5 Steps to Developing More Discipline. I have been thinking a lot about discipline lately. Everyone knows you can’t succeed without it, yet few people seem to possess it. “Can you make yourself do something you don’t want to do in order to get a result you really want?” That’s a question my friend Andy Andrews likes to ask. And if you can answer yes, then you are disciplined—at least in that area. But what’s the key? It’s focusing on a result you really want. Ever dreamed of launching your own self-hosted WordPress blog? Over the years, I have found that I can become disciplined in any area of my life by taking five specific steps. Step 1: Determine Your Goal Notice in Andy’s definition that the key is in knowing what you really want. Here’s an example: I will lose 10 pounds of by December 31, 2016. Step 2: List Your Reasons This is often the missing piece in both goal-setting and discipline.
Examples: I want more energy.I want to lower my cholesterol. Step 3: Identify Likely Obstacles Step 4: Develop New Behaviors. This column is about sex! Watch prime time hours of major news channels — they’re evolving back to their roots as hybrid of news, entertainment. The writer is editor of business and economic policy for Express News and 24/7 khurram.husain@tribune.com.pk It starts off as a pretty straightforward love story. The girl has a job that brings her into contact with a young man who seems charming and interested in her. She reciprocates his advances, and agrees to share a short private moment with him. Then comes the twist. The blackmailing escalates. I’m not making this up. The show bills itself as a ‘crime show’, but it looks more like one of those cheap dramas that entertainment channels carry. When the human interest turn began in Pakistani news media, most of the stories tend to be about the terrible things that people end up doing to each other in the course of a dispute.
But now the ‘human interest story’ is lapping up against far more primordial urges in its thirst for ratings. Note to Angry Guys: Drop the Darth Vader Décor - Ideas Market. By Kay Hymowitz Everett Collection Over the weekend, Review published Ms. Hymowitz’s essay, “Where Have the Good Men Gone?” Excerpted from her new book, “Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men Into Boys,” the piece argued that too many men in their 20s are now living in an extended adolescence.
Here, Ms. Hymowitz responds to some of the reaction to her piece, which to date has received more than 1,100 comments on WSJ.com. Anyone glancing at the responses to my article “Where Have the Good Men Gone?” Here are a few sample comments: “It’s a hell of a lot more fun spending time with our friends than getting saddled with a wife who resents our previous lives and thinks everything we enjoy is stupid.”
There are hundreds more in this vein, but I’ll stop with one particularly concise example: Women are “worthless.” My book grew out of my observation that relations between the sexes during this protracted period I call pre-adulthood are, at best, very confused. Column: Fight proposed ban on single-sex schools. Eight activist academics have just published an article in Science arguing that it should be banned. Claiming that there is "no well-designed research" proving that single-sex schools improve academic performance, they have urged the Department of Education to "heed the evidence" and prohibit "sex-segregated classrooms" in public schools.
Single-sex education, they say, "increases gender stereotyping and legitimizes institutional sexism. " Let's hope the Department of Education seeks a second opinion. The proposed ban would not affect the affluent. Wealthy families have always had the option of sending their children to all-male or all-female academies, but parents of lesser means have rarely had the choice. A ban would also destroy many excellent programs. Dallas success story The Irma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School in Dallas, opened in 2004 and enrolls 473 girls in grades 6 through 12.
What do the data say about the pros and cons of single-sex schools? No, they are not. How to Digitally Save Your Memories Before They Fade Away. The Social Psychology of Burning Man | Guest Blog. Relaxing on a couch left thoughtfully for tired travelers. Photo: Julia Galef I just finished shaking the last of the desert dust out of the bags I brought to this year’s Burning Man, an annual week-long event in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert that takes its name from the burning of a giant effigy at the end of the week.
According to popular perception, Burning Man is a non-stop rave thrown by a bunch of drugged-out naked hippies. That’s not false, admittedly, but it’s only a small piece of the picture. Burning Man is also a large-scale social experiment. The 50,000 people who converge on the desert each year create a temporary but legitimate city – roughly the size of Santa Cruz, CA or Flagstaff, AZ — with its own street grid, laws, and social mores. Money, on the other hand, is not optional: it’s explicitly banned. So it seems that Burning Man has managed to create an entire city operating in the social framework rather than the economic one.
And Burning Man is unquestionably a tribe. Gamers and violence: hot sauce measures aggression — Health & Fitness. By Jennifer LaRue Huget, Special to The Washington Post Posted Sept. 10, 2011, at 6:17 a.m. Last modified Sept. 10, 2011, at 7:28 a.m. For years, researchers have been trying to tease out the relationship between video game violence and aggressive behavior. A study published Aug. 17 in the American Psychological Association journal ... Similar articles: Depression study reveals two sides to illusion of control. (Medical Xpress) -- A study into depression is shedding new light on a fascinating facet of human psychology - that we can readily delude ourselves into thinking we control events, even when we know we do not. This so-called "illusion of control" can be both a positive and a negative in our lives, notes Shruti Venkatesh, a UNSW postgraduate research student. "It can help motivate people and make them feel optimistic in certain situations, but it can also lead people into having unrealistic expectations," says Ms Venkatesh, who is working with Associate Professor Michelle Moulds, of the UNSW School of Psychology, and Associate Professor Chris Mitchell, of the University of Plymouth.
"An example is when someone wears their favourite sports team jersey and their team wins, that person may come to believe that wearing the jersey caused their team to win - even though there was no correlation between the two. 96pix.com - Image-based personality test - completely free! A third of Europeans are suffering from a mental disorder in any one year | Society. More than a third of the population of Europe suffer from some sort of a mental disorder each year, according to a study which calls attention to the scale of the problem and the paucity of treatment. The research from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology has found that more than 164 million people in the EU – more than 38% of the population – have a mental disorder in any year.
The researchers include not only psychological problems such as depression, anxiety and insomnia, but also neurological illnesses, including Parkinson's disease and dementia. "The numbers are immense," said Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, one of the authors. Anxiety disorders top the list: 14% of the EU population suffer from one or more of them each year, while 7% experience insomnia, 6.9% have depression and 5.4% suffer dementia. The burden on countries in the EU is very similar, but there are gender differences.
Depression hits women in greatest numbers between the ages of 16 and 42, said Wittchen. Girls in juvenile detention teach Westminster students invaluable lessons. SALT LAKE CITY — Giggles fill the room as a group of teenage girls rip pictures of prom dresses, celebrity hair styles and designer purses out of fashion magazines. This isn’t a junior high lunchroom, it’s locked detention, jail for juveniles. Locked detention is where young people are temporarily held after arrest while their next step is determined. Some are here for running away, repeated truancy or family fights that turned physical. Others are in detention for more serious crimes, including felony charges related to drugs, theft and assault.
While clipping images from the magazines, one of the girls bluntly states, “I’m always trying to look like these women, but I don’t.” It was a revelation to the troubled teen and turned the giggling into a conversation about body image led by psychology students from Westminster College. In 2010, JJS temporarily housed more than 10,000 youths, ages 12 to 18, in locked detention. –Cassie Power (Picture courtesy: Glenn R. The Top 10 Psychology Studies of 2010. The end of 2010 fast approaches, and I'm thrilled to have been asked by the editors of Psychology Today to write about the Top 10 psychology studies of the year. I've focused on studies that I personally feel stand out, not only as examples of great science, but even more importantly, as examples of how the science of psychology can improve our lives.
Each study has a clear "take home" message, offering the reader an insight or a simple strategy they can use to reach their goals , strengthen their relationships, make better decisions, or become happier. If you extract the wisdom from these ten studies and apply them in your own life, 2011 just might be a very good year. 1) How to Break Bad Habits If you are trying to stop smoking , swearing, or chewing your nails, you have probably tried the strategy of distracting yourself - taking your mind off whatever it is you are trying not to do - to break the habit. You may also have realized by now that it doesn't work. J. J. M. J. LSE Professor Says Women Should Use Their Sex Appeal To Get Ahead At Work. Catherine Hakim, a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, has shattered the last great taboo of the workplace: professional women should use their “erotic capital” — beauty, sex appeal, charm, dress sense, liveliness, and fitness — to get ahead at work.
And rather than believing old notions that beauty has only a trivial, superficial value, women should change the way they use the “beauty premium” and not be ashamed of using it to get ahead. Professor Hakim, an expert on women’s employment and theories of female position in society, isn’t the only one talking about this. In the upcoming issue of HBR, our Synthesis column dives into Hakim’s new book, and two others on the topic, to understand what this concept means for managers. Hakim argues that while we have no problem exploiting our other advantages — money (economic capital), intelligence and education (human capital), and contacts (social capital), women especially still shirk from using erotic capital. Night Owls More Likely to Suffer from Nightmares, Survey Suggests. Night owls might think staying up late is a real hoot, but a new study hints that delayed sleep might have a sinister side.
People who hit the sack late might have a greater risk of experiencing nightmares, according to scientists, although they add that follow-up research is needed to confirm the link. "It's a very interesting preliminary study, and we desperately need more research in this area," says Jessica Payne, director of the Sleep, Stress and Memory Lab at the University of Notre Dame, commenting on the new findings. Previous reports have estimated 80 percent of adults experience at least one nightmare a year, with 5 percent suffering from disturbing dreams more than once a month. The new paper, from a group of scientists writing in the journal Sleep and Biological Rhythms, surveyed 264 university students about their sleep habits and frequency of nightmares, defined as "dysphoric dreams associated with feelings of threat, anxiety, fear or terror. " The psychology of travel. Michael Brein says he created the notion of a "travel psychologist" while earning his psychology doctorate at the University of Hawaii, and it's not hard to believe.
I haven't heard of another one. Though Brein acknowledges that his take on the discipline is rooted in a "pop psychological point of view," it does get at an interesting notion: Conflict is often inherent in travel, from getting to the airport with your bags to reading a foreign menu. When those issues are addressed, understood or accepted, travel becomes far easier and more enjoyable. That is especially true of business travel, when the trips are usually compulsory. I contacted Brein, who lives near Seattle and has interviewed more than 1,600 people about their travels in three decades in the business. Q: What exactly is this discipline you call travel psychology? Q: Do you think business travel is more stressful than leisure travel? A: I would say yes. A: One is building in more time into your business travel. A: Absolutely. Supermarket Psychology 101 - Journal Advocate.
Pat Kendall, CSU Extension Posted: 05/28/2011 01:00:35 AM MDT H ave you ever walked into the supermarket with the intention of buying two items and instead walked out with more than a dozen? Coincidence? Probably not. For example, one tactic supermarkets use is the smell of freshly baked bread coming from the in-store bakery during the after-work rush. Retailers locate commonly purchased items, such as milk and eggs, at the back of the store so that shoppers have to walk through the entire store to get to the items they came in for. Tickets and tags are another ploy retailers use to grab consumers` attention. The good news is that, by being aware of supermarket ploys and developing a shopping strategy of your own, you can save time and money as well as avoid the urge to make impulse purchases. Write down what you need before you shop. Eat before you shop. Check products and prices featured in weekly supermarket ads distributed in the local newspaper.
Purification of thought. Purification of thought Khwaja Mohammad Zubair / 28 August 2011 Our actions are the sequence of our thought. Modern psychology goes a long way to affirm the veracity and universal truth of the proverbial dictum that our action is always in conformity with our thought or intention. We do what we think. Hence Islam lays great emphasis on the purification of thoughts. The Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) while explaining the significance and philosophy of Deen, has very implicitly reported to have said that the religion of Islam is nothing short of wishing for others what we wish for ourselves. According to the teachings of Islam and practical educative behaviour of the great mystics of Islam, love for fellow beings is the basis of human dignity and significance of humanity.
As thought is the basis of our action, hence we free it from chains of socio-evils and sins of humanity. “Then He inspired it (the Nafs) with (the sense of) its wickedness and its piety. Obesity Rates Projected to Soar: Report. Why Are Men Angry: Manning Up Author Kay Hymowitz Explains. Where Have the Good Men Gone? Virtual Relationships. 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. 8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance. Why I'm raising my son to be a nerd. US Working and Middle Class: Solidarity or Competition in the Face of Crisis? The Supreme Court Disses Fathers. The Psychology of Consumerism. Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog. Males Believe Discussing Problems Is a Waste of Time. Panic & Anxiety Swirl a Storm. Clanton’s analysis simplistic, generalizes - Del Mar Times | Del Mar Times.
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