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The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1580438,00.html The finding was in line with a growing number of discoveries at the time showing that greater use of a particular muscle causes the brain to devote more cortical real estate to it. But Pascual-Leone did not stop there. He extended the experiment by ...

We Are Penn State: The End Of Team Identity Written by: Karie Meltzer Social psychologists use two terms: BIRGing and CORFing -- Basking in Reflected Glory and Cutting off Reflected Failure. In the first, fans of a football team, for example, want to identify with the players' success. Decked out ...

Three Tips for Navigating a Career Change HBR Tip Whether you’re starting your own business or joining a different industry, making a mid-career move can be a challenge. Consider these three tips when contemplating a shift in your career trajectory: •Prepare to feel scared and lonely. Career moves can often involve loss ...

This post prompted by Strategy+Business article, How to Prepare for a Black Swan: Disrupter analysis can help assess the risks of future catastrophic events. by Matthew Le Merle Black Swan: High-magnitude, low-frequency upheavals that Nassim Nicholas Taleb labeled black swans, a historical reference to their improbability. In The Black Swan: The ...

Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change , Timothy D Wilson "To summarize, the story-editing approach tries to change people’s personal interpretations of themselves and the social world in ways that make them happier and lead to more desirable behaviors. It is a family of approaches developed by social ...

How to Silence Your Inner Critic By Jeremy Greenberg If you’re not achieving all of your personal and professional goals, and living the life you want, it’s probably because there’s someone holding you back. And guess what? That “someone” is you! Or, more specifically, your overly-critical inner voice might be what’s ...

Stages of Change Model (SMC) Before you begin to make changes in your life, I would like to introduce you to a useful theory — called the Stages of Change Model, or SCM — about the mind/body stages we go through when we do change. The Stages of Change Model was ...

The Monk with Sweaty Palms In A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle Kasan, a Zen teacher and monk, was to officiate at a funeral of a famous nobleman. As he stood there waiting for the governor of the province and other lords and ladies, to arrive, he noticed that the palms of his ...

Why Winners Win at … The new science of triumph in sports, business, and life. by Nick Summers What is it that separates winners from losers? The pat answer is that, in sports at least, winners simply have certain things that mortals don’t—as one might conclude from watching the suddenly ...

Research: Unemployment plays role in early deaths By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Being unemployed increases a person's risk of premature death by 63% In the new study, investigators analyzed 40 years of data from 20 million people in 15 countries and found that being unemployed increases a person's risk of premature death by ...