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Journaling for Grief
Read more: Journaling for GriefHelpful tips from Beth S. Patterson (GoodTherapy.org): I often suggest journal writing to my clients who are grieving the death of a loved one or dealing with a difficult life change as a useful way to deal with and befriend the intense emotions that often accompany these experiences. Some say, “oh, I’m not a good…
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Improving Your Cognitive Toolkit
Read more: Improving Your Cognitive ToolkitThe question by the Edge Foundation: “What scientific concept would improve everybody’s cognitive toolkit?” 163 answers are here. Here’s a sampling: – “Cognitive load” from Nicholas Carr: a limitation in how much information entering our consciousness we can process at any instant; – “The Pareto principle” from Clay Shirky: a reminder that the richest or busiest or…
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Social Animal
Read more: Social AnimalDavid Brooks pays tribute to brain science in a big New Yorker piece. Help comes from the strangest places. We are living in the middle of a revolution in consciousness. Over the past few decades, geneticists, neuroscientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and others have made great strides in understanding the inner working of the human mind. Far…
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The Mind’s Eye
Read more: The Mind’s EyeLatest by writing neuologist, Oliver Sacks is excerpted here, read from/discussed live here. A handful of Sacks’ New Yorker pieces are available in-full here. The excerpt begins like this: Dear Dr. Sacks, My (very unusual) problem, in one sentence, and in non-medical terms, is: I can’t read. I can’t read music, or anything else. In the…