Choice or Chance

you can either stop trying or you can pick yourself up and keep going.”

a lack of strong relationships increased the risk of premature death by 50 percent. That's equivalent to smoking fifteen cigarettes a day.7 It appears one of the best ways to be physically healthy is to have plenty of good relationships.

Mental health professionals have used three different perspectives in their search for the cause, explanation, and definition of abnormality: the biological, the psychological, and the systemic.

“It's not easy to lose things that you love to do, like I loved sports. But I have found a love for new things that are within my capabilities. Although I can't do as much as I used to, I have found other important things in my life.”

scores. Two, and perhaps relevant to our conversation about gender: Internality in boys is a predictor of their academic achievement from third grade through high school and into college,

being External before you are married, especially if you are a woman, increases the chances of the marriage starting off on the wrong foot.

Internality was related to better job satisfaction and higher feelings of well-being across all countries.

Externals will be more comfortable knowing this information. “Free play” sounds good to many of us, but not to Externals. Teachers should even structure and guide “free play” by providing a limited number of choices. The day should begin with a meeting in which the day's activities are presented, posted, and referred to often. The end of the day sh

Internals showed they were willing to invest more in their fitness behaviors than Externals by being healthier eaters and more enthusiastic exercisers.

they are responding to social cues. In the study, the cooperative instructions emphasized that each child's score was important to the final outcome, that the other person was depending on what the child did. Perhaps that was enough to motivate the Externals to improve their performance.