“Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is." ~Mae West Corporations are infamous for giving out in-depth intelligence and personality tests like Tony Robbin’s world-famous DISC test to prospective employees in hopes of…
I heard an interesting podcast episode the other day from Radio Labs. It was called 9 volt Nirvana, and the guest Sally Adee spoke about a simulation training exercise used by DARPA. She was asked to aim, shoot, reload and continue on as a sniper for 20 minutes in this…
How to become more intelligent? The great debate on intelligence is a long and complicated one. For centuries, people have tried to discover how to increase their very own intellect. But now, thanks to recent advances in neuroscience on intelligence, psychologists have discovered multiple ways to incur neurogenesis or the growth…
U.S. scientists have discovered a gene that contributes to a higher IQ of a person and can increase it up to six points, according to a new study published in the journal Cell Reports. The gene acts by increasing the effect of the Klotho protein, which is already known to have…
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Ashton Kutcher invested in artificial intelligence developer Vicarious FPC. The total sum of investments was $40 million. Vicarious The founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, the co-owner of Tesla Motors and SpaceX Elon Musk, and a popular actor and venture investor Ashton Kutcher invested $40 million…
How can we explain when a solution to a problem that puzzles us seems to have come came out of nowhere? Maybe knowing a few different types of intuition could help. Intuition is often referred to as "readily available knowledge", which has the property to "suddenly" appear in our heads.…
People are not always fairly judged, and there are psychological effects that cause this to happen. Are we being fair or are we being influenced? People are people, so we judge them fairly, right? Wrong. Many things we witness in other human beings cloud our judgment and cause us to make a…
Our thinking process is continuous. We constantly reflect and solve the challenging puzzles of life. Sometimes it is necessary to help your brain speed up cognitive processes. How to improve your brain function? Try the following tips. 1. Drinking coffee, water & wine Caffeine helps you focus on labor-intensive tasks…
