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Scrambled – Trick your Brain to efficiently deal with Drama | The Personal Blog of Cristi Vlad. “Life is either a daring challenge or nothing.” Helen Keller Intro To be able to awaken the hibernating giant within thyself, you need to constantly attack and perceive drama as non life-threatening. There are very few situations in one’s life when things really suck, like when someone close to you passes away or when you’re attacked by a vicious gun-man. Even in these situations you cannot and you should not let your emotions take complete control over you because it will not lead to anything good, both in the short and in the long-term. Don’t get me wrong here! Tony Robbins taught me neuro-associative conditioning (or NSC, as he likes to name it), which is a technique that links pain or pleasure to certain life situations.

Think of it this way: Is it okay to associate the memory of someone you love with the pain of crying for that person? You know the answer deep inside your heart. The Manageable Drama Now, let’s focus on the more manageable drama we all have in our daily lives. 1. 2. 3. 4.

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Perception. Emotions. Neuroscience. Increase IQ. Consciousness. Gifted. Motivation. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. La motivation est, dans un organisme vivant, la composante ou le processus qui règle son engagement pour une activité précise. Elle en détermine le déclenchement dans une certaine direction avec l'intensité souhaitée et en assure la prolongation jusqu'à l'aboutissement ou l'interruption.

Cette notion se distingue du dynamisme, de l'énergie ou du fait d'être actif. La motivation prend de nos jours une place de premier plan dans une organisation. Elle est déterminante pour la productivité chez les employés. Se manifestant habituellement par le déploiement d'une énergie (sous divers aspects telle que l'enthousiasme, l'assiduité, la persévérance), la motivation est trivialement assimilée à une « réserve d'énergie ».

Mais plus qu'une forme « d'énergie potentielle », la motivation est une instance d'intégration et de régulation d'une multitude de paramètres relatifs aux opportunités d'un environnement et aux sollicitations d'une situation. The Whole Brain Atlas. How to Hack Your Brain. How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs. Creativity. Dreams. ParadigmOfComplexity. The last few decades have seen the emergence of a growing body of literature devoted to a critique of the so-called “old” or “Cartesian-Newtonian” paradigm which, in the wake of the prodigious successes of modern natural science, came to dominate the full range of authoritative intellectual discourse and its associated worldviews.

Often coupled with a materialistic, and indeed atomistic, metaphysics, this paradigm has been guided by the methodological principle of reductionism. The critics of reductionism have tended to promote various forms of holism, a term which, perhaps more than any other, has served as the rallying cry for those who see themselves as creators of a “new paradigm.” At the forefront of such a challenge, and in many ways the herald of the new paradigm, is the relatively new movement of transpersonal psychology. In taking seriously such experiences, transpersonal theory has been compelled to transcend the disciplinary boundaries of mainstream psychology.

C. G. The Limits of Intelligence. Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the Spanish Nobel-winning biologist who mapped the neural anatomy of insects in the decades before World War I, likened the minute circuitry of their vision-processing neurons to an exquisite pocket watch. He likened that of mammals, by comparison, to a hollow-chested grandfather clock.

Indeed, it is humbling to think that a honeybee, with its milligram-size brain, can perform tasks such as navigating mazes and landscapes on a par with mammals. A honeybee may be limited by having comparatively few neurons, but it surely seems to squeeze everything it can out of them. At the other extreme, an elephant, with its five-million-fold larger brain, suffers the inefficiencies of a sprawling Mesopotamian empire. Signals take more than 100 times longer to travel between opposite sides of its brain—and also from its brain to its foot, forcing the beast to rely less on reflexes, to move more slowly, and to squander precious brain resources on planning each step.

Being Defensive. The Nature Of Genius. Genius by L. James Hammond [link to www.ljhammond.com] 1. What is Genius? Genius is the sublimation of sexual libido onto cultural and political goals. 2. There have been a few versatile geniuses, such as Leonardo and Pascal, but it’s very unusual for a person to have more than one kind of genius. 3. 4.

Many geniuses emerged from families that had been successful in practical affairs, and then had declined in vigor and strength. In Wittgenstein’s family, one finds the same combination of business success and mental instability; Wittgenstein’s father was a steel magnate, one of the richest men in Europe, but three of Wittgenstein’s brothers committed suicide.

The best solution to the problem of the origin of genius is a solution that combines Schopenhauer’s theory with Abraham’s theory. While genius inherits certain virtues and talents, it usually bequeaths little. 5. 6. 7. Throughout his life, Hitler acted like one who was the agent of fate. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating. “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. On his desk next to his computer sat crunched Red Bulls, empty Gatorade bottles, some extra pocket change and scattered pieces of paper. In the pocket of his sweat pants rested a blaring iPod with a chord that dangled near the floor, almost touching against his Adidas sandals.

On his computer sat even more stray objects than his surrounding environment. There must have been twenty browser tabs open. The tabs included political blog news, random Wikipedia entries, Facebook profiles and a Myspace page blasting more music at him. Mike made a shift about every thirty seconds between all of the above. Do you know a person like this? The Science Behind Concentration In the above account, Mike’s obviously stuck in a routine that many of us may have found ourselves in, yet in the moment we feel it’s almost an impossible routine to get out of. 1. 2.