Here’s how politics creates a neurochemical roller coaster. Your brain evolved to promote survival, so your neurochemicals create a sense of urgency about everything relevant to survival needs. Social needs feel as urgent as physical needs because the survival of your genes depends on it. Politics triggers your happy brain chemicals by creating expectations of …
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People recognize that gratitude and motivation are good but not that they’re in conflict with each other: Concentrate on what’s right and you’ll appreciate what you’ve got; Concentrate on what’s wrong and you’ll seek improvement. Yes, you can do both at once but only sort of. If a particular thing annoys you, you’ve got to …
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There are some well-known facts about laughter. laughter functions to create social bonds laughing increases our short-term pain tolerance a small dose of humor can increase immunological functioning laughter during negotiations increases the likelihood of small concessions All of these scientific findings are interesting but obvious. Here are a few less well-known discoveries. 1. The …
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Recent discoveries about the self: What are they? As science advances, we are discovering that our traditional sense of self is too narrow to encompass the complexities of what create an identity. We long believed we had five senses; now we know we have at least twenty-one. In Frames of Mind, Howard Gardner revealed we …
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South Africa continues to face an economic-socio-political crisis. The harsh reality of South Africa’s economic crisis suggests one of the highest Gini Coefficients in the world. Unemployment figures continue to rise. The draft policy issued by the Department of Higher Education and Training reveals that 68% of South Africa’s unemployed are in the 15-34 age …
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Your class determines how you look at your fellow creatures IN 2009 a team of psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who were studying people from different walks of life, noticed that those from the upper classes were less good than those from the lower at discerning emotions on the faces of others. This …
Join us for what promises to be a very informative talk by Dr Sharon Johnson on stress management and how to prevent burn-out. It will take place on 12 August, at Cornerstone Institute, 13h30 – 15h00. Dr Sharon Johnson has specialised in stress and burnout in the teaching profession, but will be talking generally about …
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