5 Workplaces Annoyances That Can Actually Boost Creativity. Let's say you've been tasked with some creative project, like if your boss asked you to think up a dozen new slogans to put on hilarious T-shirts or come up with five new ways to get more cheese into a pizza ("We can put it INSIDE the pepperoni!
"). And let's say you're allowed to create the perfect work environment to spur your creativity. You'd almost certainly ask for a place that was quiet and full of kind, supportive people, and for a relaxing work schedule that guaranteed you'd always be fresh and wide awake. And you would be screwing yourself before you even got started. Because science shows that almost everything you hate about your shitty office actually makes you more creative. For instance ... #5. Photos.com Creative individuals tend to bump into two stereotypes: Either people see them as bottle-hugging semi-professional winos, or they're labeled as lazy bastards who procrastinate until the deadline is looming and then engage in sleepless, coffee-fueled, last-minute workathons.
What The Eyes Reveal: 10 Messages My Pupils are Sending You. The dilation and constriction of the pupils reveals how hard we’re thinking, how excited or disgusted we are and more… Our pupils, the black holes which let light into the eyes, don’t just help us see, they also signal what’s going on in our minds.
Here are 10 pieces of psychological research which show how changes in pupil size reveal many aspects of thought. 1. I’m thinking hard Look into my eyes and ask me to name the cigar-smoking founder of psychoanalysis and you won’t see much change in my pupil size. But ask me to explain the laws of cricket and watch my pupils expand. That’s because research has shown that the harder your brain works, the more your pupils dilate. 2. Keep watching my eyes closely and you’ll spot the point when explaining the laws of cricket gets too much. Poock (1973) reported that when participants’ minds were loaded to 125% of their capacity, their pupils constricted. It’ll be trying to explain a googly that will do it. 3. 4. The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated) Why it’s good to let boys cry - On Parenting. Posted at 07:00 AM ET, 05/25/2012 May 25, 2012 11:00 AM EDT TheWashingtonPost By Jennifer Kogan A sad thing happened at my son’s baseball game a few weeks ago.
Picture this: A 13-year-old boy strikes out at bat. Would you let your son cry during a tough game? There would be no tears during this game. I was shaken. A 2010 study followed 426 boys through middle school to investigate the extent to which boys favor stereotypically male qualities, such as emotional stoicism and physical toughness, over stereotypically feminine qualities, such as emotional openness and communication, and whether they have any influence on their mental well-being. Results showed that as boys progressed through adolescence they tended to further embrace hyper-masculine stereotypes.
This detail is important data to have because male suicide rates reportedly start to rise by age 16. As parents, we often view our sons’ and daughters’ emotions differently. 1. How HBO’s ‘Girls’ Mirrors the Spirit of Sisterhood in Nature. Yet offsetting all those slings and risk factors is a powerful defense system: girlfriends.
Hannah has a tight-knit network of three female confederates, one best friend and two sturdy runners-up; and while none of the girl-women can offer much material support, no spare bedroom in a rent-controlled apartment, they are each other’s emotional tourniquets. You, fat? Don’t make me laugh. An unpleasant doctor’s appointment? We’re going too. As in urban jungles, so too in jungle jungles. In animals as diverse as African elephants and barnyard mice, blue monkeys of Kenya and feral horses of New Zealand, affiliative, longlasting and mutually beneficial relationships between females turn out to be the basic unit of social life, the force that not only binds existing groups together but explains why the animals’ ancestors bothered going herd in the first place.
And female elephants keep in touch with their chums through frequent exchanges of low-pitched vocalizations called rumbles. Dr.