The four steps, when used in “self-expression” mode, work like this: To observe without evaluation, judgment, or analysis, To express feelings which these observations evoke, To express needs connected with these feelings, (optional) To make a specific request of another person to help meet an unmet need, and to enrich life of everyone involved. Essential [...]
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An interesting article in the WSJ today about how belief in God is not innate. Because humans are hard-wired for religion, it must be reformed rather than refuted to better fit the modern world. People are genetically preprogrammed to be pious because it confers a selective advantage that enhances reproductive success. If it were so [...]
Yeah like we didn’t know that already! Any man in the world will confirm that. But it’s even more quantifiable than you might think. We’re talking about actual distances to objects here. Sexy girls may be further away than they appear. The participants who had been given pretzels to eat during the experiment reported feeling [...]
I’m so glad we live in an age where people are doing large scale psychology studies, trying to discern the facts about our behaviour which our perceptions mask. This has fed into the mainstream thanks to books like Nudge and Freakonomics, and is being used politically to great effect (viz Obama). (There are fears that [...]
How we consider our position in time effects our outlook on life. Much like our use of language, really. More confirmation that the world is what we perceive it to be, and very little else. As Hamlet says, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healthy_take_on_time.html
A great video from Avaaz about helping America be mindful of its unique and hard-won position in the world: http://www.avaaz.org/en/for_all_of_us/?cl=139960524&v=2321
