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Default Mode Network
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. THE DEFAULT MODE NETWORK OF THE BRAIN is a bunch of highways you've built inside your brain, where traffic flows all the time, whether you're daydreaming or focused on a task. It is within thi…
Hind-sight pollution
Diesel Coal Power Station Pollution is pollution caused by a Diesel Coal Power Station. Hind-sight pollution is pollution of reason caused by the presence of hindsight. Betting on a race after the podium presentation is neither a game of skill or chance. - "What they should have …
Hypergraphia
The uncontrollable urge to write excessively. One of the symptoms of Geschwind Syndrome. Graphomania, a related though less specific term. In meetings, where people talk and talk and say nothing, and waste your time and have no consideration for anyone but themselves, I am alw…
Tachysensia - Fast Feeling
When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain, you would not understand — lyrics to “comfortably numb”, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters No Other names - Todd's syndrome - Lilliputian hallucinations - Dy…
Targeted Individuals
{99c0749c-fc92-9cf7-6c4e-ce49d06b5d2e} External references (disregard) - Mind Games: The Tortured Lives of ‘Targeted Individuals’ Thousands of people think that the government is using implanted chips and electronic beams to control their minds. They are desperate to prove they…
Test Yourself
A series of tests, quizzes, or self-assessments you can take. - Anxiety and Depression Checklist - Burns Depression Checklist - ADHD Psychcentral, ADHD: 3 minute test - Totally ADD test - ADHD Self Test for Women and Girls — "This self-test is not intended to diagnose or to repla…
The 32 People You Meet In Heaven, Hell and Everywhere Else
Consider the The Big Five Personality Traits, i.e. - Openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious) - Conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. easy-going/careless) - Extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved) - Agreeableness (friendly/compassion…
Yerkes-Dodson Stress Curve
The "Yerkes-Dodson Law of Arousal" is an extremely useful concept -- provided a few modifications are made to it. - Firstly, it's not a law. It's a theory. - Second, it's not a symmetrical curve. Breakdown happens. - Third, there is no zone which is "optimal." Life is trickier th…