Personal Growth - Psychology

Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill

Meredith F. Small / LiveScience's Human Nature Columnist
Fri Jun 20, 9:45 AM ET

Humans are fundamentally social animals. Our social nature means that we interact with each other in positive, friendly ways, and it also means we know how to manipulate others in a very negative way.

Neurophysiologist Katherine Rankin at the University of California, San Francisco, has also recently discovered that sarcasm, which is both positively funny and negatively nasty, plays an important part in human social interaction.

So what?

 
News Cellar - Startup / Entrepreneurship

Inside Entrepreneurship: Tips to ID a healthy in-home startup

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Q: Am I crazy to consider taking a job in a startup that is operated out of someone's home? The job seems to be interesting and has some career upside if the company catches on. Still, I'm concerned. Is this a smart career move?

-- Hannah L., Sacramento, Calif.

 
Personal Growth - Life

13 Rock-Solid Ways To Build Knowledge For Lifetime

"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

- Juvenal

KnowledgeThis post introduces you to simple steps toward managing information and toward rock-solid knowledge. No cheap miracles, just a clear and straight approach based on facts and science. I'm sure you'll find some points obvious, but please do not stop reading if this is the case. This is the shortest path to empowering knowledge:

1. Nurse your hunger for knowledge.

If your motivation for getting knowledge is weak you can stop reading this post. All the other advices will not work for you. Your motivation can't be shallow (passing an exam, showing off, impressing the boss, etc.). You have to find the clear-cut link between knowledge and the value it brings to life.

Do you love science programs? Are you interested in how your computer works? Are you surfing the net looking for news? If the answer to this questions is yes, you are probably on the right track. But if you can spend more than 30 minutes on a totally uncreative and non-intellectual activity (like gossip, adult magazines, unadulterated laziness, etc.), then you may have a motivational problem.

Remember that hunger for knowledge grows as you learn more (the more you know the more you know you don't know). So there is an excellent remedy for poor motivation: learn more and see how it can impact your and others' life. Recent research shows that strong motivation may actually count more than your IQ.


 
 
News Cellar - Startup / Entrepreneurship

Indian gumshoe finds boom in busted marriages

by Paul PeacheyWed Jun 13, 1:25 AM ET

The successful Indian businessman had a wife, a lover who was an exotic bar dancer -- and an awful lot to lose, so he practised exceptionally safe sex.

His first precaution was to get on a plane and put nearly 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) between his wife at home in Dubai and the hotel in the western Indian city of Mumbai where his mistress waited for their regular weekend trysts.

In case anybody was watching, he left his car at one hotel and sneaked out the back exit of the car park before checking in at another hotel nearby.

It did him little good. When he answered his hotel doorbell early one Sunday morning it was not room service but his angry wife and his parents who had just arrived on a flight from Dubai to catch him out.

 
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