18 May
2014
OTHER POSTS
What the Prisoner’s Dilemma Taught Me
I’m more actively engaged in learning more now than I ever was in college but there are college intellectual experiences that I often reflect on. Learning about psychologist Robert Alexrod’s 1984 experiment, The Prisoner’s Dilemma is one of those. This experiment taught me about decision making and the role that emotions play. It taught me about […]
Amazing 4 Minute Video: A Taste of Vietnam
A Taste of Vietnam from The Perennial Plate on Vimeo.
Yoga: Changing The Brain’s Stressful Habits
Three times a week at 7AM my Dad drives to a dance studio five blocks from the beach. In the bright, hardwood room, which sits above a Radioshack, a muscular man with a shaved head and board shorts whispers instructions in a mix of English and Sanskrit. My Dad, and the rest of the class […]
How Motivation Can Go Way Beyond Money
Via (Big Think) A lot of people believe that what motivates people is just money. A colleague of mine, Paul Lawrence, and I, by studying some of the most recent research on what goes on in the human brain, have found that human beings are very deeply motivated by four primary drives. There is the […]