“ “You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.” ~ Plato Have you ever played with kaleidoscopes – those tubes of mirrors with colorful beads? You turn and shake them, and the stones form different patterns, reflecting off the mirrors. Our minds can be like [...]
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“I can do Parkour for the rest of my life without even moving, just efficient thinking.” ~ Ryan Doyle If you are not sure what Parkour is, here is how Wikipedia describes it: Parkour (sometimes abbreviated PK) is a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency. Originally developed in France, [...]
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Supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), a team at Queen’s University Belfast is exploring whether people can be trained to make better decisions by improving their ability to recognize and make allowances for their subjective opinions and biases. This interdisciplinary project harnesses leading-edge expertise in mathematics, statistics, critical thinking, knowledge management [...]
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Some time ago I watched a TED presentation by Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of “Eat, Pray, Love” on nurturing creativity. Talking about the pressures of creative work, felt especially strongly after a hugely successful book, Elizabeth Gilbert described how writers and poets had relied for centuries on their creative genius, or muse, to keep them inspired [...]
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If you need to boost your brain power for an important task that demands working memory, self-monitoring, and the ability to suppress external and internal distractions, you now have an excuse to procrastinate by engaging in a pleasant chat with friends. A recent University of Michigan study indicates that friendly conversations boost executive function while [...]
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With exclusive interviews from
Dr. Farhad Saba,
Dr. Rosemary Lehman,
Dr. Donna Gibbs,
Dr.Germain-Rutherford,
Anastasia Pryanikova, M.A., J.D.,
and James Breeze.
