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We Feel Fine
As we try to understand motivations from affection to fury, from calculation to manipulation, from fear to adoration, it is difficult to reduce our thinking to an equation. What exactly are “feelings”? How can we use critical thinking skills apart from or in concert with these built-in responses?
Malcolm Gladwell: spaghetti sauce and choice
the clip below has a 17 min. lecture given by Malcolm Gladwell. Gladwell is one of several highly influential popularizers of entry-level neuroscience and pop psychology. His books read like summer fiction, only they leave much more provocative information left to consider after speeding through them.
Open Minded
Open-mindedness is this peculiar turn of phrase that once implies willing to listen to others, and at the same time is a challenge for others to listen to you. When someone will not hear your perspective is common to think that they are not open-minded. On the other hand when someone is offering you advice that you feel is ludicrous, it is not that you are closed minded, but rather that you possess clarity of thought. The video below does a nice job touching on several points in the understanding of open-mindedness.
Decisions, Decisions
The clip below explores the mind/brain relationship and what it can tell us about decision-making. A well done and interesting presentation.
Interactive Patterns 