A recent blog article on the Harvard Business Review website discusses whether the Internet (and all that comes with it—Google, smart phones, etc.) is causing us to have shorter attention spans. The article addresses the premise behind author Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. (I wrote about the book and this topic in another post.) This is what the article’ s author has to say: In complete scientific (Read entire post…)
You probably realize that memory doesn’t work exactly like a video recording. If it did, then you wouldn’t forget where you put your car keys or the name of the person you met at a party last week. You could simply think about the past and magically recall everything in great accuracy. Even so, you may not realize the extent to which your memory of events, people, places, and experiences can be inaccurate. Memory is (Read entire post…)
Is optimism always more beneficial than pessimism? Many of us have heard our entire lives to be positive—to see the glass as half full instead of half empty. The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale, an international bestseller first published in 1952, touted the benefits of thinking optimistically. Certainly, it’s beneficial to have a positive outlook in life, but are there circumstances in which pessimism trumps optimism? In a 2001 book entitled The (Read entire post…)