i worked so hard to get where i was, why did i let it all go? ... heaven forbid me from trying to play catch up again

Giddy up and go
We'll go so far as we please

Giddy up and gold mine
Different place, different time
All the stars are in their prime
Pastel trailer park, stars so bright to hide the dark
All is quiet in the yard

Giddy up and gold dust, all the cars turn to rust
You've got no means for wanderlust
Pastel trailer park, stars so bright to hide the dark
All is quiet in the yard

If you are so frequently in love
If you prefer it all to me then my love
You go down the longest road to nowhere
You pull it apart and you're just left there

Giddy up and gold mine, horse dust down time
Its my life, its my time, we've been gettin' nowhere
Gold mine, different place, different time
Hold me down, Hold me down
Hope will be found, Follow me

If you are so frequently in love
If you prefer it all to me then my love
You go down the longest road to nowhere
You pull it apart and your just left there

They're waiting for it, you're waiting for it
And you're waving in it, and you're craving in it
If you fill my cup with all you must
To speak from something

If you are so frequently in love
If you prefer it all to me then my love
You go down the longest road to nowhere
You pull it apart and your just left there
You go down the longest road to nowhere
You pull it apart and your just left there.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

pg 118- "the danger in the calling is that they'll tell you anything to get you off their backs, and if you act on that and take it at face value, you could make a mistake.
-119- "allowing people to operate without having to explain themselves constantly turns out to be like the rule of agreement in improv. It enables rapid cognition"

--> Johnathan W. Schooler, pioneered research on effect called 'verbal overshadowing'.
-the left hemisphere thinks in words, right hemisphere thinks in pictures, and what happened when you described the face in words was that your actual visual memory was displaced. Your thinking was bumped from the right to the left hemisphere. when you were faced with the lineup the second time around, what you were drawing on was your memory of what you said the waitress looked like, not your memory of what you saw she looked like. And that's a problem because when it comes to faces, we are an awful lot better at visual recognition than we are at verbal description. By forcing you to verbalize that memory - to explain yourself - I seperate you from those instincts."
-- Schooler and insight puzzles: "he found that people who were asked to explain themselves ended up solving 30percent fewer problems than those who weren't. In short, when you write down your thoughts, your chances of having the flash of insight you need in order to come up with a solution are significantly impaired"
- With a logic problem, asking people to explain themselves doesn't impair their ability to come up with the answers... but problems that require a flash of insight operate by different rules.

- when you start becoming reflective about the process, it undermines your ability. You lose the flow. There are certain kinds of fluid, intuitive, nonverbal kinds of experiences that are vulnerable to this process."
- all of these abilities are incredibly fragile. ..(insight)

- all of his thinking was going on behind the locked door of his unconscious.

 

- internal computer effortlessly and instantly found a pattern in the chaos.
-"...I wanted to gag. What are you talking about? You know you get caught up in forms, in matrices, in computer programs, and it just draws you in. They were so focused on the mechanics and the process that they never looked at the problem holistically. In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning" -p125

"if you get too caught up in the production of information, you drown in the data" - blink pg 144
"the process draws you in. You disaggregated everything and tear it apart, but you are never able to synthesize the whole."4

Industrial organizational psychologist: Apply principles of psychology to personnel, administration, management, sales, and marketing problems. Activities may include policy planning; employee screening, training and development; and organizational development and analysis. May work with management to reorganize the work setting to improve worker productivity.

"I only knew that I had to try… I would be unhappy if I didn’t try…to have a goal and see how much I was capable of doing.”- Suzanne Farrell

To outshine other incumbents being interviewed for the same job as you, you must do your homework and be very prepared to stand out as the organized, prepared professional you are.

Here are a few of the tougher interview questions that are often flubbed, with the appropriate answers:

1. “Tell me a bit about yourself.” Give no more than a 3 minute synopsis of your career to date. “I am a ______ with _____ years of experience. My most recent position was as __________ with _____ . Mention (relevant) education. My areas of expertise are: 1., 2., 3. and here are some examples of those areas.” Interviewers do not want to hear anything personal about you in this 3 minute period.

2. “Where do you want to be in five years from now?” I hope to still be working for this company, with newly acquired skills, and ongoing responsibility.”

3. “Why do you want to work for this company?” Don’t say, “Because there is an opening and I really need a job.” This is where you talk about what you gleaned from the research you have conducted on company and possibly mention a common shared value. Show excitement and passion in your voice and tone. “This job posting so closely matched my qualifications and as a client I really like the customer service I get when I call with a problem.”

4. “Why should we hire you?” This is a freeze up question. Mention the benefits you will bring to the position and to the company. Tell them you are going to save them money, increase productivity or free them up to do their job by taking care of everything else using the skills that you have. Do not rehash your skills, go for the benefits!

5. “What is your greatest accomplishment to date?” Try to use a recent example that is relevant to the position and the company that you are interviewing with, but it is not mandatory. Be sure to use the Situation, Action, Result format. Tell the accomplishment with pride, and smile.

6. “What skill do you believe needs development?” Don’t say, “I need to learn Spanish so when I go south each winter I can talk to the local senoritas.” No one likes to be asked the weakness question but when you are prepared for it it’s easier to address. There are a few different ways to answer this question. One example to tell them something you would like to be better at; you can do it now but you would like to excel at it. OR your weakness could be something that was a weakness but is now a strength. Whatever you say, be sure to always turn it around to sound positive.

7. “Why did you leave your last job?” This question is to determine fit. If you weren’t fired, then tell exactly what happened. If you quit due to conflict with a manager or colleagues, tell them that your values were not congruent with those of the new manager. Everyone can relate to this response because it is the truth. If you were fired you have to craft your explanation to be short, succinct and truthful but not totally disclosing. Stick to a one sentence answer.

8. “Is there any skill or knowledge area required in this job that you would not be able to perform?” This is not the time to mention that you had by-pass surgery eight years ago. As long as the answer is ‘no’ you are not obliged to share any personal or health issue with the interviewer. If you have a condition that needs special attention or accommodation as long as it doesn’t prevent you from carrying out the responsibilities as advertised you do not have to mention it until you have signed off on the offer.

Whatever you do be yourself, be honest and don’t feel like you have to over explain yourself. Remember that people remember stories they don’t remember words so give heart felt examples and practice, practice, practice.

Colleen Clarke
Career Specialist & Corporate Trainer
www.colleeenclarke.com
Author of Networking: How to Build Relationships That Count and
How to Get a Job and Keep It and
The Power of Mentorship: Visibility Networking

Controlling Our Brain's Perception Of Emotional Events

ScienceDaily (Apr. 22, 2009) — Research performed by Nicole Lauzon and Dr. Steven Laviolette of the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at The University of Western Ontario has found key processes in the brain that control the emotional significance of our experiences and how we form memories of them.

A lack of proper brain function in this area is what lies beneath such conditions as Schizophrenia and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  In people who suffer from these conditions emotional experiences can become distorted, causing the person to ‘lose touch’ with reality. 

Lauzon, a Doctoral graduate student in the Laviolette laboratory, discovered that specific receptors for the neurotransmitter dopamine can control how the brain processes emotionally significant information as well as memories for those experiences. Using a rodent model of emotional learning and memory formation, the researchers found by increasing the activity of a specific dopamine receptor in a region of the brain called the pre-frontal cortex, it was able to transform a normally insignificant emotional experience into a very strong emotional memory. In contrast, when a different subtype of the dopamine system was activated, it was able to block the ability to recall an emotionally charged experience.

“Our findings have profound implications for understanding how specific brain receptors can control the magnitude of emotional experience and memory formation,” says Laviolette. 

“Targeting these receptor systems pharmacologically may offer new therapeutic treatments for controlling the emotional perception and memory deficits observed in psychiatric disorders such as Schizophrenia and PTSD.” Laviolette is a professor in the Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology and a National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD) Young Investigator. 

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, over 280,000 Canadians suffer from Schizophrenia, and approximately 51 million people worldwide.

About eight per cent of the population will have PTSD symptoms at some point in their lives according to the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the United States.

The research was funded by NARSAD, the Ontario Mental Health Foundation and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

The findings have been published online by The Journal of Neuroscience.

I want to be lady gaga. I want to graduate from an ivy league school and sing about sex n wear retarded clothes n dance scandalously in music videos :D

Take cover. Signs don't show. You drove me off the road.

But you let go, Cos your hope is gone; and every question fades away

It's a shame you don't know what you're running from
Would your bones have to break, and your lights turn off
Would it take the end of time to hear you heart's false start?

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[ellie goulding]