" 11 Simple Ways to Create Genuine Connections with the People Who Make Failure Impossible
‘You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’ ~Jim Rohn Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Scott Dinsmore of Live Your Legend. There’s probably one thing we can agree on: The people around you dictate your success. They can also forecast our failure. There is no faster, more effective way to fill the gap between where you are and where you aspire to be than having the right passionate and supportive people in your corner.
Three Kinds of Empathy: Cognitive, Emotional, Compassionate
Being cool in crisis seems essential for our being able to think clearly. But what if keeping cool makes you too cold to care? In other words, must we sacrifice empathy to stay calm? That’s the dilemma facing those who are preparing top teams to handle the next Katrina-like catastrophe we might face. Which gets me to Paul Ekman, a world expert on emotions and our ability to read and respond to them in others.
College: History: History Study Guides
Original guides and modifications of guides contributed by current and past History Department faculty members Kirk Jeffrey, Diethelm Prowe, Rachel Seidman, Harry Williams, Eleanor Zelliot, and others. If you have written or modified anything included in this project, please contact us so we can acknowledge your good help. Thanks, John Heydinger, '08, for suggesting that we include the End Note download site.
How to Criticize (and Take Criticism)
Dealing with criticism is a skill every well-adjusted man should possess. We give and take criticism among our co-workers, our friends, and our family. Criticism is an important part of our personal self improvement, for it is other people who can point out mistakes and shortcomings that we can’t see because we lack objectivity. Unfortunately, many young men today don’t know how to offer and accept criticism like a man. Instead they handle criticism like little boys.
The Art of Non-Conformity
Challenging Authority Since 1978 I am a writer, traveler, and entrepreneur with the goal of visiting every country in the world while connecting with other world-changers. Continue reading about Chris Mission Accomplished!
Anxiety, Depression & Addiction - 3 Common Mental Health Issues Treatable with Psychedelics
Anna Hunt, Staff WriterWaking Times Despite the complicated social perspective regarding psychedelics, more research and attention is being given to the use of psychedelic substances such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin mushrooms, and plants such as ayahuasca to treat mental illnesses, including depression, anxiety, alcoholism and drug addiction. Psychedelics interact with serotonin receptors in the brain and have a way of enabling people to consider new perspectives and possibilities in life.
MYP Humanities
MYP Humanities at NIS encourages learners to respect and understand the world around them and equips them with a skills base appropriate for a learner in the 21st century. The Humanities team is, left to right: Mr Langston, Ruth Clarke, Mr Underwood, Ms Despault, Mr Clarke, Ms Turnidge and Mr Battye. Please browse this site for content and resources related to courses in this subject area. Across the top are grade level links, with sub-links to specific units. To access another subject area or school level, please go to the NIS logo in the upper left hand corner of the screen and choose from the drop-down menu. NIS Students and Parents: To access specific assignments and class details, please log in to your Veracross portal.
The Benefits of Minimalism – Simplicity and Freedom
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Spring Break of my freshman year of college I went on a 4-day backpacking trip in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico. My partner in adventure, Lucas, was a former Wyoming backpacking guide turned potter-philosopher, the perfect companion for days wandering the woods processing what comes about with the sudden cleaving from the static of modern living. A year prior we had traipsed around Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska on a 14-day trip that cemented our friendship…and wanderlust. While discussing the details of the Gila trip, we decided to challenge ourselves to go ultralight.
10 Tips to Let Go of the Past & Embrace the Future
"Two monks were on a pilgrimage. One day, they came to a deep river. At the edge of the river, a young woman sat weeping because she was afraid to cross the river without help. She begged the two monks to help her. The younger monk turned his back.
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
by Maria Popova How your memories impact your immune system, why moving is one of the most stressful life-events, and what your parents have to do with your predisposition to PTSD. I had lived thirty good years before enduring my first food poisoning — odds quite fortunate in the grand scheme of things, but miserably unfortunate in the immediate experience of it. I found myself completely incapacitated to erect the pillars of my daily life — too cognitively foggy to read and write, too physically weak to work out or even meditate.
Why Study History? (1998)
By Peter N. Stearns People live in the present. They plan for and worry about the future. History, however, is the study of the past. Given all the demands that press in from living in the present and anticipating what is yet to come, why bother with what has been?
Changing The Creepy Guy Narrative — chrisbrecheen.blogspot.com.au
How being a writer helped me rewrite a sexist trope...for real. [Edit 3 (7/25/13): I speak to some of the more common comments, questions, and criticisms I've recieved in this Mailbox article. Edit 2 (7/18/13): Continue comments at the dedicated entry for the continuation of comments if you want a reply from me.Edit 1 (7/16/13): This post has gone viral and it now accounts for over half the traffic that this blog has ever received since I started it in February of 2012. Unfortunately, that means it's starting to show signs of conforming to the laws governing the "bottom half of the internet." Some really brave and touching stories have come in under Anonymous comments so I really don't want to change the comment policy mid stream; however, rest assured that I'm actually quite okay cheerfully deleting anything that drifts into the territory of abusive or incendiary in its hostility (especially to other readers) . Could "non-writers" have read all these articles and more?
