check it out?  My big take-away?  Clearly I am not as smart as I like to think I am (none of us are really!) mainly because who we think we are, our memories, and how we see the world often has very little to do with reality.  Another way of looking at it—believe or like it, or not—we are continually making it up! [Read more…]