To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
Feodor Dostoevsky
Monday, August 31, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Always Look on the Bright Side
A negative outlook on life is bad for your health, right? That common sense truth has just gotten a boost from a major study that finds a strong link between attitude and health.
More than 97,000 women age 50 to 79 were surveyed twice with eight years between the surveys. They were all free of cancer and heart disease the first time. University of Pittsburgh researchers found the optimists were 9% less likely to have developed heart disease and 14% less likely to have died during the intervening eight years. Women with a lot of cynical hostility were 16% more likely to die. The relationship was there even after taking into account pre-existing good health habits.
Read more about the federally funded Women's Health Initiative project in the journal Circulation, published by the American Heart Association.
Stephen Goforth
More than 97,000 women age 50 to 79 were surveyed twice with eight years between the surveys. They were all free of cancer and heart disease the first time. University of Pittsburgh researchers found the optimists were 9% less likely to have developed heart disease and 14% less likely to have died during the intervening eight years. Women with a lot of cynical hostility were 16% more likely to die. The relationship was there even after taking into account pre-existing good health habits.
Read more about the federally funded Women's Health Initiative project in the journal Circulation, published by the American Heart Association.
Stephen Goforth
Monday, August 24, 2009
Success & Value
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Parenting Advice
The billion-dollar industry of quote-unquote educational toys that are supposed to make your baby smarter is a boondoggle. There's no evidence that any of those things make a difference. Children are learning the way that other people's minds work, which is much more important to learn than even letters and numbers. I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Alison Gopnik in an interview with TIME magazine about her book The Philosophical Baby
Friday, August 21, 2009
Our Finest Moments
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.
M. Scott Peck
M. Scott Peck
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Life's Truth
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming sweet, bitter…and that is everything.
Anatole France
A Pipeline to Greener Sewers
Researchers in Portugal were able to stress rats until they fell into a vicious cycle of clinging to familiar routines and rote responses to their environment. The rodents became predisposed to doing the same things over and over. Even worse, the parts of their brain associated with goal-directed behaviors shriveled. At the same time, the sectors linked to habit forming grew.
Ever find yourself in a rut, digging yourself deeper? We often don’t recognize when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. Instead of trying something new, we bear down and repeat the same routine, thinking that if we just try harder, we’ll make it work.
Maybe it's time to break out of the box.
The study is detailed in the journal Science.
Stephen Goforth
Ever find yourself in a rut, digging yourself deeper? We often don’t recognize when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. Instead of trying something new, we bear down and repeat the same routine, thinking that if we just try harder, we’ll make it work.
Maybe it's time to break out of the box.
The study is detailed in the journal Science.
Stephen Goforth
Monday, August 17, 2009
Truth & Love
Truth and love are two of the most powerful things in the world; and when they both go together they cannot be easily withstood.
Ralph Cudworth
Ralph Cudworth
Friday, August 14, 2009
The Measure of a Man
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Praise and Criticism
The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise rather than saved by criticism.
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Unwrapping Today
Today: one which I’ve never lived before and one which I will never get to live again. The surprise of unwrapping it holds wonder and the privilege of excitement.
Tim Hansel
Friday, August 7, 2009
Keep Asking Questions
A few years ago, I got a call (on my communication device) from a Pittsburgh author named Chip Walter. He was co-writing a book with William Shatner (a.k.a Kirk) about how scientific breakthroughs first imagined on Star Trek foreshadowed today’s technological advances. Captain Kirk wanted to visit my virtual reality lab at Carnegie Mellon.
Shatner stayed for three hours and asked tons of questions. A colleague later said to me: “He just kept asking and asking. He doesn’t seem to get it.”
But I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean, Shatner was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn’t know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn’t want to leave until he understood. That’s heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.
Randy Pausch
The Last Lecture
Shatner stayed for three hours and asked tons of questions. A colleague later said to me: “He just kept asking and asking. He doesn’t seem to get it.”
But I was hugely impressed. Kirk, I mean, Shatner was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn’t know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn’t want to leave until he understood. That’s heroic to me. I wish every grad student had that attitude.
Randy Pausch
The Last Lecture
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
New Starts
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Monday, August 3, 2009
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