Tag Archives: mind

Squash Self-Doubt, Find Your Confidence

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 [...]

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A Beautiful Mind

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 [...]

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The Subconcious Brain - Who is Minding the Mind?

August 2, 2007 – 12:32 am

From New York Times.
In a recent experiment, psychologists at Yale altered people’s judgments of a stranger by handing them a cup of coffee. The study participants had bumped into a laboratory assistant, who was holding textbooks, a clipboard, papers and a cup of hot or iced coffee — and asked for a hand with the [...]

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