Social Anxiety Page Updated

First off, the site was given a new look.  A few of the catergories were amalgomated, but overall I think the format is easier to navigate than the last layout.  If you have any feedback on this let me know. Also, the Social Anxiety page has been updated.  At this time I have added a…

A Fascinating Look at the Human Brain and Delusions

A fascinating video discussing the human brain. The implications of what is discussed can be extrapolated out into a whole host of topics and issues. A very worthwhile 24 minutes.

To Move Unshackled Into Tomorrow – Part 3

Part 2 left us with these these thoughts: For someone with social anxiety to accept their affliction and smile at a stranger is a small victory.  To not look away when someone smiles at them is another small victory and should be embraced.  If a comparison is made in that moment to the “alphas” in…

Loss Aversion and the Relation to Our Lives

Many of you may know that my actual profession is as a trader and financial market analyst.  Philosophy and  psychology are my other prominent interests, and the lines between these two areas of my life definitely intersect… often.  An example is the following article I sent to subscribers within my Vantage Point Trading Newsletter which…

Self-Revelation Through Someone Else’s Experience

This is probably the only thing I will ever say you need to listen to.  It is about an hour long, and in that time you experience the transformation of this one person…who I think we all will  identify with.  You can download the .mp3 here and listen to it at your leisure: http://www.byronkatie.com/2009/12/audio_i_cant_stand_my_best_fri_1.htm I know…

To Move Unshackled into Tomorrow-2

The first part of this series left us with these thoughts: Opt to express, to live. Not in the shadow of language used to disguise fear and motives we are ashamed of, but rather in honest interaction where we express, so that others can also express freely. In this way we create the highest order…

Life = Risk Video

Great little clip on what happens when you push through the discouraging moments.

How the Internet Enables Intimacy

We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent’s research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. Watch the video, it is about 10 minutes, and then below I point out a few of things I find interesting about…

Jill Bolte Taylor-An Amazing Video

This is a fantastic video. It is a presentation by Jill Bolte Taylor.  It is really quite interesting. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist who experienced a severe hemorrhage in the left hemisphere of her brain in 1996. On the afternoon of this rare form of stroke (AVM), she could not…

To Move Unshackled Into Tomorrow-1

Yesterday I posted a video on the improvements that the world has seen through the eyes of statistics. It is true that many great things have been accomplished. The world has evolved and each of us along with it…but there is copious amounts of research that show the path of progress is leading to a…

The World As You Know It…and As It Is

Here is a more refreshing view point than what is often perpetuated these days; one that shows how the world is improving.  This may just be the first time you will have fun watching a show on statistics. Best wishes, Cory Mitchell

The 10 Most Revealing Psych Experiments

I have posted previous articles about tendencies that humans have.  When we read things about what people actually do…and not just what they think they would do, or say they will do, we find a very diverging pattern.  And of course to that most people say “But not me!”  Some very revealing studies are summarized…

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