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“Genes are like keys on a piano.” When we get caught in ruminative chatter, we hit discordant notes.
Leigh Marz • Golden
J. Gary Bernhard, Ed.D. • Is There a Natural Pace of Living for Human Beings?
Charles Segal, a recently retired Harvard professor of classics who taught my Greek Tragedy course, spoke about how the Oedipus trilogy reminded him of Erik Erikson’s three stages of development. In youth, Professor Segal said, a person struggles to figure out who they are in relation to their parents (a real head scratcher in Oedipus’s case). In m
... See moreSuzanne Koven • Letter to a Young Female Physician: Notes from a Medical Life
Individuals with hearing loss have a reduced ability to adapt to background noise. Studies show that this impaired adaptation accounts for a significant portion of their difficulty with speech recognition in noisy settings—up to 10% of the total speech recognition threshold loss
We are not, one of Adam’s papers proves, wired to see slow, background change, when something bright and colorful is waving in our faces.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
THE PATHWAY TO GENIUS
Kevin L. Michel • Moving Through Parallel Worlds to Achieve Your Dreams
The theory of compensation that these figures supposedly exemplify begins with Alfred Adler, the third, least-known, and shortest-lived member of the great therapeutic triumvirate of Freud, Jung, Adler. His studies of gifted personalities universalized the idea of compensation into a basic law of human nature. His evidence, gathered in art schools
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