7,912 articles on "self_improvement"

Ancient Philosophy on the Internet can Change How We Think

Ancient Philosophy on the Internet can Change How We Think by: Jesse S. Somer Here I am again sitting at my computer, my job is to write about the positive aspects of the Internet. I’d like to think of myself as a bit of a novice philosopher a...

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Making Communication Effective: 4 Language Filters

Making Communication Effective: 4 Language Filters by: Steve Brunkhorst Language is a challenging way to communicate. It allows us to share our thoughts and feelings by describing our personal views of reality. Yet language is not reality. It is...

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The Shattered Identity

The Shattered Identity by: Sam Vaknin I. Exposition In the movie "Shattered" (1991), Dan Merrick survives an accident and develops total amnesia regarding his past. His battered face is reconstructed by plastic surgeons and, with the help of his...

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Adapting for online delivery; selecting the right technology

It goes without saying that whatever technolgies are used, they have to be effective training tools. Previous Updaters have detailed how to determine the profile of the learner and what the training is designed to achieve, you're now in a good p...

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A New Way of Looking At Challenges

When we are born we are all authentic, spontenous and creative.Somewhere along the lines we lose it. We began to solve problems in ways that people before us solved them. Our education tends in this direction. Typically, we think on the basis of simi...

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Remember, Worse Things Can Happen At Sea, So.....Don't Ever Quit!

Throughout the many pages of scores of motivational books, with the Bible being at the forefront, we are encouraged to "not give up." We are told to believe that we can come through any situation and be victorious in life. Ask yourself this question:...

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How to Tell What They Really Meant

Part of Emotional Intelligence is understanding the emotions of others, and one of the most important channels we use to communicate emotions is nonverbal communication. When we’re engaged in communication, we must pay attention to all sorts of thi...

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Sex or Gender - Part II

The Encyclopedia Britannica 2003 edition describes the formation of ovaries and testes thus:"In the young embryo a pair of gonads develop that are indifferent or neutral, showing no indication whether they are destined to develop into testes or ovari...

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The Shattered Identity - Part II

But the unconscious is as much a part of one's self-identity as one's conscious. What if, due to a mishap, the roles were reversed? What if Dan's conscious part were to become his unconscious and his unconscious part - his conscious? W...

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Unemployment Blues Why Me

Perhaps you saw it coming. The fall in company stock prices. The news articles about company troubles. Maybe it was just rumors on the production floor, or a creeping suspicion that orders had slowed down and there was no longer the backlog of work ...

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