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Exercise Makes You Smarter

Well, at least aerobic exercise does. To create new neurons and brain connections, “it appears that various growth factors must be carried

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Face Blindness vs. Super Recognizers

Face blindness, or prosopagnosia, affects about 2% of the population. Prosopagnosia comes from the Greek: prosopon, or face, and agnosia, or ignorance.

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PopCap: Perfectionism = Gridlock

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) So I was standing in line the other day watching one of those ubiquitous TVs that are

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Power of Relationships: The Meaning of Gifts

We in America frequently live so far from the edge of true need that we sometimes forget the fundamental importance of relationships

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Life Is How You Look At It, Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone: Your Choice

“One of the reasons I think I’ve placed a high value on life is that my father took his.” This is how

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“Set big goals and own the responsibility for meeting them”

Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach for America, the company that recruits for difficult teaching positions in urban and rural schools, was recently

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Capt. Sullenberger, Flight 1549, and Deliberate Calm

How do humans make good decisions under conditions of intense pressure? How did Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III manage to stay

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PopCap: The Stupid Pursuit of Hyper “Safety,” or What Happens When Chicken Little Is In Charge

(Friday’s Populist Capitalist Blog Post) While I always fasten my safety belt, I understand that life has risks and comes without guarantees.

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Criticism: Friend or Foe?

If we choose to regard anything less than praise as an attack, then we cease to hear anything useful a critic may

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Courageous Acceptance of Personal Responsibility

The willingness to accept responsibility for our actions, to have the moral courage, the steadfastness of character to step up and acknowledge

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Learning to Ring Pavlov’s* Bell Ourselves

Understanding How Social Cues Influence Our Behavior We are always picking up cues from our environment and responding to them, most of

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Beware the Cost of the Middleman!

Understanding Systems and How to Make them Better Maine lobsters have plunged in price from $10 a pound a few years ago