This week’s offering is simply a pointer to someone I greatly appreciate and read regularly, Jonah Lehrer.
Getting Good
Be sure to watch NPR’s Ira Glass on the YouTube video. I promise you will be inspired.
Archive for May, 2008
Getting Good
Posted in Expertise, tagged Experts, Ira Glass, Jonah Lehrer, K. Anders Ericcson on May 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Getting My Back Up Over Polyvagal Theory
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I was getting ready to leave work late one evening when a colleague buttonholed me on my way out of the office with a request. It was a small request really – to deliver something to another mutual colleague. But her voice tone and sense of entitlement triggered an outsized emotional reaction in me – [...]
Heeding the Siren Call
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve been hearing and feeling the siren call of epigenetics research recently. It’s a compelling call, one that I’ve been hearing for awhile now. Only after co-creating distance learning curriculum in Science, Spirituality and Healing, which offers students an opportunity to explore the field in depth, have I decided that it might be a good [...]
Transforming an Impaired Ability to Love
Posted in Uncategorized on May 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes people will come up to me and tell me right to my face that they think I’m one of the most generous people they know. I’m always surprised and more than a little uncomfortable with such pronouncements for a number of reasons. One is, I don’t generally feel that generous. In other words I [...]
Edith’s Brain is Different than Archie’s
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
One of the reasons I’m excited and fascinated by research in social neuroscience and interpersonal neurobiology is because findings in these fields help me make sense of my experience – especially the challenging or troubling ones. Like for example, those allostatically loaded times in junior high that I’ve already written about when the teacher called [...]
