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8 Websites For Creative Business Ideas If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur. That’s the thing with ideas. You never know which ones will work. Without crazy ideas we wouldn’t have the airplane or the Frisbee. If you are an enterprising entrepreneur, you probably are in search of the next great big idea. These eight websites with business ideas might not be your genie’s lamp, but they could light a spark. Springwise Springwise spotters grab ideas for a business from across the world and put it in an ideas database. Cool Business Ideas The business blog is all about that – cool ideas for a business. Trend Watching This web service/publication watches out for consumer trends across the world. Entrepreneur The well-known entrepreneur’s blog has a section devoted to business ideas. This ideas website covers design, digital, marketing, media and technology domains. Business Opportunities You can dip into an archive of over 19,000 business ideas if you are running short. Kickstarter Kickstarter itself is a great idea to begin with.

Quirky Image Credit: Shutterstock. Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive « alex.moskalyuk. Lucid Dreaming Frequently Asked Questions Answered by The Lucidity Institute. Version 2.4 © Lucidity Institute (contact us) This FAQ is a brief introduction to lucid dreaming: what it is, how to do it, and what can be done with it. There are several excellent sources of information on lucid dreaming, the most reliable and extensive of which is the Lucidity Institute website ( Other sources are listed below. Stephen LaBerge presents workshops, and training programs for learning lucid dreaming.

Participating with a group focused together on developing the skills necessary for lucid dreaming is the most efficient and effective way of achieving or improving your frequency of lucid dreaming (and it's a lot of fun). For information please visit the Lucidity Institute website. Upcoming programs are listed at the top of the page. "I first heard of lucid dreaming in April of 1982, when I took a course from Dr. 3.4 WHAT TECHNOLOGY IS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST LUCID DREAMING TRAINING? 10 Psychological States You've Never Heard Of — And When You Experienced Them. The Best Kept Secret in Lending, Bar None. How familiar are you with Regulation B of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act? Wait, wait! Don’t stop reading because I threw out an unfamiliar legal reference.

What I’m about to tell you will change how you think about applying for credit, forever. When you walk into a financial institution and apply for some sort of credit, you have to fill out an application. That application contains language giving the lender permission to pull your credit reports and scores. This gives them what’s referred to in the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) as Permissible Purpose to get your credit data.

The lender pulls your credit reports and scores. If, however, they deny your application, you’re sent on your merry way empty handed and a week or so later you get the rejection letter in the mail. What I just described happens tens of thousands of times every single day. Let’s go back to Regulation B of the ECOA. That was confusing, I know. Don’t feel bad if you didn’t know all of this. The bottom line? Dunning–Kruger effect. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate.

The bias was first experimentally observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999. Dunning and Kruger attributed the bias to the metacognitive inability of the unskilled to evaluate their own ability level accurately. Their research also suggests that conversely, highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them also are easy for others.[1] Dunning and Kruger have postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in the unskilled, and external misperception in the skilled: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.

"[1] Original study[edit] Supporting studies[edit] 10 Psychological Effects of Nonsexual Touch. A simple (nonsexual) touch can increase compliance, helping behaviour, attraction, and signal power. To get around in the world, we mainly rely on our eyes and ears. Touch is a sense that’s often forgotten. But touch is also vital in the way we understand and experience the world. Even the lightest touch on the upper arm can influence the way we think. To prove it, here are 10 psychological effects which show just how powerful nonsexual touch can be. 1. A well-timed touch can encourage other people to return a lost item. In one experiment, users of a phone booth who were touched were more likely to return a lost dime to an experimenter (Kleinke, 1977). The action was no more than a light touch on the arm. People will do more than that though; people will give a bigger tip to a waitress who has touched them (Crusco & Wetzel, 1984).

(Stop giggling at the back there!) 2. People are also more likely to provide help when touched. The percentage of people who helped went up from 63% to 90%. 3. 4. 5. 6. The Brain—Information about the Brain. 1 Introduction “I think, therefore I am.” —René Descartes, 17th-century philosopher Few of us question the crucial importance of the brain.

It is vital to our existence. Our brains enable us to think, as René Descartes so skillfully pointed out nearly 400 years ago. Yet the human brain is responsible for so much more. It directs almost everything we do. The brain makes up only 2 percent of our body weight, but it consumes 20 percent of the oxygen we breathe and 20 percent of the energy we consume. Scientists have worked for many years to unravel the complex workings of the brain.

Despite these and other significant advances in the field of brain research, most of the processes responsible for the integrated functioning of billions of brain cells remain a mystery. An essential aspect of any scientific research is communicating results to the public in a way that is easily understood. 2 Myths and Realities about the Brain Myth: The brain is separate from the nervous system. Figure 1.