Psych links

[chanaleh]

Though this is the sort of list some bloggers call "closing tabs"... in recent months, I have instead been keeping a little "clips" list of online articles of interest, in the interest of posting them (without overmuch additional comment) whenever I seem to have amassed a collection on a particular theme or topic. (I do this, like all my ongoing lists-in-progress these days, in a saved Gmail draft.)


"Positive feedback is like bass, inefficiently heard. Negative feedback is like guitar, heard all too efficiently. To be as negative as you are positive is like a guitarist matching wattage with us bassists. A guitarist with a 500 watt amp would be deafening and anyone who tries to maintain an equal balance between discouragement and encouragement can be deafeningly discouraging."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ambigamy/200907/why-be-nice-because-us-chickens-little-negativity-goes-long-way

"A growing body of research shows that: 1) information is stored in our physical bodies at a cellular level, 2) every thought and feeling creates a physiological effect that is etched into our cells, and 3) this information exerts a profound yet largely subliminal influence on our perceptions, behaviors and experience."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-in-body/200907/are-you-sperm-or-egg

By way of jcbigler some weeks ago, How to be a genius: "It seems the ability we're so fond of calling talent or even genius arises not from innate gifts but from an interplay of fair (but not extraordinary) natural ability, quality instruction, and a mountain of work."
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125691.300-how-to-be-a-genius.html

From The Fluent Self, by way of cthulhia just today, The Art of the Ask: "Ask and you shall receive? Or, whatever, maybe not. [But ...] 'If you don’t ask, you don’t get … so I’m asking.'”
http://www.fluentself.com/blog/habits/art-of-the-ask/

(This also reminds me of a development article I read earlier this year, about how the art of fundraising is really about giving people the opportunity to support causes that are personally meaningful to them... this might have been by way of PEJE (the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education), but I can't find the reference now. I'll have to look for it; it was nice.)


With that, I'm off to do another moving run, and thence to birthday bowling.

Comments

[c1.livejournal.com]

I see your post on Genius, and I raise you another post on Genius:

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html
Elizabeth Gilbert speaks at TED about nurturing creativity.

I especially liked the bit about Ruth Stone, the one about Tom Waits, and I had a good laugh at manic-depressive chemical engineers.


This one was also good:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Sir Ken Robinson on how schools kill creativity.

The bit about Gillian Lynne resonated with me.