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		<title>Memory training for increasing brainpower</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts from article Memory Training Shown to Turn Up Brainpower:
A new study has found that it may be possible to train people to be more intelligent, increasing the brainpower they had at birth.
Until now, it had been widely assumed that the kind of mental ability that allows us to solve new problems without having any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/memory-training-for-increasing-brainpower/</link>
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		<title>Does school encourage or limit us?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I have never been a fan of learning in a classroom. Inside a laboratory or a garage, I always wanted to know more, but never inside a classroom.”
That quote is from Caltech physicist Caolionn O&#8217;Connell, PhD, from the site for PBS program Einstein&#8217;s Big Idea. Speaking of Einstein: he was expelled from school (in 1894) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/does-school-encourage-or-limit-us/</link>
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		<title>Living with extreme mental states</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As she noted at the start of her blog (in 2005), writer Liz Spikol &#8220;struggles with mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder and OCD. I was also diagnosed with dissociative disorder N.O.S. &#8212; which means I suffer from intermittent depersonalization and derealization.&#8221;
Here is part of a New York Times article that includes Spikol and others who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/living-with-extreme-mental-states/</link>
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		<title>Novelist Heather Thomas on trophy wives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heather Thomas based her new novel &#8220;Trophies&#8221; on Hollywood trophy wives - women who, she says &#8220;get a bad rap, and there&#8217;s a lot of misconceptions about them. But really, there isn&#8217;t a hospital wing or a library in this city that wasn&#8217;t the result of some trophy wife&#8217;s efforts.&#8221;
Continued on Women and Talent
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		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/novelist-heather-thomas-on-trophy-wives/</link>
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		<title>Resetting our happiness set point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sonja Lyubomirsky, Ph.D., an experimental social psychologist, notes each of us is born with a particular “happiness set point” – &#8220;a baseline or potential for happiness.&#8221; She has conducted &#8220;the first controlled experimental intervention studies to increase and maintain a person’s happiness level over and above&#8221; this set point.
In her book The How of Happiness: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/resetting-our-happiness-set-point/</link>
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		<title>Is it a disorder, or just shyness?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;As a child, I was very shy. Painfully, excruciatingly shy. I hid a lot in my room. I was so terrified to read out loud in school that I had to have my mother ask my reading teacher not to call on me in class.&#8221; - Kim Basinger
Many of us were shy as children, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/is-it-a-disorder-or-just-shyness/</link>
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		<title>Maggie Gyllenhaal on the emotional challenges of acting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maggie Gyllenhaal: [about her film SherryBaby] Obviously, I understood that all the things that happened in the movie were painful for her, but I didn&#8217;t let that into the work. Then all the terrible things I&#8217;ve had to go through surfaced after we&#8217;d finished shooting.
And I got over it. I don&#8217;t think I could play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/maggie-gyllenhaal-on-the-emotional-challenges-of-acting/</link>
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		<title>Valerie Young on the Expert Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In her article How Much Do You Need to Know Before You&#8217;re an Expert?, career counselor Valerie Young of Changing Course describes a number of self-limiting beliefs about qualification and competence. Here are some quotes:
You&#8217;re especially prone to the Expert Trap if you mistakenly believe that competence and expertise are one and the same. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/valerie-young-on-the-expert-trap/</link>
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		<title>Our fascination with teen sexuality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Associated Press article talks about actress, singer and songwriter Miley Cyrus and her &#8220;controversial photo&#8221; at age 15 in Vanity Fair as presenting &#8220;a great opportunity for parents to discuss how seemingly innocuous photos posted to a blog or social networking site can be misinterpreted.&#8221;
But acclaimed author Germaine Greer says, &#8220;No matter how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/our-fascination-with-teen-sexuality/</link>
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		<title>Eckhart Tolle on the dimension within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There’s nothing wrong with doing new things, pursuing activities, exploring new countries, meeting new people, acquiring knowledge and expertise, developing your physical or mental abilities, and creating whatever you’re called upon to create in this world&#8230;
&#8220;Now the question is, Are you looking for yourself in what you do? Are you attempting to add more to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talentdevelop.com/eckhart-tolle-on-the-dimension-within/</link>
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