Motivational, empowering, life-changing ideas & techniques
Submitted by Steaphen on Wed, 15/09/2010 - 8:46am
Last night as I watched a televised studio-debate on sexual harassment in the workforce, I found that I was feeling increasingly troubled. This trouble I sense is of particular relevance and importance to those who want to get great outcomes (This post was originally written as a blog article on my Belief Doctor website - hence its long-winded style, but is now read-only to the LGGO Groups).
During the debate about how bad and uneducated the perpetrators were it seemed to me that a great big elephant in the room was being steadfastly ignored.
Submitted by Steaphen on Fri, 10/09/2010 - 6:06am
While chatting with a very interesting, dynamic entrepreneur and scientist, the subject of fear was discussed.
While initially the idea that death was our greatest fear, I remembered that studies reveal our greatest fear, or at least what is held at the forefront of our cares and concerns, is public speaking.
It seems to me that public speaking is indicative of our fear of others, not of death. Thinking and chatting on it in more depth, we realised that it is fear of what others think that mostly constrains or limits our behaviours.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sun, 15/01/2012 - 2:12pm
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 11:08am
A healthy social life may be as good for your long-term health as avoiding cigarettes, according to a massive research review released Tuesday by the journal PLoS Medicine.
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those with poor social connections had on average 50% higher odds of death in the study's follow-up period (an average of 7.5 years) than people with more robust social ties.
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The immune systems of people with lots of friends simply worked better, fighting off the cold virus often without symptoms.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Thu, 21/04/2011 - 5:51am
Factors in living a long-life.
Friedman and Martin unhesitatingly say the single strongest social predictor of long life is a strong network. Widows outlive widowers; women tend to have stronger social networks. Interestingly, neurotic widowers tended to outlive their less neurotic peers – they were more likely to take care of their health after their wives were gone.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 02/03/2011 - 7:04am
Paul Romer's ideas on how best to develop a sustainable, creative and fulfilling future (for all)
“Groups of people always find it difficult to change the rules, even when other rules would clearly be better. Charter cities—dozens of them, perhaps even hundreds—could be the skunkworks that bring systemic change to entire nations. Ultimately, they could give the billions of people who will soon move to cities the chance to experiment with, and opt into, rules that let them achieve their full potential.” —Paul Romer (Harvard Business Review)"
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Submitted by procreative-admin on Mon, 20/12/2010 - 2:43am
Recommended reading: An interesting article that confirms age-old truths about being creative -- focus, and let go (or in this case, "drop out").
Thiel says the huge cost of higher education, and the resulting burden of debt, makes students less willing to take risks. "And we think you're going to have to take a lot of risks to build the next generation of companies."
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