Jonah Lehrer wrote an excellent article for the Wall Street Journal on why New Year’s resolutions fail.
Quick overview of reasons:
The more overloaded our brain is with ’stuff’ (including resolutions we need to keep track of), the weaker its willpower is. We need to spread our resolutions across the year.
Just like a muscle, our will-power [...]
Mental Workout produce Mp3s and mobile phone apps focused around resolving issues and improving mental performance. I’ve been listening to their Positive Psychology product for a week or two now, and thought I’d let you know a little bit about it.
The package contains 12 tracks, each covering a different area of applied positive psychology, [...]
A lucid dream is quite a different experience to a normal one. In a normal dream, the experience is like a film. You’re just watching what goes on, albeit from a first-person perspective, and you cannot control anything despite an illusory sense of agency.
In a lucid dream, you wake up during the film. [...]
What happens to the brain if you spend 44,000 hours in focused meditation?
This is a question Richard Davidson and his neuroscience team asked. To answer it, they took experienced Tibetan monks to their lab at the University of Wisconsin, and took various scans of their brains. Is the Buddhist brain fundamentally different than [...]
I saw an anti-smoking pop-up the other day. I hate pop-ups, pop-unders, pop-throughs and pop-whatever-else-they’ve-come-up-with, but I did appreciate the message. Not enough to make me like pop-ups, but it was nice to know they’re being used for a good purpose, at least. If I remember rightly it mentioned some of the [...]
I found an interesting site with free info on the brain, called Brain Rules. It’s by John Medina, and is basically promoting his DVD/Book of the same name. Medina is a developmental molecular biologist who has put together this product based on research into the brain and how it works.
It’s meant to be both interesting [...]
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