Emotional self-regulation and Obama

Great arti­cle in the New York Times on Oba­ma’s emo­tion­al self-reg­u­la­­tion abil­i­ties: The Cool Fac­tor: Nev­er Let Them See You Sweat — “We even ele­vate such equi­lib­ri­um to the super­hu­man: calm, as applied to No Dra­ma Oba­ma, often comes linked to the mod­i­fi­er “preter­nat­ur­al.” — “But the calm tem­pera­ment is not so super­hu­man, nor is it…

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Training Young Brains to Behave

Great arti­cle in the New York Times titled Train­ing Young Brains to Behave. A cou­ple of quotes: — “But just as biol­o­gy shapes behav­ior, so behav­ior can accel­er­ate biol­o­gy. And a small group of edu­ca­tion­al and cog­ni­tive sci­en­tists now say that men­tal exer­cis­es of a cer­tain kind can teach chil­dren to become more self-pos­sessed at…

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