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Show Business Survival Kit: Patience
Read more: Show Business Survival Kit: PatienceWisdom from therapist Dennis Palumbo on the Huffington Post: Nowadays, few writers are advised to cultivate patience. There’s a lot of pressure to just write, to get it out there, to strive mightily to come up with the next high concept (“You got anything like Iron Man?” “We’re looking for another Harry Potter-type book.” “How about…
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How Other People’s Unspoken Expectations Control Us
Read more: How Other People’s Unspoken Expectations Control UsFrom a “10 Brilliant Social Psychology Studies” series on PsyBlog: A good exercise for learning about yourself is to think about how other people might view you in different ways. Consider how your family, your work colleagues or your partner think of you. Now here’s an interesting question: to what extent do you play up…
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Science and the Profile Picture
Read more: Science and the Profile PictureFor online dating site users, here’s a statistical analysis of picture styles (smiling, looking at the camera, clothed, doing something interesting, etc.) versus number of initial contacts. May be vaguely useful, and for others, vaguely entertaining. To write this piece, we cataloged over 7,000 photographs on OkCupid.com…In looking closely at the astonishingly wide variety of…
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Meditation Bliss-Ninnies
Read more: Meditation Bliss-NinniesOn theme: Marcia Lucas, PhD blogs a response at Psychology Today re meditation as zoning out. Here’s the polite version of a question I received recently about my support of mindfulness meditation as a practice for well-being in relationships: Why are you encouraging people to zone out? Sitting around pretending they’re above it all, and avoiding…
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Take a Breath
Read more: Take a BreathFrom my blog on PsychologyToday.com – Crisis Knocks: One of the simplest ways to begin coping in a crisis, or to just get through the stresses of an ordinary day, has been there all along: Breathe. Dorothy could’ve gotten home long ago with the help of her ruby slippers; you may find that simply breathing,…