Review of Emotional Intelligence Review of Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman Kevin Langdon Published in Noesis #145, November 1999 Copyright © 1999 by Kevin Langdon When people are asked to rank the importance of various attributes, in themselves, in a potential mate, or in human beings in general, intelligence makes a respectable showing but it’s rarely at the top of the list. But when a person is challenged in real life, when his honor, his beauty, his kindness, his industry, or his honesty is put into question, nothing provokes such a strong defensive reaction as the suggestion that he’s not too bright. If one were asked about his expectations regarding the distribution of nose-to-tail length of an unknown population of animals (let us assume they’re all full-grown and all the same sex, for the sake of simplicity), one would unhesitatingly reply that, in all likelihood, a few would be very large, a few would be very small, and the vast majority would be clustered somewhere in the middle. I have been fortunate.
50 Things Everyone Should Know How To Do - StumbleUpon Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. While not totally comprehensive , here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Check out these books for more ideas on pertinent life skills:
What to Write Down During a Class Lecture I dunno. I sometimes surprise people with what I can remember, but while I think it's important to remember the concept discussed, certain details may not be remembered unless your professor does upload the slides or offers a study guide. Are these offerings pretty consistently offered? If so, paying attention may be all you need. The cues mentioned here are pretty "duh", though. I agree with you and rarely take notes myself but I have noticed it does tend to allow my mind to wander more which means I pay less attention. Also, writing something down does tend to etch it in your mind slightly deeper making it harder to forget. I think it may depend on the subject. In less technical fields, the teachers are sometimes lazy (although they try to blame the students), the material is less susceptible to outlining, or it's just not that hard in comparison with something like computer science. I don't think much of this guide.
Speech patterns give away psychopaths NEW YORK — Psychopaths are known to be wily and manipulative, but even so, they unconsciously betray themselves, according to scientists who have looked for patterns in convicted murderers' speech as they described their crimes. The researchers interviewed 52 convicted murderers, 14 of them ranked as psychopaths according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, a 20-item assessment, and asked them to describe their crimes in detail. Using computer programs to analyze what the men said, the researchers found that those with psychopathic scores showed a lack of emotion, spoke in terms of cause-and-effect when describing their crimes, and focused their attention on basic needs, such as food, drink and money. [10 Contested Death Penalty Cases] "The beautiful thing about them is they are unconsciously produced," Hancock said. These unconscious actions can reveal the psychological dynamics in a speaker's mind even though he or she is unaware of it, Hancock said. What it means to be a psychopath
Inside the Mind of a Sociopath This excerpt is from: "The Sociopath Next Door: The Ruthless vs. the Rest of Us" by Martha Stout Ph.D. (Broadway Books, New York, 2005, ISBN 0-7679-1581-X). Martha Stout is a clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and elaborates on the tales of ruthlessness in everyday life based on her 25 years of practice as a specialist in the treatment of psychological trauma survivors. Imagine - if you can - not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern of the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. In other words, you are completely free of internal restraints, and your unhampered liberty to do just as you please, with no pangs of conscience, is conveniently invisible to the world. How will you live your life? Maybe you are someone who craves money and power, and though you have no vestige of conscience, you do have a magnificent IQ. Or no - let us say you are not quite such a person. Caveats: Dr.
How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age While the "empire of consumption" has been around for a long time[1], American society in the last 30 years has undergone a sea change in the daily lives of children - one marked by a major transition from a culture of innocence and social protection, however imperfect, to a culture of commodification. Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives. Under the tutelage of Disney and other megacorporations, children have become an audience captive not only to traditional forms of media such as film, television and print, but even more so to the new digital media made readily accessible through mobile phones, PDAs, laptop computers and the Internet. The information, entertainment and cultural pedagogy disseminated by massive multimedia corporations have become central in shaping and influencing every waking moment of children's daily lives - all toward a lifetime of constant, unthinking consumption.
The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence - Henry A. Giroux societalbookArticles. Introduction of Media · Cover Story Democratizing Global Media · UR On..interview Aslam Azhar · Media, Education and Public Consciousness ...www.sef.org.pk/educatewebsite/educate4fol/societalbook.asp Dr.Henry A. Giroux-BooksThe Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence From Active Minds: How are children--and their parents--affected by the world's most influential ...henryagiroux.com/books/mouse_that.htm More The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Culture ...The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence (Culture and Education Series) by Henry A. Epinions Recent Reviews for Henry A. 9825-06/Trifonas (p23-28)The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the. Henry GirouxNew York: Routledge, 1997. Disneyworld is not enoughTHE MOUSE THAT ROARED.Disney and the end of innocence. COM447The mouse that roared: Disney and the end of innocence. Less
Dr.Henry A. Giroux-Online Articles Animating Youth: the Disnification of Children's Culture By: Henry A. Giroux [Socialist Review 24:3 (1995), pp. 23-55. The notion that America is at war with meaning has taken on a much greater significance in the last few decades. Children's culture as an object of critical analysis opens up a space in which children become an important dimension of social theory. Though it appears to be a commonplace assumption, the idea that popular culture provides the basis for persuasive forms of learning for children was impressed upon me with an abrupt urgency during the last few years. The cultural authority of this postmodern media-scape rests on its power to usurp traditional sites of learning and its ability to expand the power of culture through and endless stream of signifying practices, which prioritize the pleasures of the image over the intellectual demands of critical inquiry. At the risk of taking Baudrillard too literally, examples of the Disnification of America abound.
- StumbleUpon It’s a dying art, struck down by text, email and messaging. So can we be taught how to talk to each other? Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”. The poet “swept at once into a continuous strain of dissertation, certainly the most novel, the most finely illustrated, and traversing the most spacious fields of thought, by transitions the most just and logical, that it was possible to conceive”. Most of us have hopefully felt the unmoored elation of staying up all night talking with a friend or a lover. But Coleridge was that rare thing, a conversationalist: eloquent, witty, with a seemingly bottomless reservoir of cultural knowledge. What makes a good conversationalist has changed little over the years. And so I found myself one cold Tuesday evening in February talking to complete strangers, nibbling on vegetable quiche and sipping blackcurrant cordial.
The Reality of Repressed Memories In 1990, a landmark case went to trial in Redwood City, California. The defendant, George Franklin, Sr., 51 years old, stood trial for a murder that had occurred more than 20 years earlier. The victim, 8-year-old (Susan Kay Nason, was murdered on September 22, 1969). Eileen's memory did not come back all at once. Eileen's memory report was believed by her therapist, by several members of her family, and by the San Mateo County district attorney's office, which chose to prosecute her father. Eileen's detailed and confident memory impressed a number of people. On the other hand, the clinical anecdotes and the loose theory used to explain them remain unconvincing to some psychotherapists and to many laboratory researchers. Even if Holmes (1990) was right that there is virtually no scientific evidence to demonstrate the authenticity of repressed memories that return, Eileen's memory could still be authentic. More Repressed Memories Popular Articles Letters Legal Cases Popular Writings
Earn Money Listening to Music on Music XRay | Extra Cash and Rewards I have found another very promising way to earn money listening to music! Music XRay is the closest thing I’ve found so far to Slice the Pie — you actually get paid real money to listen to and rate songs. There are other sites, like Hit Predictor, that only award you with points that you can redeem. But Music XRay is the real deal, you do get cash. How It Works You just sign up on Music XRay to be a part of their focus groups. How Much Does Music XRay Pay? Everyone gets paid ten cents a listen. How often do you get focus group invitations to rate music? At first, they will come in slowly. Does Music XRay have a referral program? Yes, they do. My Experience So Far Well, there’s not a lot to report on just yet. I’m anxious to see how much better I do once my level starts increasing. Bottom Line Would you like to sign up? You can get started signing up by using this link and clicking “I am a music fan” to get started
The 30 greatest conspiracy theories part 1 The 35th President of the United States was shot on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas at 12.30pm . He was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy - in a motorcade. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963 to 1964, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976 to 1979, and other government investigations concluded that the President had been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald - who was himself shot dead by Jack Ruby while in police custody. But doubts about the official explanation and the conclusion that Oswald was the lone gunman firing from the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was hit surfaced soon after the commission report. Footage of the motorcade taken by Abraham Zapruder on 8mm film supported the growing belief that at least four shots were fired - not the three that the Warren Commission claimed. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Why won't this one go away? 8. 9. 11.
Did Nostradamus Predict the 9-11 Attacks? September 12, 2001 (with updates) NOSTRADAMUS, the most famous astrologer who ever lived, was born in France in 1503 and published his barely scrutable collection of prophecies, The Centuries, in 1555. Each four-line verse (or "quatrain") purported to foretell world events far into the future, and ever since Nostradamus' time devotees have claimed his work accurately predicted wars, natural disasters and the rise and fall of empires. Yet it's plain to see that Nostradamus couched his "prophetic" verses in language so obscure that the words can be, and have been, interpreted to mean almost anything. If the aftermaths of past world catastrophes are any indication, we can expect to see a bumper crop of arcane tracts in the coming weeks and months purporting to show beyond a doubt that Nostradamus foresaw the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11, 2001. New York, the 'City of God'??? Let the interpreting begin! Spooky, right?
NIMH · Brain Matures a Few Years Late in ADHD, But Follows Normal Pattern - StumbleUpon In youth with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the brain matures in a normal pattern but is delayed three years in some regions, on average, compared to youth without the disorder, an imaging study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has revealed. The delay in ADHD was most prominent in regions at the front of the brain’s outer mantle (cortex), important for the ability to control thinking, attention and planning. Otherwise, both groups showed a similar back-to-front wave of brain maturation with different areas peaking in thickness at different times (see movie below). “Finding a normal pattern of cortex maturation, albeit delayed, in children with ADHD should be reassuring to families and could help to explain why many youth eventually seem to grow out of the disorder,” explained Philip Shaw, M.D., NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch, who led the research team. Source: NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch