October 20, 2007 – 2:23 pm
From Good Experience by Mark Hurst.
Chip Conley is CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the world’s second- largest boutique hotel company. After a severe downturn in his business after 9/11, Conley read Abraham Maslow’s works as inspiration for his turnaround plan. It worked: Joie de Vivre is again thriving, and Conley has written a book [...]
October 19, 2007 – 1:37 am
From SharpBrains.
They have put together a selection of the 50 Brain Teasers that people have enjoyed the most in their blog and speaking engagements.
They classify them into attention, memory, pattern recognition and planning, visual workouts and illusions, logic, math puzzles and some fun experiments.
Have a good workout!
October 12, 2007 – 9:39 pm
From CNN by Martha Beck.
Efforts to avoid embarrassment often keep us from imagining, let alone fulfilling, the measure of our destiny. To claim it, we need to develop a mental dimmer switch.
Gilovich and Medvec have found in other studies that, in the long run, people most often regret the things they failed to try, rather [...]
October 12, 2007 – 2:19 pm
From BBC News.
Stuart Baker-Brown, 43, a photographer and writer based in Dorset, was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1996. On World Mental Health Day, he delivers a unique personal insight into how his condition has nurtured his artistic expression.
In the past, schizophrenia has broken my life and taken away many of life’s opportunities, such as work [...]
October 8, 2007 – 8:13 pm
Original article Beware of Garbage Trucks by David J. Pollay.
How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you’re the Terminator, for an instant you’re probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of [...]
October 4, 2007 – 1:24 pm
From Massive Free Education List by JimmyR.com.
Related:
Campus launches YouTube channel. (UC Berkeley)
UC Berkeley is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. Topics range from bioengineering, to peace and conflict studies, to “Physics for [...]
September 20, 2007 – 2:19 pm
From SharpBrains.
Dr. Judith Beck is the Director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Cognitive Therapy: Basics and Beyond.
Her most recent book is The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person.
Cognitive therapy, as [...]