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How Is Memory Affected After Head Trauma?
What is memory? Memory is the faculty by which our mind stores and remembers information. It lets our brain take in, recall, and use information. A brain injury can affect any or all of these aspects or make it difficult to learn new things. Does a brain injury affect memory? In some cases, a brain injury can cause the person to have a hard time remembering both past and [...]
Navigating the Pitfalls of Procrastination Part 2
Please read Part I here Procrastination is part of the human condition. It encompasses dozens of academic journal articles, fills the air of many podcast shows, and constantly seeks to reinvent the productivity advice of many individuals within the marketplace. Whether through a time log, assignment worksheet, or other technologically nuanced manner of keeping track of the hours lost within a work assignment, procrastination has its predominant features in [...]
Re-Engaging Mundane Tasks
Behavioral economics and psychological research now indicate that people often quit their tasks prematurely when not enough attention is required to keep them engaged. Through a meaningful and proven process called tangential immersion, individuals now can persist with the primary task at hand, being considered as boring, with a more engaging and rewarding secondary task that requires more attention. Overall persistence of mind and engagement are seen to experience [...]
How To Stop Overthinking in a Relationship?
Overthinking can be a result of anxiety, insecurities, low self-esteem, and other things. Overthinking can cripple a relationship, so it’s a good idea to learn more about this tendency and about how to avoid it. Overthinking Is Often Rooted in Wanting to Control the Situation A lot of us find comfort in a sense of control – it provides an illusion of predictable outcomes, and thus – the feeling [...]
Building Connection in a Disconnected World
Economists describe the Great Resignation as the Great Disconnection, and this was illuminated between April - September, 2021 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Especially for those in leisure and hospitality, their marketplace has been an evolving door of new workers. One in 14 hotel clerks, restaurant servers, and barbacks said their goodbyes within a single month of last year. Those that received pandemic-relief economic stimulus checks, student-loan [...]
Supporting Individuals with Social Anxiety on the Job
Nowadays, more than half of Americans self-proclaim themselves to be altogether shy. Based on the current research and psychological literature, socially anxious individuals meet criteria for maintaining anxiety that prevents them from living the life they desire. Experiences of this anxiety domain can come in the form of passing up a promotion in order to avert staff-related trainings, stomachaches and sleepless nights prior to an annual review, existential dread [...]