(Tim Makay) Firearms are the premier defensive weapon of our time, whether you are trying to protect yourself against hostile humans or aggressive, dangerous animals.
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How You Eat Defines Your Personality
(Exploring You Mind) It seems that how you eat is linked to your personality. At least, that’s what a rather curious experiment suggests. It identified up to ten types of personality according to the way you eat. Which one do you identify with?
Curiosity and Hunger Share Brain Regions
(Exploring Your Mind) Curiosity, the desire for knowledge, learning, and discovery, is very similar to the hunger for food. So much so that they share the same brain regions and processes.
Brain Plasticity: How to Achieve an Elastic Mind
(Exploring Your Mind) Adopting a more flexible mindset would certainly help you respond to everyday difficulties in a more effective way. After all, change is inevitable, and in the face of each of these challenges, a more open, dynamic and creative approach will always be of great help.
Curious People Are Powerful People — Tap into Joy by Feeding Your Curiosities
(Justin Deschamps) Pleasure and joy, even bliss, is a whole-brain activity. Stimulation is the gateway to fulfillment, meaning, adventure, and positive emotion. In the modern world, stress limits joy because it causes hyper-focus. When you’re focused on a task for work, school, home, or life in general, unless you feel joy, inspiration, and playfulness during the process, you’ll lose sensitivity. Why? Because if we contextualize a goal as stressful, then our brain naturally withdraws from everything else. If you move from one state of focused-work to another, never taking a mindfulness break, the brain doesn’t have a chance to open up again, which you need to do or you’ll feel numb, bored, and unsettled.