Posted on 02/03/2012
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One of the ways I educate myself, while also learning how to improve my speaking skills, is by watching TED talks. I’ve seen many excellent ones… but I think this one is the best.
Posted on 02/01/2012
My questions are many… without any help from me. I don’t try to think them up… they simply are. They invade my brain without permission.
Sometimes there’s not much depth to them and the answers are easy… yes, I think I will add cheese to my salad.
Or even if they have depth, the ebb and flow is manageable and I have enough energy to process them and reach a place of peace.
Other times they come too fast and furious for me to process them all… or maybe it’s that I’m too lazy to seriously think about them, because seriously thinking is hard work.
But they don’t actually leave, they continue dancing around the edge of my mind waiting for a moment when I’m willing to give them the due process they deserve.
I find myself feeling overwhelmed, even beginning to feel depressed.
And I realize avoiding the questions is the reason.
Often the best place for me to give questions the energy, time and process they deserve is when my body is motion.
Posted on 01/30/2012
For decades, we were taught this and shown this popular tongue map to reenforce the teaching. And because of that, many of us were sure we tasted certain flavors on certain areas of our tongue.
Oh the power of suggestion! Though I’m often a skeptic, I believed this tongue map theory for years.
This theory originated from a 1901 paper written by an otherwise fairly well respected Harvard psychologist Edwin G. Boring. It was a mistranslation from a German research paper that included data about the tongue which was taken out of context and the theory was born.
About 70 years later more research was finally done and the tongue map theory was proven to be false.
Here’s a short clip about one man’s thoughts about this theory…
