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How You Can Live to 100. Hack a Day — Fresh hacks every day. 8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating. “Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder.

8 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Concentrating

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. 4 Basic Life Lessons from Basic Training. Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Mike Inscho.

4 Basic Life Lessons from Basic Training

If you’ve been a reader of The Art of Manliness for more than a day, you know Brett, Kate, and all of the regular contributors do a fantastic job of searching out and relaying habits of great men to us. Men like Ernest Shackleton, Henry David Thoreau, and Charles Atlas, all set examples that every man can follow. Meditation. Can You Make Yourself Smarter? Infographics / Brain hacking the seven deadly sins. Knowledge is Power. Vidéos Tutos. (2) SOURCES: UNEDITED BY DEFINITION. Causes.com: Build Awareness, Fundraise, and Advocate for Change. REFERENCE. The Mind. Investigative journalism links... Intellectual. Top 8 Supplements to Boost Your Pineal Gland Function. Anna Hunt, Staff WriterWaking Times The pineal gland, an endocrine gland located in the brain, is said to be the seat of the soul.

Top 8 Supplements to Boost Your Pineal Gland Function

The Six Most Interesting Psychology Papers of 2015. Every year, psychologists publish a staggering amount of research—it’s impossible to read it all.

The Six Most Interesting Psychology Papers of 2015

Still, I gave it a shot—and here are the six papers I found most fascinating. “Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science,” from Science This paper isn’t really a study; it’s the outcome of an important movement in the field of psychology. In an effort called the Reproducibility Project, researchers at dozens of universities collaborated to replicate a hundred psychology studies that were initially conducted in 2008. The Demoralized Mind. © Robin Heighway-Bury/Alamy By John Schumaker / newint.org Our descent into the Age of Depression seems unstoppable.

The Demoralized Mind

Three decades ago, the average age for the first onset of depression was 30. A Silent Epidemic: The Mental Health Crisis In Our Schools. Psychology History. Compiled by Kathy Jo Hall (May 1997) Biography Theory Time Line Bibliography Carl R.

Psychology History

Rogers is known as the father of client-centered therapy. Throughout his career he dedicated himself to humanistic psychology and is well known for his theory of personality development. He began developing his humanistic concept while working with abused children. Dr. Working the Unconscious Consciousness. Brain science & Psychology. EDUCATIONAL REPOSITORIES & DIGITAL LIBRARIES. Psychologie. The research paradigm – methodology, epistemology and ontology – explained in simple language.

I have put together this post to explain what a research paradigm is, which includes ontology, epistemology, theoretical framework and methodology, and why it is important for your research or PhD.

The research paradigm – methodology, epistemology and ontology – explained in simple language

It took me a while to understand this properly, and below is a summary of my understanding of the topic, which I hope will help you. I suggest you go easy on yourself (I was pulling my hair out on the second day). Online Learning TED Talks. Brain–computer interface. A brain–computer interface (BCI), sometimes called a mind-machine interface (MMI), direct neural interface (DNI), synthetic telepathy interface (STI) or brain–machine interface (BMI), is a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device.

Brain–computer interface

BCIs are often directed at assisting, augmenting, or repairing human cognitive or sensory-motor functions. Research on BCIs began in the 1970s at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) under a grant from the National Science Foundation, followed by a contract from DARPA.[1][2] The papers published after this research also mark the first appearance of the expression brain–computer interface in scientific literature.

The field of BCI research and development has since focused primarily on neuroprosthetics applications that aim at restoring damaged hearing, sight and movement. History[edit] Philosophy/Spirituality. Thinker. How to Learn Without Memorizing. BizAngel Network - Business Angel Network. Intelligence is broken down into 9 different types, also called the 9 domains of intelligence.

BizAngel Network - Business Angel Network

The following infographic shows that being good at math or languages are not the only two ways to be smart. Source: Funders and Founders. A Stanford researcher's 15-minute study hack improves test grades by a third of a grade — Quartz. When she was a teenager, Gui Lisha routinely skipped classes to play video games at cyber cafés, to the point that her father threatened sending her to rehab for internet addiction. Soon after high school, Gui snuck away from her hometown to join a professional video gaming team. Her father thought that she had fallen prey to a pyramid scheme, and flew to the city where she was in a bid to rescue her. Gui, now 20, is better known as “LLG Shan Chen” in China’s competitive video gaming, or e-sports, community.

The “LLG” stands for her team’s name, “Love Laughing Girls,” one of China’s first all-female professional video gaming teams. In its most recent contest, LLG went head-to-head at the end of August with three other all-female teams from Europe, Taiwan, and South Korea at a League of Legends tournament in Hong Kong, for prize money worth more than $10,000, but also for recognition that female gamers should be taken as seriously as their male counterparts. China rises, Europe struggles. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving. Mindstuff. It's all in the Mind. Education. Self-Help, Self Improvement, Free Education. Brain Hacking. You Don’t Have to Be the Boss to Change How Your Company Works. Cognitive bias cheat sheet. 5 Brainwashing Tricks That Work No Matter How Smart You Are. #2.

5 Brainwashing Tricks That Work No Matter How Smart You Are

Everyone Has the Same Moral Code, They Just Use It Differently Win McNamee/Getty Images News/Getty Images Question: Change Your Entire Life With This Simple Technique From Thich Nhat Hanh. It’s Kind Of Amazing! Get elephant's newsletter To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh I was visiting a friend in New York City this past weekend as we discussed various elements of all things spiritual. “Tip-of-the-Tongue Syndrome,” Transactive Memory, and How the Internet Is Making Us Smarter.

By Maria Popova “A public library keeps no intentional secrets about its mechanisms; a search engine keeps many.” “The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1946, decades before the internet as we know it even existed. Her fear has since been echoed again and again with every incremental advance in technology, often with simplistic arguments about the attrition of attention in the age of digital distraction.

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Why do CEOs who excel at golf get paid more, despite poorer stock market performance? To see how easily the mind jumps to the wrong conclusions, try virtually taking part in a little experiment… 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. How to Train Your Mind to Think Critically and Form Your Own Opinions. Mindfulness Meditation Audio. List of psychic abilities.

2012 Ascension: New Powers and Abilities. How to activate the Pineal Gland? - Decalcify Pineal Gland. Ever asked the simple question of how to activate the Pineal Gland (Third Eye/Ajna Chakra)? Now here is the answer… How to Decalcify the Pineal Gland? Awakening Spiritual Sight This article is presented courtesy of the Spiritual Scientists at DecalcifyThePinealGland.com. How to Clean Up the Pineal Gland. Empathy tools. The Secret. The Six Stages of Mental Strength. Christian mysticism. Mental disorders. Jung. The theory of everything. Moving into Multifunctional Consciousness. Awakening. How "SuperAger" Brains Are Different Than Everyone Else's. Researchers working with SuperAgers—people aged 80 and up with impeccable memory—reveal how their brains look decades younger. And compared to others their age, SuperAgers have nearly 90 percent fewer brain “tangles” linked to Alzheimer’s disease.

The findings were published in the Journal of Neuroscience last week. Direct Brain-To-Brain Communication Used in Humans. Empower yourself. Knowledge is Power. Brain. Brain Pathway Rediscovered After 100 Years. 7 Morning Rituals to Empower your day & Change your Life. How Experts Practice Better Than the Rest. Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking. How to Memorize Things Quickly. Can I increase my brain power? Can You Really Learn a Skill in A Week? The Secrets Inside Tim Ferriss' Insanely Fast Learning Strategy. The Method of Loci. How to Lucid Dream: 15 Steps. Sam Harris on the Paradox of Meditation and How to Stretch Our Capacity for Everyday Self-Transcendence.

18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently. The Power Of Thought: Alter Your Genes and Cure any Disease. Brain, Mind, and Altered States of Consciousness. How to Study Less by Learning Things Once. How Experts Practice Better Than the Rest. Learning To Learn Faster: The One Superpower Everyone Needs. Stop Thinking and Start Doing: The Power of Practicing More. Can You Really Learn a Skill in A Week? The Secrets Inside Tim Ferriss' Insanely Fast Learning Strategy.