The Unburdened Mind • Damn Interesting
“I don’t think I feel things the same way you do.” The man sits at the table in the well-fitted attire of success—charming, witty, and instantly likeable. He is a confident, animated speaker, but he seems to be struggling with this particular point. “It’s like… at my first job,” he continues, “I was stealing maybe a thousand bucks a month from that place. And this kid, he was new, he got wise. His name is Frank, and he is a psychopath. In the public imagination, a “psychopath” is a violent serial killer or an over-the-top movie villain, as one sometimes might suspect Frank to be. “[M]y mother, the most beautiful person in the world. The word psychopathy dates back in an early form to the 19th century, but as a modern term it’s primarily used in reference to the work of Canadian psychologist Robert Hare. The psychopath’s world is a strikingly skewed one in which the normal laws of human emotion and interaction do not apply—yet it serves as reality for a sizable portion of humanity.
How To Be Loved By Everyone: 6 Powerful Secrets
We would all like to know how to be loved by everyone. In the end, who are our favorite people? Those who understand us and listen. Someone we can turn to and honestly say, “You get me.” That really comes down to one skill: listening. In an age of sub-zero attention spans, focus is a superpower. When I asked the #1 love researcher, John Gottman, what the best thing to do to improve a relationship was, what did he say? Learn how to be a good listener. And it’s no different at the office. They didn’t feel their boss listened to them. Via Powerful Listening. Another study released by the US Department of Labor concluded that 46 percent of those who quit their jobs did so because they felt not listened to and were therefore unappreciated. So listening is serious business. 1) Be A Detective Don’t think of a conversation as a tennis match. Via Just Listen: Discover the Secret to Getting Through to Absolutely Anyone: How do you master the skill of being interested— and be sincere when you do it?
Speech patterns give away psychopaths
NEW YORK — Psychopaths are known to be wily and manipulative, but even so, they unconsciously betray themselves, according to scientists who have looked for patterns in convicted murderers' speech as they described their crimes. The researchers interviewed 52 convicted murderers, 14 of them ranked as psychopaths according to the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, a 20-item assessment, and asked them to describe their crimes in detail. Using computer programs to analyze what the men said, the researchers found that those with psychopathic scores showed a lack of emotion, spoke in terms of cause-and-effect when describing their crimes, and focused their attention on basic needs, such as food, drink and money. [10 Contested Death Penalty Cases] "The beautiful thing about them is they are unconsciously produced," Hancock said. These unconscious actions can reveal the psychological dynamics in a speaker's mind even though he or she is unaware of it, Hancock said. What it means to be a psychopath
Spiritless Humans - Matrix
(This article replaces Matrix Agents: Profiles and Analysis) Empty people. Puppet people. Cardboard cutouts. Drones. Organic Portals. Over the years I have received emails from readers who came to this same conclusion. Background The idea of empty people first dawned on me in 1999 after having done much research into sociopaths and psychopaths, their condition being medically known as APD or “Antisocial Personality Disorder.” Eventually I realized that this same root condition was present in some others who were not outwardly sociopathic, but whose lack of heart was masked by a well-adapted social exterior. But what exactly is missing in them? Behavioral and Psychic Characteristics Their behavior tends toward being glib, shallow, egotistical, narcissistic, mundane, predatory, and materialistic. Psychically scanning their consciousness reveals something interesting. Spirit: The Missing Component What to call this higher component of consciousness absent in some people? Other Components Dr.
7 Quiz Websites to Keep Your Brain Sharp – Johnny Lists
by Johnny Webber 1. Sporcle – Quizzes on every facet of trivia out there. 2. Math Run – Test your math knowledge. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
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It’s a dying art, struck down by text, email and messaging. So can we be taught how to talk to each other? Perhaps it was the opium talking, but Thomas de Quincey once wrote that an evening in the company of Samuel Coleridge was “like some great river”. Most of us have hopefully felt the unmoored elation of staying up all night talking with a friend or a lover. What makes a good conversationalist has changed little over the years. And so I found myself one cold Tuesday evening in February talking to complete strangers, nibbling on vegetable quiche and sipping blackcurrant cordial. I had arrived about 20 minutes early but the rest of the class was already there, talking to each other in the school shop that served that evening as a reception room. Another pupil shuffled over and kindly invited me into her circle. Worries about the effect of technology on conversation are not new; George Orwell bemoaned houses having a radio in every room. For I had misjudged the evening, too.
The Greatest Epidemic Sickness Known to Humanity
The following is Part One in a series. Read Part Two here. In the book Columbus and other Cannibals, indigenous author Jack D. Forbes lucidly explores a psychological disease that has been informing human self-destructive behavior that Native American people have known about for years. After reading his book, it was clear to me that he was describing the same psycho-spiritual disease of the soul that I wrote about in my book, The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of our Collective Psychosis. As if performing a magic ritual, in exploring the entity of wetiko, we first have to invoke its spirit and enter into relationship with it. After evoking an entity like wetiko, in order to study it as objectively as possible, we have to hermetically seal it within an alchemical container. A Disease of Civilization Wetiko/malignant egophrenia is a disease of civilization, or lack thereof. A Parasite of a Different Order Alien Intrusion To quote Don Juan, "Indeed we are held prisoner! Vampires
13 Amazing Facts About Your Brain
13 Amazing Facts About Your Brain 13 Ultimate Facts About Your Brain Did you know that your brain needs to make an effort when you laugh at a joke and 12 percent of our dreams are in black and white? Let’s have a look at some amazing facts about the human brain: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
What to Write Down During a Class Lecture
I dunno. I sometimes surprise people with what I can remember, but while I think it's important to remember the concept discussed, certain details may not be remembered unless your professor does upload the slides or offers a study guide. Are these offerings pretty consistently offered? If so, paying attention may be all you need. If you're unsure, better take notes. The cues mentioned here are pretty "duh", though. I agree with you and rarely take notes myself but I have noticed it does tend to allow my mind to wander more which means I pay less attention. Also, writing something down does tend to etch it in your mind slightly deeper making it harder to forget. I think it may depend on the subject. In less technical fields, the teachers are sometimes lazy (although they try to blame the students), the material is less susceptible to outlining, or it's just not that hard in comparison with something like computer science. I don't think much of this guide.
