Emotional intelligence, General, Learning
You do remember the Generation Game, don’t you? Started in the early ‘70s… and as kids we loved it, especially the last game where the two families tried to copy an expert in a skill needing the ability to pay close attention and copy accurately. One week there’d be an [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, General, Health
Exercise boosts memory and cognitive performance – so says new research. 10-40 minute bursts of activity immediately boosts concentration and focus – probably because of increased blood flow in the brain. So who could blame us for racing round the block for 20 minutes before an exam? Another bit of research showed that [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence, Health
Does what goes on in your brain change according to your environment? Panos Mavros, Jenny Roe, Peter Aspinall and Richard Coyne think so. They fitted some people in Edinburgh with a new type of EEG recorder, and monitored their brain activity during a 25 minute walk through 3 different areas [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
Have you noticed how some people seem to be physically attached to their mobile ‘phones? I mean – you can’t separate the two! You know who I’m talking about. They’ve even got the damn things out in the restaurant. Without so much as an explanation, let alone apologising for their [...]
Emotional intelligence, General
What’s up with this Rafa Benitez thing? Apparently there is going to be extra security at the Chelsea match against West Brom. They’re expecting trouble. Is this a good example of the tribe questioning the values of their tribal leader? Whether at school, at work, in the family, in popular [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
More news about good brain food… Fault Lines – Fast food, Fat profits: Obesity in America Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050. Why [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
It seems, the more we discover about the function of sleep, the more we realise the benefits of good quality sleep. We know that sleep is important in the memory consolidation proces, but we now know that lack of sleep is a factor in problems with overweight. Not only that, [...]
Brain, Emotional intelligence
The more we think, the less we believe! Well, in God anyway… Apparently, we humans use two separate cognitive systems for processing information. There’s intuitive thinking, which is fast and er… intuitive! (In other words, a spontaneous and innate skill.) And there’s also a slower and more analytical process. Either [...]
Emotional intelligence
You remember the old saying: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but calling names won’t hurt me. While now it seems there is evidence to suggest that words can indeed hurt us. It’s there in our language: my heart broke, heart ache, stabbed in the back, feeling wounded… but [...]
Emotional intelligence, Learning
What would you have done, at the age of 8, if somebody had put a tasty biscuit in front of you and gave you a choice: you could have that biscuit now or if you waited until that person returned from running a quick errand, you could have 2? What [...]
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