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6 Important Things To Know About How Your Brain Learns. Whether you want to learn a new language, learn to cook, take up a musical instrument, or just get more out of the books you read, it helps to know how your brain learns.

6 Important Things To Know About How Your Brain Learns

While everyone learns slightly differently, we do have similarities in the way our brains take in new information, and knowing how this works can help us choose the most efficient strategies for learning new things. Here are six things you should know about the brain’s learning systems. Want more learning hacks and tips on living a more creative and productive life? Click here to join the 7,034 people who get our weekly newsletter. 1.

The brain uses 50% of its resources on vision. 10 Psychological Studies That Will Change What You Think You Know About Yourself. Why do we do the things we do?

10 Psychological Studies That Will Change What You Think You Know About Yourself

Despite our best attempts to "know thyself," the truth is that we often know astonishingly little about our own minds, and even less about the way others think. As Charles Dickens once put it, “A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” Psychologists have long sought insights into how we perceive the world and what motivates our behavior, and they've made enormous strides in lifting that veil of mystery.

Aside from providing fodder for stimulating cocktail-party conversations, some of the most famous psychological experiments of the past century reveal universal and often surprising truths about human nature. Here are 10 classic psychological studies that may change the way you understand yourself. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World. Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think.

10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World

Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. ISSUU - Publish Online Magazines. 20 Cognitive Biases That Affect Your Decisions. The Mind Unleashed. Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. By Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic | 11:00 AM August 27, 2014 There seems to be wide support for the idea that we are living in an “age of complexity”, which implies that the world has never been more intricate.

Curiosity Is as Important as Intelligence - Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

This idea is based on the rapid pace of technological changes, and the vast amount of information that we are generating (the two are related). Yet consider that philosophers like Leibniz (17th century) and Diderot (18th century) were already complaining about information overload. The “horrible mass of books” they referred to may have represented only a tiny portion of what we know today, but much of what we know today will be equally insignificant to future generations. In any event, the relative complexity of different eras is of little matter to the person who is simply struggling to cope with it in everyday life. 1. 2) EQ: EQ stands for emotional quotient and concerns our ability to perceive, control, and express emotions.

22 Shirts Every Introvert Should Own. Leverage Your Personality Type. I thought I was damaged. Then I learned I’m introverted. “Consciousness Creates Reality” – Physicists Admit The Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual. “Consciousness creates reality,” a statement that has gained a lot of attention across various alternative media outlets around the world.

“Consciousness Creates Reality” – Physicists Admit The Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual

Make no mistake, consciousness has been (for quite some time) studied by numerous scientists, especially in its relation to quantum physics and how it might be correlated with the nature of our reality. How to Detect Lies - body language, reactions, speech patterns. Interesting Info -> Lying Index -> How to Detect Lies.

How to Detect Lies - body language, reactions, speech patterns

What are microexpressions? “Consciousness Creates Reality” – Physicists Admit The Universe Is Immaterial, Mental & Spiritual. What It Feels Like to Be Suicidal. Interesting piece on suicidal ideation in Scientific American.

What It Feels Like to Be Suicidal

Scientific American: The Three Doors of Serendip: Exhibit Index. Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder. Definition - Borderline Personality Disorder is a defined as a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior.

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder

The instability of BPD often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Originally thought to be at the "borderline" of psychosis, people with BPD suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. While less well known than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), BPD is more common, affecting 2% of adults, mostly young women or by another estimate, 1-3% of the general population. Some suggest that the name itself, Borderline Personality Disorder, is an inappropriate term for this disorder, or "a misleading label". The disorder has nothing to do with neurosis or psychosis, but rather involves emotional volatility, what one reporter described as "a [very] thin emotional skin".

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. Hi I'm not sure I can get enough oxygen up here, such a rarefied atmosphere & all!

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Thank you for including me! Long run, I will be in better shape for this, though right now I am ...so touchy & damaged dealing with the impact of my divorce & settlement & breathing all the dust I stirred up...and I have to do it all without cussing or even digressing! How to Deal with Borderline Personality Disorder. Steps Method 1 of 4: Understand "Borderline Personality Disorder" (BPD) 1Expect some of these character traits in the person with "Borderline Personality Disorder" (BPD), such as:Poor, or lack of, control over emotions.Sudden changes in mood.Poor follow-through.

How to Deal with Borderline Personality Disorder

Frequently changing opinions and plans.Inability to maintain normal emotional relationships, throwing temper tantrums, arguing over insignificant events, fits of rage, at times "for no clear reason".Or the opposite, called "flat affect", often unable to feel or express anger.Fear of loneliness and isolation: yet, often at the same time, showing a tendency to avoid people, keeping them away.Fear of abandonment. 2See some characteristics on the positive side:Can be highly creative.Have a quick wit and are sometimes considered the life of the party.Are often talented and particularly intelligent. Critical thinking web.

15 styles of Distorted Thinking. 15 styles of Distorted Thinking Filtering: You take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation. Polarized Thinking: Things are black or white, good or bad. How to deal with people with BPD. Top 10 Thinking Traps Exposed. Borderline personality disorder. Photo by: kentoh Definition.