Beware the Fragmentation of Your Brain
This NY Times article examines the effect of our ever-increasing hyper-connectivity and massive multitasking. It seems we cannot be plugged in all the time, or else we risk developing a form of ADD.
Archive for the ‘Psychology’ Category
Coming Soon, To A Cubicle Near You
Here I go blogging a blog again…but this story melded so well with my last post that I just couldn’t resist: Via Wildmind, a story in the Australian Herald Sun entitled The Business of Meditation, about meditation and the corporate world. The title’s misleading in that the article is not about people making a business [...]
The Psychology of Demonization
An interesting article at Miller-McCune describes recent psych studies that demonstrate how one’s sense of personal power is linked to how we perceive external threats. The less control one feels over one’s life, the more likely one is to perceive influence over one’s life coming from a single enemy. It boils down to how well [...]
The Role of Spiritual Practice
Here’s yet another great Google Tech Talk – Les Kaye on The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World, explaining how a spiritual practice (Buddhist meditation) serves to deepen and improve one’s life. This is what Western society needs – plain talk, practical, down-to-earth information on how to deal with our materialistic malaise, no [...]
Why Conflicts Escalate
The New York Times has a piece by Daniel Gilbert, a Harvard psychology professor, titled He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t, which offers a cogent and immediately understandable explanation of how disputes expand in scope, despite our best intentions.
Perennial Experimentalist
Read this fascinating article at Wired about different types of creatives. It discusses a theory of a continuum of creative styles, with Conceptualists at one end and Experimentalists at the other. Conceptualists are characterized as those brilliant young people who make groundbreaking progress and blow everyone away with their fresh, unconventional thoughts. Experimentalists are the [...]
When Did Clowns Become Frightening?
It seems that the subject of clowns cannot be mentioned these days without someone making the observance that they are primarily creepy and scary. Upon first wondering this, I guessed that evil clown characters in movies from the 1970′s onward are the primary cause of this association. Once again, good old Wikipedia supports my intuition. [...]