Table of ContentsHuman Intelligence Every once in a while, I read something that knocks my socks off. This time it was Annie Murphy Paul’s piece on Intelligence in the New York Times, “How to Think Outside Your Brain.”If I understood correctly, the rough idea is that the human brain has
That doesnât happen to us. Or does it? How many times a year, or a week even, do we feel like we are getting hit by something, at work or at home, thatâs knocking us more than 5 inches off our mark.
Here in the US, we struggle on so many frontsâjustice, education, election, immigration, infrastructure, prison, jobs, housing, climateâand there is no telling when we will get hit, as individuals or as a nation, with a major destabilizing crisis on any one of these fronts.
We struggle with each other on the best ways to approach any or all of it, based on our core values as individuals. Then we struggle as the groups we clump ourselves into, where we are not 100% alike, but enough so to pit ourselves against the others who are not.
The International Leadership Industry spends about $50 billion/year teaching people authenticity. What does that even mean?What is Authenticity?Here is partial definition from Merriam Webster: 2: not false or imitation : REAL, ACTUAL an authentic cockney accent 3: true to one’s own personality, spirit, or character is sincere and authentic with no pretensionBeing real, actual, our essential, true self.
Research Backed Goal Upgrade Pet Power From:
One study finds that participants who either had their pets with them or only imagined their pet were able to generate more life goals and have more confidence in their ability to achieve these goals than participants without pets. This is Rafael Leonardo, who hit his goal as you can see, And with so many people wondering where their motivation has goneâif pets are good for goals and just about everything else, well then⦠The American Veterinary Medical Association reports:
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And if you happen to be one of the households owning a dogâdonât imagine this will work as well with Cats, Birds, Horsesâtry looking longingly into each otherâs eyes, as studies show that long eye
New Twists on Age
Aging Now A Good Thing
Did you know that aging is a good thing now? Thatâs right, a new study found that 71% of American respondents are not only accepting but embracing aging, now more than ever.
And, 57% consider the pandemic a wake-up call that has turned anti-aging on its head. After all, whatâs the alternative, right? Not something we can ignore as easily as we could before.
Humans have all along been notoriously good at ignoring the one thing that is certain to occur, death. Check out Ernest Beckerâs Pulitzer Prize winning The Denial of Death for how this feature of our human hardwiring has helped us to transcend what would otherwise be such crippling fear that weâd never get anything done.