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Reading Literature Makes you Smarter and Nicer!
The Effects of Information Overload
Find ideas, news, things --- far beyond your own well-shaped nose!
Nose around the links above. Try the "reading eyes" quiz below.
Reading People's Eyes - New York Times
Children HAVING FUN
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No matter your age, learning is fun, sometimes difficult, and will augment your *schema. Fostering the development of your critical reading skills allows altering, pivoting and the filtering of your many existing perspectives.
Take deep reflection in understanding inner world, what is embedded -- and why. Respect individual processes of learning in order to attain deeper understanding of many different environments. This means neighbors, co-workers, families, friends, other countries: one's world. Having the capacity to completely understand one's self involves your commitment to the intricacies of truth while striving for a life filled with learning.
***schema:
*a mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli
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BEING HONEST WITH YOUR VIEWS AND UNDERSTANDING YOUR FEELINGS
Obstacles are monsters when you focus too much on them. Fancy little monsters. Any negative behavior, though, needs to be acknowledged whether it is in oneself or in people in your circles. Before laying blame, become knowledgable of the behavior.
Becoming knowledgable is known as adding to other parts of your entire *schema! What is schema???
Start to heal any problem by truthfully acknowledging the special way you see something. Realize your window is your perception. Your perception is packed full of your own history of experiences. Lots of life bumps, aren't there?
Google scholar the behavior, let's say "Bullying" is one major negative behavior. Find the many scholars of your particular life bump.
Scientists who have been studying bullying behavior for more than a century categorize different types of bullying. According to religious author, Frank Peretti, there are two basic reasons why anyone bullies, and most often they have a long-term, deep troubling need that has not been met. The other is that they think it is acceptable behavior, or “cool” to pick on someone.
Common bullying methods are physical, verbal, indirect, social alienating, and cyber. “Physical bullying” includes any physical contact that would hurt or injure a person.
Taking something that belongs to someone else and destroying it is physical bullying. The second is “verbal bullying,” for instance name-calling, making offensive remarks, or joking about a person's religion, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, or the way they look.
Very prevalent is the type labeled “indirect bullying” which includes spreading rumors or stories about someone, telling others about something that was told to you in private, and excluding others from groups. “Social alienation” is when a bully excludes someone from a group on purpose. Cyber-bullying is done by sending messages, pictures, or information using electronic media.
Hey, I say, teach your kids that the reason weapons exists is because people create reasons for wars. So ill. So ridiculous. So sad. Yes, pathetic. In the GOOGLE field, type "Google scholar." You will see another GOOGLE field, this time for a deeper search.