It’s almost impossible for anyone to continue to choose a life of tedious grief after becoming fully enlightened to the fact that ineffectiveness is a choice, even among the most ineffective of us. It is the direct outcome of unproductive beliefs and behaviors.
So here are nine things to stop believing:
Happiest people live in Latin American countries.
Qatar is the richest county in the world but the world’s happiest people don’t live there. They don’t live in Japan either, the country with the highest life expectancy. With a chart-topping percentage of college graduates in Canada, they didn’t make the top 10 of the happiest people in the world either.
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Many studies have found that women tend to be more averse to risks and losses than men.
The world of business can be brutal and competitive. People often need to take high risks with big payoffs in order to succeed. Attitudes that are risk-taking attitudes are often seen as masculine. The language used to describe such behavior is riddled with phrases like “testosterone-charged” and “cowboys”. Women are seen as being more risk averse. And then there are articles that have asked if the financial crisis might have unfolded differently had women been in charge.
A large majority of patients who receive this news don’t fully comprehend it, or perhaps willfully choose to ignore it.
Often times doctors are called on to deliver bad news to patients. And when they deliver that news it doesn’t get much worse than hearing a diagnosis of an advanced-stage cancer for which there is no cure.
Continue reading… “Three out of four terminal cancer patients believe a cure is possible”
Did you know that every year there are approximately 60,000 trampoline injuries in the United States, and on average, women blink twice as often as men, and smokers lose an average of two teeth every ten years. I didn’t think so.
Continue reading… “43 Fascinating Facts About People”
If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame on you — and go change them now. Bad dog! Continue reading… “The 25 Worst Passwords of 2012”
Popularity pays because those who learn to play the game in high school are figuring out what they need to know to succeed when they enter the workplace.
According to a new study released this week, those in the top fifth of the high school popularity pyramid garnered a 10% wage premium nearly 40 years after graduation, compared to those in the bottom fifth.
Continue reading… “Being popular in school leads to earning more later in life”
Scare unwanted animals away with the Goose Guardian.
Goose Guardian is a wildlife deterrent that utilizes a patent-pending image-based object recognition system to detect the presence of specific species and triggers a hazing device to scare the animals away. Applications in development for the object recognition system include a deer/elk detector for highway traffic safety and a bed exit detector to reduce the risk of patient falls resulting in injury.
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Card friendly fun in the sun at the beach with the Wind Proof Beach Card Table.
Just as it sounds, the Windproof Beach Card Table is a card table designed for playing cards at that is portable lightweight and durable.
The Windproof Beach Card Table is one of the featured exhibitors at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase, which takes place on Oct 13, 2012 at the Denver Merchandise Mart. This is your chance to experience Dash and many other amazing innovations.
Recently, inventor Sean McElduff took a moment answer some questions about sand, cards and portability…
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Scientists, like anyone else, can be prone to bias in their bid for a place in the history books.
For several years, Dirk Smeesters had spent his career as a social psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam studying how consumers behaved in different situations. He studied whether color had an effect on what consumers bought or if death-related stories in the media affected how people picked products. And whether it was better to use supermodels in cosmetics advertising than average-looking women.
Continue reading… “Scientific research threatened by fraud and misconduct”
Choose your career wisely or be swept aside by new innovations.
Karen Richards is unemployed, but it’s not for lack of trying. She estimates that she has sent out about 100 resumés in the past year.
The Arlington resident theorizes that a few factors have prevented her from landing a job: She’s overqualified for some positions, underqualified for others, and the fact that she’s currently out of work may be a turnoff to some employers.
But there’s another problem that she says could be holding her back. The legal sector is using new software for research and client management, and she isn’t familiar with it…
Continue reading… “Job seekers find it difficult to keep up with innovations in their field”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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