Now that we’ve passed laws nearly everywhere…
July 23, 2014 Comments Off on Now that we’ve passed laws nearly everywhere…

The Register

Recent legislation banning the use of handheld phones by drivers had basically no effect on the number of road accidents, according to a new study.

“If it’s really that dangerous, and if even just a fraction of people stop using their phones, we would expect to find some decrease in accidents,” says professor Daniel Kaffine, who worked on the analysis. “But we didn’t find any statistical evidence of a reduction.”
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So, are YOU meeting your goals?
July 17, 2014 Comments Off on So, are YOU meeting your goals?

Psychology Today

One inherent problem with goal setting is related to how the brain works. Recent neuroscience research shows the brain works in a protective way, resistant to change. Therefore, any goals that require substantial behavioural change, or thinking-pattern change, will automatically be resisted. The brain is wired to seek rewards and avoid pain or discomfort, including fear. When the fear of failure creeps into the mind of the goal setter, it becomes a “demotivator,” with a desire to return to known, comfortable behaviour and thought patterns.
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Wondering why the divorce rate is so high?
June 21, 2014 Comments Off on Wondering why the divorce rate is so high?

Thought Catalog

12 Things You Must Say Goodbye To After You Get Married

1. Getting blackout drunk.

No one thinks a blackout drunk married woman is worth their trouble. No one. Not even their husbands.

2. Sleepovers.

Unless you’ve told your husband in advance, a spontaneous sleepover is out of the question.

3. Texting people of the opposite sex.
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What if we treated physically sick or hungry people like we handle mental illness?
May 24, 2014 Comments Off on What if we treated physically sick or hungry people like we handle mental illness?

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Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?
May 14, 2014 Comments Off on Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

Psychology Today

The human sexual response cycle is thought to have four stages:

Stage 1: Desire, which is defined as having a sexy thought or sexual fantasy that often occurs out of the blue or in response to a trigger such as seeing an attractive person, smelling an aromatic perfume, or watching a hot movie. Desire then prompts us to become sexually active.

Stage 2: Arousal is the excitement we feel, the physiological changes in our bodies once we’re physically stimulated.
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Some signs of hope…
March 28, 2014 Comments Off on Some signs of hope…

Canadian Mags

Come Monday, five unpaid interns at Toronto Life magazine will be out of work because of a visit this week by an inspector of the employment standards branch of the Ontario Ministry of Labour. St. Joseph Media has been told that under the provisions of the Employment Standards Act it can no longer offer four-month unpaid internships unless the interns are fulfilling a job placement requirement from a school of higher education. This is not the case for most interns at Toronto Life historically, although two of the current 7 interns qualify and will be staying on.
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A recipe for failure?
February 1, 2014 Comments Off on A recipe for failure?

Seth Godin

Deniability–“They decided, created, commanded or blocked. Not my fault.”

Helplessness–“My boss won’t let me.”

Contempt–“They don’t pay me enough to put up with the likes of these customers.”

Fear–“It’s good enough, it’s not worth the risk, people will talk, this might not work…”
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Maybe the primary issue with poverty is simple lack of money?
January 8, 2014 Comments Off on Maybe the primary issue with poverty is simple lack of money?

Washington Post

In May 2009, a small experiment involving 13 homeless men took off in London. Some of them had slept in the cold for more than 40 years. The presence of these street veterans was far from cheap. Police, legal services, health care: Each cost taxpayers thousands of pounds every year.
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If everything worked out perfectly in your life, what would you be doing in ten years?
December 22, 2013 Comments Off on If everything worked out perfectly in your life, what would you be doing in ten years?

Harvard Biz Review

Working with colleagues at Cleveland Clinic, Boyatzis put people through a positive, dreams-first interview or a negative, problems-focused one while their brains were scanned. The positive interview elicited activity in reward circuitry and areas for good memories and upbeat feelings – a brain signature of the open hopefulness we feel when embracing an inspiring vision.
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Sex Sells?
December 15, 2013 Comments Off on Sex Sells?

Time

Women are turned off by sexually explicit images in advertisements. Unless that is, the item being advertised is very precious. And valuable. And rare. Like, maybe, a once a year type gift.

At least, that’s the findings of a new study by an international group of marketing professors. Kathleen D. Vohs, Jaideep Sengupta and Darren W. Dahl used made-up advertisements for watches to test a theory in sexual economics that women want sex to be seen as something special, or at least not cheap. Sexual economic theory is “probably the least romantic theory about sex you’ll ever have learned,” says Vohs, who’s a researcher at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.
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Session Notes

Now that we’ve passed laws nearly everywhere…

So, are YOU meeting your goals?

Wondering why the divorce rate is so high?

What if we treated physically sick or hungry people like we handle mental illness?

Maybe you don’t have low sexual desire after all?

Some signs of hope…

A recipe for failure?

Maybe the primary issue with poverty is simple lack of money?

If everything worked out perfectly in your life, what would you be doing in ten years?

Sex Sells?

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