Archive for the 'Psychology' Category

Thrashing Duck Syndrome

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Most people like to create the perception of having it all figured out. Most people have duck syndrome.
These are people who look calm on the surface but are paddling furiously just to stay afloat.
It’s important to be able to present yourself well, but I find the paddling much more interesting. How do you brush the [...]

Elite Are Elite Because They Have Better Genes. But For How Long?

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Lessons in Survivial an article than ran in Newsweek details an experiment run at military training camp that explains scientifically why Special Forces units are able to bounce back faster than ordinary soldiers. The study shows that their bodies are simply genetically better suited for enduring and recovering from high pressure, high stress situations.
Morgan found [...]

Update: Are Happiness and Innovation at Odds?

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

See the original post here.
What motivates people is something that interests me. I do not think reactivity is the core of innovation, but I do think it plays a notable role. All areas of life bleed into one another and shade them accordingly. Sectors of life don’t exist in isolation. In rereading my post I [...]

Are Happiness and Innovation at Odds?

Friday, February 13th, 2009

See update to this post.
It seems many people’s innovative drive come from a reactive desire to prove themselves. They try to prove, often to the opposite sex, that they are someone worth knowing by showing they are extremely competent in some unrelated discipline like science or technology. It pains me to see people with such a distorted sense of reality. [...]