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The human brain has two hemispheres, the right side is responsible for creative thinking, intuition, spontaneity, while the left brain is responsible for analytical, logical, linear thought. You have probably heard…
This chapter is about taking ownership of your work and being independent. Employers will steal your work, exploit you, for as long as they can – until they can find someone younger and more talented who will work…
It has been a long-held belief that adolescence is a time of emotional turmoil. There is no shortage of people who have confirmed this claim. The first notable mention can be traced back to 1904, when the first…
“Human Nature and the Principle of Least Effort,” written by linguist and philologist George Kingsley Zipf, is an influential work that offers an extensive exploration of human behavior, focusing on the patterns and…
Many people and psychologists think that memory is stored in the brain the way we store information in a tape recorder, but our recollection of the past is not nearly so accurate.
The French established protectorates across North Africa but they were not all of the same kind. The Gulf peninsula was ruled by tribally based federations tied together through political and religious affiliations.
The idea of deception is easy for most people to understand. It is not a puzzle that some people are able to deceive others. It is not difficult to think of many reasons why they would do so. But why…
Individuation Carl Jung said that the first impediment to individuation is the persona. The individuation process steps requires you to: 1. Incorporate your unconscious in a healthy way by recognizing your persona 2.
To know yourself and to know others is useful because you will be better able to conduct yourself in the world. Without error, you don’t learn. But to learn, you have to undergo the painful experience of destroying…
A surprising number of adults believe that if they fixate on an object, emissions come out. Piaget observed that this belief begins early in life. He notes the case of one child who thought that the looks of two…
The brain has several types of memory systems. One type follows four stages of processing: encoding, storing, retrieving, and forgetting. Hermann Ebbinghaus was born in 1850, he was famous for discovering that people…
Ebbinghaus showed us the power of repetition 100 years ago. The loss of memory that occurs one to two hours after learning something can be lessened by deliberate repetitions. The key is to space out the input.
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