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One piece of good news is that using the Internet, particularly searching the Web, can slow our normal age-related cognitive decline. Googling is good for your brain. As Dr. Gary Small, Director of UCLA’s Memory Clinic and Center on Aging, said in an interview, “Our study ‘Your brain on Google: Patterns of cerebral activation during [...]
“I may think in pictures, but first I write everything out in words.” Brian Selznick Brian Selznick’s 2007 novel “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” – the basis for the new Martin Scorsese movie “Hugo” – “introduced an innovative strategy for blending words and images, interweaving narrative and picture sequences to tell two sides of a [...]
Can we really multitask effectively? Or keep “many plates in the air”? Most of us try, with varying degrees of success. Here is an excerpt from a new article in The Atlantic about what is going on. If Multitasking Is Impossible, Why Are Some People So Good at It? By Derek Thompson, senior editor at [...]
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Leonardo da Vinci “We tried to make something much more holistic and simple.” Steve Jobs Commenting about the iPod, Steve Jobs said “Look at the design of a lot of consumer products — they’re really complicated surfaces. We tried to make something much more holistic and simple.” Michael Gelb is [...]
“I don’t know if any entrepreneur ever feels like they truly made it, because entrepreneurs in general are people that want to create something new.” “One of the things that I teach people is to not live in their mind, but to stay very engaged in the moment and stay engaged in action. “When you [...]
Erin Brockovich commented about the famous Hinkley, California vs PG&E lawsuit featured in the movie (starring Julia Roberts) and using her dyslexia: “I can still go through all 634 plaintiffs. I learned to do that because of my dyslexia. I had no real coping skills; I could not read and comprehend in my brain the [...]
A profile by the Institute of Noetic Sciences notes that Morty Lefkoe “made a series of discoveries that allowed him to help people make permanent changes in their emotions and behavior.” His program, The Lefkoe Method, is based on overcoming beliefs that impact our self-esteem, anxiety, confidence, fear of public speaking and other challenges. Based [...]
“Artists must be poor and sacrifice their well-being for their art.” “Artists are ‘bad’ at marketing.” “Artists should accept the solitary life and find solutions on their own.” “You can’t be a mother and a successful artist.” Those are a few of the kinds of self-limiting ideas and myths that Alyson Stanfield of Art Biz [...]
“You’re happy if you think you’re happy.” Gretchen Rubin How much of our happiness and satisfaction in life is due to circumstance or other people, and how much is it a matter of conscious choice? In the new movie The Adjustment Bureau (written and directed by George Nolfi, based on a short story by Philip [...]
In his new post Why Daydreamers Are More Creative, cognitive psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD covers a number of fascinating topics relating to the creative mind, and he explains, “Latent inhibition is a filtering mechanism that we share with other animals…[and] involves the ability to consider something as relevant even if it was previously tagged [...]
Among his many wise and witty observations on being human, Mark Twain commented about some of our thinking: “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” Morty Lefkoe addresses the nature of self-limiting beliefs and how to overcome them in programs of [...]
Painter Rebecca Alzofon thinks “sitting still and letting ideas pass through you” is a necessary part of the creative process. “Creative work doesn’t start without stillness.” But it may take some fortitude discipline to stop ‘doing’ all the time. “A lot of people panic at first,” she says, “if they’re not used to this, they [...]
As one of the characters in the movie “Hereafter,” Matt Damon portrays an intuitve, someone who seems to be able to communicate with dead people. One of the other characters impacted by those abilities is Marie, played by Bryce Dallas Howard, who revealed in a recent news story her own psychic experiences. She knew early [...]
“It’s hard to focus. It’s hard to have a conversation without checking the iPhone. It’s hard to go to a shrink and spend a few minutes on the couch and not need to see what’s happening…. It’s even hard to finish a thought.” That is a quote from the article A creative retreat in the [...]
“I believe I can fly; I believe I can touch the sky; I think about it every night and day; Spread my wings and fly away; I believe I can soar…” Dick (Jim Carrey) from a scene in Fun with Dick and Jane. Feeling exuberantly self-assured after getting a promotion, he sings the R. Kelly [...]
“As Beckett said: ‘You’re on earth, there’s no cure for that.’ Klimt and his circle didn’t believe that, which I find very haunting and wonderful. They were probably less pessimistic than we are.” John Malkovich – about portraying artist Gustav Klimt – from the page Existential Dread. In her article A Brief Outline of Existential [...]
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Site author: Douglas Eby, M.A./Psychology, is a writer and researcher on the psychology of creative expression and personal growth, especially for high ability adults. He is publisher of the Talent Development Resources series of sites.
