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Category Archives: Stress test
Happiness Secrets and the Study of Natural and Synthetic Happiness
Are you a people watcher? If you’re a writer, you are. I am, and I’ve noticed something disturbing. At least once a week I leave our quiet rural roads where we all smile and wave to one another, even if … Continue reading
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Tagged choices, Dan Gilbert, emotions, happiness quiz, happiness. happy, i09, people watcher, protagonist, psychology of happiness, smile, synthetic happiness, TED, writer
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What I Learned from the Song Bird in a Wooden Cage
The endearing song of some small bird pulled me, I had to see the source. I trotted down a narrow, stone street, these streets were all made for traffic of the two wheeled or two legged kind. I was fortunate … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlene Dietz, culture, education, ideas, imagination, Kotor Montenegro, Medina Morocco, Motril Spain, opinion about U.S.A., people, travel, writing
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Defining Our Differences: Another Test For You
I pulled out my car keys and started out the door. My husband stopped me and smiled. He handed me a map because he knows me well. I usually have a good sense of where I’m going and how to … Continue reading
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Tagged character development, comfort zone, Gregorc, intelligence, intuition, Learning Styles, relationship, writer
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Perception Video Quizes
Dr. Daniel Simons and his assistant Christophe Chabris , in the1990’s, created a sixty-second perception test that required people to watch a video. This little brain-test quiz is now world famous. Even though this video and his subsequent ones are … Continue reading
Frog Leap Test
Second Graders in China have no problem solving this problem. Frog Leap Test The solution isn’t so obvious to those of us with older minds.
