Women have always known that they can get what they want by making men think it was their idea. So, why don’t they remember that in the workplace? If we look at it differently, studies also show that when we talk to someone, we remember 65% of what we said and only 35% of what the other person said. Many is the time when someone is recounting a story to me and at the end of it, I’ll ask, “And …
The interesting thing about thinking is that everyone thinks they think. I have listened to the thought process of many people and the sad fact is that so many of them are merely repeating the thoughts of others that they have heard or read about. I posed a question to a man and I was impressed by his answer. It was a well thought out answer and, until that moment, I had not given him enough credit for his thinking …
I have often wondered why parents spend more time training their children to follow orders rather than training them to think for themselves. In a culture where the common belief is that the masses are asses, it would make more sense to teach our children how to lead, rather than how to follow. The military takes to heart the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem, The Charge of the Light Brigade, “Theirs not to make reply,/ Theirs not …
To a large degree, we are judged by a combination of things that, individually, would mean nothing at all. Where a person works would not necessarily be a measure of one’s intelligence although it might be a measure of one’s ambition. Under ordinary circumstances, I wouldn’t have made a connection between one’s work environment being equal to one’s intelligence, but the other day, I must confess, that’s exactly what I did. I was having my groceries rung up at the …
This is one of those Ripley’s Believe it or Not stories. According to a new study by Harvard researchers, they concluded after studying just 60 people over the age of 65 that “drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day for thirty days was linked with improved blood flow to the brain and better scores on memory and thinking skill tests for elderly people with impaired blood flow.” They claim that “As different areas of the brain need more energy …
Most of the time, even when people are having a difficult time meeting their bills, the toy stores seem to have customers buying toys for their children. But, do children really need toys? Fisher-Price would have us believe that they do as most of their toys are marked Educational. On the plus side, they do teach children about the world around them which can lead to developing their social and cognitive skills. On the negative side, they can stymie their …