To look rested fix your drooping eyelids.  More than any other facial plastic surgery that change will make you look more rested.  Not for you? Override that perception with a smile. A genuine smile  transforms one’s face.  Per Guillaume Duchenne and Paul Ekman, that is one where the corners of your mouth turn up, your cheeks lift and crows-feet wrinkles appear around the eyes.   Just [...]

A bus driver guides the elderly woman off the bus to an unfamiliar restaurant where  she’s meeting friends, then hears her tell him why that day and his help touched her. A teenager confesses her cutting became addictive and how her love of her mother and best friend helps her get by.  

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… is more important than who grooms you,” observed Stanford biologist, Robert Sapolsky.  He studies baboons, humans, group behavior and stress. “Social support is vital, no matter how healthy you are.”
Suggests psychology professor Dacher Keltner,  “Human beings are wired to

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You may recall your Myers-Briggs type. Now, via Typealyzer, discover your blog’s personality type.  Find out in seconds – complete with a description and diagam of your blog’s type. As an  

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In a bad economy don’t be blind to opportunities. Use your limited resources well.   Savor your work with others. Hackneyed advice? Yes.  Yet you can increase your chances for all three

 by hiring,  partnering or otherwise collaborating with people who, like Leonardo Da Vinci, “cultivate ambidexterity.”  They use their whole mind. They are often outliers.
Such multi-talented people are innately oriented towards 

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Shark and dolphin stories grab students’ interest but attention wanes when it comes to sponges, mollusks, starfish and their kin. A marine biology professor in Maine learned from his son on how to keep his students involved.  A lesson that any teacher  – or trainer, coach or speaker

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Imagine learning a new language or about another culture – and get the full attention of a great teacher you chose?  You could take or teach the one-to-one class online from your home. For the first time would-be students and teachers can find each other for free through Myngle. The online community and support tools to teach or take a class online are free. [...]

Get unstuck. Hear how others have done something remarkable together - something they could not have accomplished on their own. Who knows? Maybe you’ll find a method you can adapt to your situation.

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Eighth grader, Talia Leman recruited other kids to trick-or-treat for coins for Katrina victims.  After appearing on The Today Show she raised $10 million. Next step?  Make it scalable. Like any social entrepreneur, she found a complementary partner to help other students replicate her success.  At her site Random Kid young people can organize their own campaigns for a favorite cause. 

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… on a big screen in a theatre – as part of a short-film before the feature movie.  

For the first time anyone can create an animated cut on their computer with tools provided by Intel, Facebook, Dell and others in this Mass Animation project launched today.  The crowd votes on submissions.  Winners get moments of fame via on-screen credit and $500. 5,586 people have already signed up.

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