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Top Spelling Blunders Part IV - 0 views

  • Top Spelling Blunders Part IV
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      Here's part IV of a helpful set of articles on the top spelling blunders in article and blog writing. clicking the link at the end of this article. gfp (2012-02-10)
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    Here's part IV of a helpful set of articles on the top spelling blunders in article and blog writing. clicking the link at the end of this article. gfp (2012-02-10) Yo can work your way backwards through the series by
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10 Myths About Introverts - 0 views

  • A section of Laney’s book maps out the human brain and explains how neuro-transmitters follow different dominant paths in the nervous systems of Introverts and Extroverts.
  • Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk.
  • Myth #2 – Introverts are shy.
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  • Myth #3 – Introverts are rude.
  • Myth #4 – Introverts don’t like people.
  • Myth #5 – Introverts don’t like to go out in public.
  • Myth #6 – Introverts always want to be alone.
  • Myth #7 – Introverts are weird.
  • Myth #8 – Introverts are aloof nerds.
  • Myth #9 – Introverts don’t know how to relax and have fun.
  • Myth #10 – Introverts can fix themselves and become Extroverts.
  • It can be terribly destructive for an Introvert to deny themselves in order to get along in an Extrovert-Dominant World.
  • labeling someone as an Introvert is a very shallow assessment, full of common misconceptions. It’s more complex than that.
  • Laney’s book maps out the human brain and explains how neuro-transmitters follow different dominant paths in the nervous systems of Introverts and Extroverts. If the science behind the book is correct, it turns out that Introverts are people who are over-sensitive to Dopamine,
  • Conversely, Extroverts can’t get enough Dopamine, and they require Adrenaline for their brains to create it.
  • Unfortunately, according to the book, only about 25% of people are Introverts.
  • here are a few common misconceptions about Introverts (not taken directly from the book, but based on my own life experience):
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    This short article nicely and scientifically debunks the myths about 'introversion'. Next time your boss, professor or colleague suggests you're shy, slip this article at her or him! gfp (2011-12-01)
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    So they think you're shy, eh? gfp
Gary Patton

Dealing with a stress-inducing co-worker - Stress Management - Article - More Than Medi... - 0 views

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    Helpful bulleted article.
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Wind Turbine Syndrome | "The Science of Wind Turbine Syndrome" - 0 views

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    An excellent article on the ludicry of "peer review" replacing "replicatability" in some modern science debates. The article features the topic of Industrial Wind Turbines. gfp (2013-07-26)
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Why you should probably stop eating wheat - 0 views

  • Why you should probably stop eating wheat
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      A brief article summarizing what modern research is discovering about the dangers of modern, hybrized grains ...particularly whole wheat... and why we might be wise to not eat it. GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2012-12-16)
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    A brief article summarizing what modern research is discovering about the dangers of modern, hybrized grains ...particularly whole wheat... and why you might be wise to not eat it. Karen and I don't! GaryFPatton (gfp '42™ 2012-12-16)
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What They Don't Tell You at Graduation - WSJ.com - 0 views

  • 10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You
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    Mr. Wheelan, a prior commencement speech writer, shares the ten things your commencement speaker won't tell you. His advice offers relevant tidbits to both recent grads and those that tossed their graduation hat years ago. It's a bookmark-worthy article in the Wall Street Journal. gfp (2012-05-01)
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Honoring Men: A Manifesto for Conscious Women - 0 views

  • Honoring Men: A Manifesto for Conscious Women
    • Gary Patton
       
      An interesting article on male/female relationship issues. 2011-06-28
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    An interesting article on male/female relationship issues by Mary Allen & John Cole.
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The Magic of Chia Seed - an excellent source  of EFAs and other nutrients - 0 views

  • buy substituting the oil in your breads with Chia gel. Top your favorite bread dough before baking with Chia gel (for toping on baked goods, breads, cookies, piecrust, etc., reduce the water ration to 8 parts water to 1 part Chia seed) for added shelf life.
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      The author missed a typo. "Buy" should be "try".
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    This article succinctly outlines the power of the "ancient Grain", as Chia is called, which is really a seed. It's a strong source of EFA's plus a modulator of carbohydrate-caused "sugar spikes" that can cause Insulin Resistance, a precursor to Type II Diabetes. gfp (2012-03-18)
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Paper-li Wordmarrk | Rott-I-Tude - 0 views

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    It includes articles, pics and videos selected by Paper.li from those posted by the Editor's Twitter Followers plus items the Editor publishes. gfp (2012-03-28)
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    Paper.li is a personalized and curateable online newspaper published by individuals using the Paper.li format and tool. It includes articles, pics and videos selected by Paper.li from those posted by the Editor's Twitter Followers plus items the Editor publishes. gfp (2012-03-28)
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How To Solve Difficult Problems - 0 views

  • Remember when you were staring at the ceiling in elementary school, and the teacher asked you whether the answer was on the ceiling? Maybe it was.
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      You guys NEVER ever did that ...right? gfp (2011-10-04)
  • One potentially appropriate therapy for procrastination lies in teaching something akin to time management
  • it is desirable that not only that there should be an interval free from conscious thought on the particular problem concerned, but also that that interval should be so spent that nothing should interfere with the free working of the unconscious or partially unconscious processes of the mind. In those cases, the stage of incubation should include a large amount of actual mental relaxation"
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      Might it not have been more understandable for his readers for this academic to have simply said: "When you have a really difficult problem ...go to sleep!" Or: "Take a shower!" The latter usually works best for me. And to enhance the former, I keep a pad & pen on my bed-side table so I can jot down a quickie reminder, without really waking up, because I seldom can rember my brialliant idea in the morning? What do you do? gfp (2011-10-04)
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  • Helmholz described how new thoughts came to him: After previous investigation, "in all directions," .. " happy ideas come unexpectedly without effort, like an inspiration ... they have never come to me when my mind was fatigued, or when I was at my working table ... They came particularly readily during the slow ascent of wooded hills on a sunny day" (p. 91).
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      Athiestic scientists describe the event this way! Some call it 'serindipity' to similarily disguise the real source! I more accurately and unasamably call it what it is: GOD! gfp (2011-10-04)
  • Einstein would "allow the subconscious to solve particularly tricky problems
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      Apropos my note above re 'serendipity', and contrary to common myth, Einstein was at best a diest late in life but not a Christian, according to those who knew him well. gfp (2011-10-04)
  • They engage in the "preliminary period of conscious work which also precedes all fruitful unconscious labor" (Poincare, 1924).
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      Don't you just love academic writing? gfp (2011-10-04)
  • Of course, the "illumination" that is the result of incubation needs to be followed by more conscious work. Ideas that arise as a result of incubation need to be evaluated (Smith, 1994);
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      Really? Duh!! gfp
  • Incubation sometimes requires a very long break:
  • can also occur with breaks of shorter duration.
  • it can also happen in very short breaks, a few minutes or even moments.
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      God seldom works the same way ...every time! gfp
  • I have found that these breaks work best when they are devoted to something fairly mindless: washing just a few dishes, filing just a few papers, or doing some light exercise.
  • In fact, high achievers may actually take more time.
  • perhaps some of the "non-stop" working was staring at the ceiling. If high achievers appear to accomplish tasks more quickly than others, I suspect it is only because they put in so much more time.1
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      "Type "A' Personalities", please take note! (This is a note to myself!! :-) ) gfp
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    In this helpful, short article the author outlines, simply, how to unleash your creativity best by using the simple process of incubation. gfp (2011-10-04)
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Embrace Your Irrational Colleagues - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • There is just something going on that we don't realize.
  • But the reality is that the nurse was doing what she thought best, which made her appear irrational to others. Once the underlying history and motivation was revealed, her behavior made sense.
  • Irrational behavior is part of the human condition.
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  • At some level, conscious or unconscious, each of us has a compelling reason — such as short-term gratification, peer acceptance, convenience, lifestyle, and many more — for doing the "wrong" thing.
  • "There is NO SUCH THING as irrational behaviour".
  • Everyone is strangeSave me and youAnd sometimes I thinkYou strange too
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    Do you argue with your colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially partners and other relatives... when they behave irrationally? If you're like me you do because I'm a "Recovering Type 'A' Controlling Personality"! :-) However regardless of your personality type, you are wise not to argue with seemingly irrational people because "Irrationality Isn't Always Stupidity"! gfp (2011-11-23)
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    Discover in this short article why arguing with an irrational is really dumb as well as a better way to relate to them! GaryFPatton
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The Art of Asking Questions - Ron Ashkenas - Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • But asking questions effectively is a major underlying part of a manager's job
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      I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! It "blows my mind" that theis powerful relationship communication skill is not taught at school. But then, some argue, that John Dewey, one of the Founders of the Humanist Society and principal author of the "Humanist Manifesto"
  • three areas where improved "questioning" can strengthen managerial effectiveness
  • Good managers therefore are always asking themselves and others about what they could do better or differently.
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      Both getting and giving good feedback is another major life-skill challenge for many of us. Ask me for my S-M-A-R-TBriefing™ on each of these life-skills because ... "All feedback you get or, better, can encourage, is helpful and able to assist you irrespective of it being complimentary, contrarian or contentious!"~ gfp '42™
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  • Many managers don't know how to probe the thought process of their subordinates, colleagues, and bosses — and instead make assumptions about the basis of their actions. And when those assumptions are wrong, all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can be created.
  • probing needs to be in the spirit of accelerating progress, illuminating unconscious assumptions and solving problems
  • many of the best managers I've seen have an uncanny ability to engage in Socratic dialogue that helps people reach their own conclusions about what can be done to improve a plan or project, which of course leads to much more ownership and learning.
  • Asking these questions in a way that does not trigger defensiveness and that is seen as constructive is an important skill for managers.
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    Few of us are effective questioners. And being good at the skill of asking questions effectively is not just a major underlying part of a manager's job as is the focus in this excellent article. I'd argue effective questioning is everyone's job and a major life ...not just business... skill! A major life challenge of many of us is that we don't know how to probe the thought process of our bosses, colleagues, friends, neighbours ...and especially our partners and other relatives. Instead we make ill-informed and unwise assumptions about the basis of their actions and behaviours. And when those assumptions are wrong ...as they usually are..., all sorts of dysfunctional patterns can result. gfp (2011-11-23)
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    Discover in this article why what you weren't taught in school can be a major draw-back in your career and life!
Gary Patton

Bullying: The New Way to do Business on the Web - 0 views

  • Bullying: The New Way to do Business on the Web
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      Only one of Amazon's "bullying tactics" is outlined in this article. You can discover others on an updated basis at http://www.growmap.com/amazon-walmart/ gfp (2012-02-07)
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    Only one of Amazon's "bullying tactics" is outlined in the article. You can discover more at
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To-Do Lists Don't Work : Harvard Business Review - 0 views

  • To-Do Lists Don't Work
    • Gary Patton
       
      In this article, Daniel Markovitz warns everyone that the typically-recommended "To-Do Lists" not only "don't work" but are dangerous. Twenty years ago, I was warning people about this in my time and stress management programs. But, the author makes some excellent points around the subject. If you''d like to know more, please contact me. gfp (2012-02-28)
  • Stop making to-do lists. They're simply setting you up for failure and frustration. Consider the to-do lists you're currently managing: how many items have been languishing
  • ive fundamental problems with to-do lists
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  • The paradox of choice
  • Heterogeneous complexity
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    In this article, Daniel Markovitz warns everyone that To-Do Lists not only "don't work" but are dangerous. Twenty years ago, I was warning people about this in my time and stress management programs. But, the author makes some excellent points around the subject. If you''d like to know more, please contact me. gfp (2012-02-28)
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"Why Zombies Should Matter" - 0 views

  • Why Zombies Should Matter to Christians
  • Zombies now are featured in top-rated cable TV shows, and in apocalyptic novels and survival guides.
  • The zombie myth is rooted in something quite real, and quite terrifying. The zombie stories emerged in a Caribbean context of brutal slavery. The zombie’s horror is that he is, she writes, a slave forever. After all, if even death cannot free you, you can never be free.
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  • That’s exactly the point, and here’s why it should matter to Christians.
  • They are horrifying because they represent what ought to repulse us: the rotting decay of death. But they still walk. And, beyond that, they still crave. In their search for human brains, they are driven along by their appetites, though always under the sway of a slavemaster’s will.
  • That’s our story
  • The biblical story of the Fall of humanity is one of a humanity that comes under the sway of death by obeying the appetite.
  • He sentences us to the curse of death so that, ultimately, we can be redeemed.
  • The Gospel tells us that, apart from Christ, we were walking in the flesh, that is slavishly obeying our biological impulses and appetites without the direction of the Spirit. As such, we were “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1).
  • This walking death, the Apostle Paul writes, was driven along as we “carried out the desires of the body and the mind” (Ephesians 2:3).
  • Caribbean people could resonate with the horror of zombies because they knew what it was like to be enslaved by evil people, with no hope of escape.
  • The Gospel doesn’t just extend our lives forever into eternity. That’s what we, left to ourselves, think we want.
  • Jesus points out that he wants to eternalize his present state rather than to be hidden in the life of Jesus Himself. That’s a zombie walk, and Jesus loves us too much for that.
  • Jesus offers instead life, and that abundantly, as we eat of His flesh, drink of His blood, share in His triumph over the accusing slavemaster.
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    "Why Zombies Should Matter" This article would better be titled: "Why Zombies Should Matter to All Those Who Don't Now Follow Jesus!" Read on to discover why this is true and what one can do to avoid a horrible coming reality!
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"Headlines, Why writing great, is like creating a soap opera. - 0 views

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    A helpful article by a talented Copy-Writer!
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Why You're Wise to Walk barefoot | Ahcuah - 1 views

  • Discovering the Difference
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    If you'll please substitute walking for running, I agree with the benefits of barefootism in this article. Walking is so much healthier than running in so many ways besides not destroying your feet, ankles and knees. I walk in the woods and on the shore of Lake Ontario whenever the weathers permits. I do so to gain the benefits of being in touch with the earth's magnetism that the human body needs desperately.
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Senior Adult Health | Health News Magazine - 0 views

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    50% of the North American population dying with some form of cardiovascular disease that both cuts their lives short and often impairs their quality of life for many years prior to death. And the other biggies, cancer and diabetes are not far behind in terms of the percentage of people who are also being ravaged by these killers. This short article includes a number of Biblically based wellness truths that will
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"Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week" and making staff do it! : Lessons from Sheryl ... - 0 views

  • Stop Working More Than 40 Hours a Week
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      Much research clearly seems to proves the advice in this article and Sheryl Sandberg's family-oriented practise is wise. I suggest you stop if you also are requiring your staff to do it too! As a "recovering Type 'A' workaholic", I speak from experience because I couldn't work, at all, for over 5 years after the dis-stress on my body, mind, emotions, will, and spirit caused a life-threatening event in my life in 1995. gfp (2012-05-03)
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    "There's a century of research establishing the undeniable fact that working more than 40 hours per week actually decreases productivity." gfp (2012-04-26)
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Why Write It Down | - 0 views

  • The Power of Intention IncreasesWhen You Write It
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    Why write it down something you intend to do? What's the power that flows from doing so? This article succinctly and powerfully outlines the benefits of scripting your intentions.
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