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Positive Feedback
About a year and a half ago, I had the opportunity to see something from a different perspective. Having done several degrees in Psychology, I understood the concept of positive reinforcement and all of B.F. Skinner’s work. In a very simple way I understood it as such (feel free to skip to the next paragraph if you don’t want to relive intro psych): Positive reinforcement is about increasing the likelihood of a behaviour by providing a rewarding stimulus. So for example, if I want my dog Jett to sit in the future, I will reward her sitting now with a treat. That should reinforce sitting and increase the likelihood that she will sit in the future. Comparatively, negative reinforcement is

Exercise, the Brain, and Emotional Wellness
Exercise, the Brain, and Emotional WellnessBy Dr. Amanda Wintink, PhD (Neuroscience & Psychology)Originally Printed in Optimyz Magazine, October/November 2009 issuehttp://www.optimyz.ca/index.phpWhy do we feel so good after exercising? You’ve probably heard of, or maybe experienced, a runner’s high, which happens when the brain’s natural “feel good” chemicals (endorphins) are active. In fact, exercising has many benefits like enhanced learning, memory, and anti-depressant effects. These cognitive and emotional benefits of exercise seem to be a result of an increase in cell growth in the brain.

Brain Gains | Special Feature: Brain Gains | CBC News: The National
Brain Gains | Special Feature: Brain Gains | CBC News: The National

Rules for Success
I receive regular emails from the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning, which mostly apply to teaching in the academic setting. The one that came today was entitled “Rules for Success”. I stole the titles, slightly re-worded them to be more general, and wrote my own description of them. They are as follows: Rule 1: Know YourselfToo often we look at the situation, job, relationship, whatever it is that we are trying to succeed at and expect it to change so that we can succeed or be happy when in fact, if we know ourselves well enough we can place ourselves in the right environment, job, relationship, etc. in which we will surely to succeed. Our situa

FUCK!
was the subject line in an email I received today from a friend who was feeling dragged down by the energy of those around her. My response was this: Fuck them anyway! You are an amazing person with so much love and compassion to give. Don’t waste your beautiful energy on getting caught up in it. Honor them and their journey but believe in your own beauty and worth. They steal your energy like people steal the beauty of a picked flower instead of leaving it to bloom for the next one who passes by. They don’t know how to let your beauty be there for the whole world to experience. They want it for themselves. They don’t know better. There are people around us who are jealous