Just muttering
Talking oneself into heroics
A study at Columbia and Harvard, reported in TIME, suggests that acting powerful makes a person powerful in fact. When tested before and after spending fifteen minutes in aggressive, macho, top-dog postures (the two on the left)— —the (male) reporter’s testosterone level doubled. Doubled! I can believe this. I am by nature an introverted, even…
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This is my favorite time of year. One of the pleasures of late fall is the view out my window, of a single tree, probably a liquidamber, that becomes scarlet as soon as the frost hits it: To my amusement, I realized a couple of years ago that the people on that side of the…
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