So, I’m suddenly twenty eight years old. Also, it’s snowing out and apparently is not going to stop until I’m twenty nine. I should have prefaced that with the fact that I hate snow and it should all be melted and burned and burned again but alas, the moment is gone. So yes, the...
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From the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology comes a study based around the question “Why are narcissists so charming at first sight?”: First, narcissism leads to popularity at first sight. Second, the aspects of narcissism that are most maladaptive in the long run (exploitativeness/entitlement) proved to be most attractive at zero acquaintance. Third, an...
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My friend Rachel Astruc pointed me to a Business Week article on how to spark innovation and creativity that’s worth a read. BPS Research Digest profiles a study about how performing horizontal eye movement exercises may boost your creativity. The journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts has a study (and in typical APA...
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Had an interesting abstract run across my virtual desk today with somewhat of a parallel to my earlier post talking about Warren Ellis’ idea of the importance of letting your brain out to hunt ideas. The journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts had this to say in an article titled “Researching imaginative play...
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Snapshots of my random notetaking for the evening: Buddhadharma The Poet’s Compass Ann Waldman- traveling literally and metaphorically in ten directions at once is an old tantric trick Poetry seems to be my best practice, my skill within these realms Schneier on Security Machiavellian Brain Hypothesis we evolved high intelligence not to make better tools but to use other monkeys better...
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Story idea -what we consciously see is only part of it. We live in two worlds universes simultaneously. our world and shadow world, as in jungian shadow in this second world, those parts of us that we deny and supress most strongly are the ones that dominate our personalities. world of animalistic power structures and little social order,...
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