“We were never designed for the sedentary, indoor, sleep-deprived, socially-isolated, fast-food-laden, frenetic pace of modern life.” – Stephen Ilardi. More details about the Therapeutic Lifestyle Change here: http://psych.ku.edu/tlc/
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"If you’re curious and hopeful enough, great books tend to find you."Lev Grossman
Kevin Breel: on Depression and Mental Health
“Depression is okay. We’re people. We’re people and we struggle, and we suffer and we bleed and we cry. And if you think that true strength means never showing any weakness, then I am here […]
Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
Every now and then, I come back to this TEDTalk by Chimamanda Adichie. “The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They […]
Bobby McFerrin: Ave Maria
Ave Maria by Bobby McFerrin and his audience, at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale
In this 3-min performance from the World Science Festival, musician Bobby McFerrin plays the audience and uses the pentatonic scale to reveal one surprising result of the way our brains are wired.
“I have come to believe that coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from."Lisa Bu Learn more from her TEDTalks video: http://on.ted.com/Bu
Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind
What happens when a dream you’ve held since childhood … doesn’t come true? As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to expand her mind and create […]
Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success. Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure – and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He […]