http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/10/31/the-bad-thing-your-brain-might-do-when-you-meet-someone-new/ Succeed and Savor Life With Others...by Kare Anderson. What can we do better together? For greater accomplishment, adventure and friendship let’s harness the power of us. Share ways to thrive in this next chapter of your life with others. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:47:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/10/31/the-bad-thing-your-brain-might-do-when-you-meet-someone-new/comment-page-1/#comment-3245 JennaM Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:32:46 +0000 http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/10/31/the-bad-thing-your-brain-might-do-when-you-meet-someone-new/#comment-3245 Very interesting. Simply by anecdotal observations this is very true in my case. I can have 10 successes in a row and 1 defeat. That defeat will drown out all of the euphoria of my when really it should be a simple speed bump in my progression. Very interesting. Simply by anecdotal observations this is very true in my case. I can have 10 successes in a row and 1 defeat. That defeat will drown out all of the euphoria of my when really it should be a simple speed bump in my progression.

]]> http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/10/31/the-bad-thing-your-brain-might-do-when-you-meet-someone-new/comment-page-1/#comment-2957 Michael Yanakiev Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:53:47 +0000 http://www.movingfrommetowe.com/2009/10/31/the-bad-thing-your-brain-might-do-when-you-meet-someone-new/#comment-2957 When we consider these traits and a host of others we haven’t discussed, acting in combination, is it any wonder that we humans, as Alexander Pope observed over two centuries ago, are prone to err? We view the world through a dense veil of burdensome, though – warping emotions, biases, and mind – sets. Through this veil we sometimes perceive cause –and –effect and other “patterns” where there are none. We are prone to grace these nonexistent patterns with self – satisfying explanations into rock hard beliefs that we defend in the face of incontrovertible contradictory evidence. Ladies and gentlemen, sharing the pleasure of your company…….Homo sapiens ! When we consider these traits and a host of others we haven’t discussed, acting in combination, is it any wonder that we humans, as Alexander Pope observed over two centuries ago, are prone to err? We view the world through a dense veil of burdensome, though – warping emotions, biases, and mind – sets. Through this veil we sometimes perceive cause –and –effect and other “patterns” where there are none. We are prone to grace
these nonexistent patterns with self – satisfying explanations into rock hard beliefs that we defend in the face of incontrovertible contradictory evidence.
Ladies and gentlemen, sharing the pleasure of your company…….Homo sapiens !

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