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Soon to be revised….
Post #1
This thread was created in 2011, and much has been removed…because I wanted to revise it…though chose not to…

I have returned & desire to focus on this between June -April 2015-2016

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  When you grow older you remember that were things you might have had an opportunity to learn and maybe.. the one-way methodology didn’t fit your learning style..back then..or maybe a university class where the teacher maybe didn’t share all that well for your satisfaction (:
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POST# 2

• These are some things you’ll find in POST#2 : Learning Threads, critical-thinking,  Mind Habits/Abilities/Usefulness,  Habits of Mind and Abilities,  Ways to Improve Your Confidence,  assertiveness-tufts
  more on assertiveness, Motivational Mentors coming soon ( Brian Tracy *Anthony Robbins, Napoleon Hill, Wayne Dyer and more…………)
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Learning Threads
 critical-thinking

 Mind Habits/Abilities/Usefulness

 Habits of Mind and Abilities

 Ways to Improve Your Confidence

 assertiveness-tufts

more on assertiveness

Motivational Mentors
coming soon….

Brian Tracy
*Anthony Robbins&
Napoleon Hill
Wayne Dyer

and more…………

POST #3

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POST#5

Sites For Me To Review Again
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 Women’s Clothing Sizes
Opinions
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im learning 2 things

the glycemic load way of eating by Patrick Holford He has written lots of books .

and

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay .

Im working on both at the moment ,i have asked the universe for guideance and help in moving forwards in my life and can see now these are the ladders that are leading me in the right direction .

just need to put into practice what im learning ,
love flowergirl

http://www.patrickholford.com/index.php/about/aboutpatrick/

heres a page which i hope you can get on to .He is the man whose company are running zest4life and he is amazing ,love flowergirl

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  Top Documentary films on philosophy a guide to happiness
  This six part series on philosophy is presented by popular British philosopher Alain de Botton, featuring six thinkers who have influenced history, and their ideas about the pursuit of the happy life.
  Socrates on Self-Confidence (Part 1) – Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they truly believe? Partly because they are too easily swayed by other people’s opinions and partly because they don’t know when to have confidence in their own.
  Epicurus on Happiness (Part 2) – British philosopher Alain De Botton discusses the personal implications of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270BCE) who was no epicurean glutton or wanton consumerist, but an advocate of “friends, freedom and thought” as the path to happiness.
  Seneca on Anger (Part 3) – Roman philosopher Lucious Annaeus Seneca (4BCE-65CE), the most famous and popular philosopher of his day, took the subject of anger seriously enough to dedicate a whole book to the subject. Seneca refused to see anger as an irrational outburst over which we have no control. Instead he saw it as a philosophical problem and amenable to treatment by philosophical argument.
  Montaigne on Self-Esteem (Part 4) – Looks at the problem of self-esteem from the perspective of Michel de Montaigne (16th Century), the French philosopher who singled out three main reasons for feeling bad about oneself – sexual inadequecy, failure to live up to social norms, and intellectual inferiority – and then offered practical solutions for overcoming them.
  Schopenhauer on Love (Part 5) – Alain De Botton surveys the 19th Century German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) who believed that love was the most important thing in life because of its powerful impulse towards ‘the will-to-life’.
  Nietzsche on Hardship (Part 6) – British philosopher Alain De Botton explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) dictum that any worthwhile achievements in life come from the experience of overcoming hardship. For him, any existence that is too comfortable is worthless, as are the twin refugees of drink or religion
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Utility Rights and Virtues
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/fallacies.html
http://www.csun.edu/~dgw61315/fallacies.html
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Click link to watch ->Discovery Top Documentary Films Psychology
Watch the full documentary now (26 parts, each 25 minutes long)

• Highlighting major new developments in the field, this updated edition of Discovering Psychology offers high school and college students, and teachers of psychology at all levels, an overview of historic and current theories of human behavior. Stanford University professor and author Philip Zimbardo narrates as leading researchers, practitioners, and theorists probe the mysteries of the mind and body.
  Based on extensive investigation and authoritative scholarship, this introductory course in psychology features demonstrations, classic experiments and simulations, current research, documentary footage, and computer animation. This series is also valuable for teachers seeking to review the subject matter. Produced by WGBH Boston with the American Psychological Association. 1990, 2001.

Click link to watch & see all of the ->Discovery Top Documentary Films Psychology
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• TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR 25 minute films
• 1. Past, Present, and Promise – This introduction presents psychology as a science at the crossroads of many fields of knowledge, from philosophy and anthropology to biochemistry and artificial intelligence.
• 2. Understanding Research This program examines the scientific method and the ways in which data are collected and analyzed — in the lab and in the field — with an emphasis on sharpening critical thinking in the interpretation of research findings.
• 3. The Behaving Brain – This program discusses the structure and composition of the brain: how neurons function, how information is collected and transmitted, and how chemical reactions determine every thought, feeling, and action.
• 4. The Responsive Brain – How the brain controls behavior and, conversely, how behavior and environment influence the brain’s structure and functioning are the focus of this program.
• 5. The Developing Child – This program traces the nature vs. nurture debate, revealing how developmental psychologists study the contributions of both heredity and environment to child development.
• 6. Language Development – The development of language has many facets to explore. This program looks at how developmental psychologists investigate the human mind, society, and culture by studying children’s use of language in social communication.
• 7. Sensation and Perception – This program demonstrates how visual information is gathered and processed, and how our culture, previous experiences, and interests influence our perceptions.
• 8. Learning – Prominent researchers — Pavlov, Thorndike, Watson, and Skinner — have greatly influenced today’s thinking about how learning takes place. This program examines the basic principles of classical and operant conditioning elaborated by these renowned figures.
• 9. Remembering and Forgetting – This program looks at the complex process called memory: how images, ideas, language, and even physical actions, sounds, and smells are translated into codes, represented in the memory and retrieved when needed.
• 10. Cognitive Processes – This program is an exploration into the higher mental processes – reasoning, planning, and problem solving – and why the “cognitive revolution” is attracting such diverse investigators from philosophers to computer scientists.
• 11. Judgment and Decision Making – Exceedingly complex processes are involved in the making of judgments and decisions. This program examines how and why people make good and bad judgments, and the psychology of taking risks. f Yale University.
• 12. Motivation and Emotion – This program reviews what researchers are discovering about why we act and feel as we do, from the exhilaration of love to the agony of failure.
• 13. The Mind Awake and Asleep – Our varying levels of consciousness empower us to interpret, analyze, and direct our behavior in flexible ways. The nature of sleeping, dreaming, and altered states of consciousness are explored in this program.
• 14. The Mind Hidden and Divided – This program shows how experiences that take place below the level of consciousness alter our moods, bias our actions, and affect our health — as demonstrated in repression, discovered and false memory syndromes, hypnosis, and split-brain cases.el Gazzaniga of Dartmouth College. -
• 15. The Self – Psychologists systematically study the origins of self-identity and self-esteem, the social determinants of self-conceptions, and the emotional and motivational consequences of beliefs about oneself. This program explores their methods of discovery.
• 16. Testing and Intelligence – This program peers into the field of psychological assessment — the efforts of psychologists and other professionals to assign values to different abilities, behaviors, and personalities.
• 17. Sex and Gender – This program explores the ways in which males and females are similar and different, and how gender roles reflect social values and psychological knowledge.
• 18. Maturing and Aging – What really happens, physically and psychologically, as we age? This program looks at how society reacts to the last stages of life.
• 19. The Power of the Situation – This program examines how our beliefs and behavior can be influenced and manipulated by other people and subtle situational forces, and how social psychologists study human behavior within its broader social context.
• 20. Constructing Social Reality – Many factors contribute to our interpretation of reality. This program demonstrates how understanding the psychological processes that govern our behavior may help us to become more empathetic and independent members of society.
• 21. Psychopathology – The major types of mental illness are presented. Schizophrenia, phobias, and affective disorders are described, along with the major factors that affect them — both biological and psychological.
• 22. Psychotherapy – This program surveys the relationships among theory, research, and practice, and how treatment of psychological disorders has been influenced by historical, cultural, and social forces.
• 23. Health, Mind, and Behavior – This program presents a rethinking of the relationship between mind and body. A new bio-psychosocial model is replacing the traditional biomedical model.
• 24. Applying Psychology in Life – Psychology is currently being applied in innovative ways to practical situations in the areas of human factors, law, and conflict negotiation.
• 25. Cognitive Neuroscience – Cognitive neuroscience represents the attempt to understand mental processes at the level of the brain’s functioning and not merely from information-processing models and theories. It relies heavily on an empirical analysis of what is happening in the brain, and where, when a person thinks, reasons, decides, judges, encodes information, recalls information, learns, and solves problems. Cognitive neuroscience allies psychologists, biologists, brain researchers, and others in what is perhaps the most dramatic advance in the last decade of psychological research.
• 26. Cultural Psychology – This newly emerging field is integrating cross-cultural research with social and personality psychology, anthropology, and other social sciences. Its main new perspective is centered on how cultures construct selves and other central aspects of individual personality, beliefs, values, and emotions — much of what we are and do. This area has become more important in both psychology and American society with the globalization of our planet, increasing interaction of people from different cultural backgrounds, and emerging issues of diversity.
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Education:

• Leo Buscaglia once said, “We teach children many things but we do not teach them how to live.” Schools do not encourage us to use intuitive, irrational, nonlinear thinking. They do not train us to synthesize the data of our lives or utilize our feelings as a valid source of reality._{Ann Mody LEWIS, M.S.,Ed.S.}
• This may be changing for children today; though this was not the case for most of time. Here is a concise notion from a parent

The parent says from link above:
The primary thing to teach children is how to learn effectively and thoroughly, at will.

Much of modern public [American] education consists of “feeding” information to children under the assumption that, upon completion of their education, they will be equipped with the data necessary to be a productive member of society. This is fine when you are trying to produce an army of drones to perform a set of well-understood tasks, such as when your country is in a relatively static period of development.

However, in rapidly-changing times, a population needs to be adaptable and flexible, and educational priority change to requiring people who can assimilate new information and dynamically synthesize new strategies or belief systems. The transmission of specific data becomes less important.

In particular, children need to be taught that destroying an existing belief system in their mind has nothing to do with destroying their sense of self. The primary source of resistance to effective adaptability is the degree to which the sense of self-identity is not threatened by the changes necessary in the adaptation. If children (people) believe that they remain good and noble and worthwhile despite a change in their beliefs or actions, they will be adaptable. Combined with effective strategies for gathering, evaluating, and assimilating new information, and synthesizing new strategies and belief systems, this produces minds most well-suited to a rapidly-changing environment.

Actionable recommendations for parents/educators:

Teach your children methods of research, critical evaluation, and creation of new ideas. These are often encapsulated within habits like investigation, curiosity, skepticism, etc.
Impress upon them that they are valuable and good but that such qualities are not intrinsically linked to what they believe or do. This does not mean that you don’t teach them right from wrong, but rather that doing something wrong means they made a decision to do a bad thing, not that they are now worth less as a person.