What Is Executive Brain Function?
Like many brain deficits, ADHD affects frontal lobe executive functioning, which coordinates everything we do by processing and organizing information.
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The man who hunts for dropped coins
Roger Pasquier hunts for coins on NYC sidewalks and keeps track of how much he finds. He discovered an odd consequence of everyone having a smartphone: people don’t pick up change on the sidewalk anymore. From 1987 to 2006, he averaged about fifty-eight dollars a year. Then Apple introduced the iPhone, and millions of potential competitors started to stare at […]
Read moreAlbert Einstein Quote – The World Is A Dangerous Place
“The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” – Albert Einstein
Read moreCartoon – Time is Money
Poem – DO-OVER (By Ray Gallucci)
DO-OVER (Inspired while watching “United 93,” the one flight that was prevented by its heroic passengers from fulfilling its mission of murder on September 11, 2001) If you could go back To one time and place, Stop accursed attack On the human race, Could you simply choose (Knowing what you know) Holocaust of Jews? Nine-eleven’s blow? […]
Read moreCartoon – The Seven Ages Of Man
Maya Angelou Quote – We Must Support Each Other
“Each of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm. When we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.” – Maya Angelou
Read moreShort Story – He Landed Mad (By Carol Park)
He Landed Mad He lands with embers smoldering within and feels as senseless as the crazy cow plunging herself into barbed wire again and again at his cattle ranch. He walks the gangway behind the wisp of a woman. During the entire second part of his flight, she sat with her laptop open near him and nothing more than […]
Read moreJohn Cage Quote – Become Fluent
“Our task is to become fluent with the life we’re leading” – John Cage
Read moreJohn Snelling quote – Suffering has its positive side
“Underlying our glitzy modern consumer culture there is a deep spiritual undernourishment and malaise that manifests all kinds of symptoms: nervous disorders, loneliness, alienation, purposelessness So blanking out, running away, burying our heads in sand or videotape will take us nowhere in the long run. If we really want to solve our problems — and the world’s problems, for they stem […]
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