Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Just a little thought of the day to get you thinking on how your personality may shape the way you learn, react to feedback and take on advice.
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This week on Neuroscience Wednesday Merit Club brings you Marc Lewis' talk on addiction and whether it should be labelled a disease.
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The word love is one of the most complicated words to ever exist, with different meanings to each and every one of us. It is elusive. We learn about it through various platforms and experience it to a variety of degree throughout our lives.In this week's blog we look at the fascinating clip with science journalist Sharon Brock, who looks through the lens of neuroscience to explain the chemicals that are triggered in our brain when we fall in love and how they change over time.
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As this evocative and emotional video so aptly reminds us, we should never hold back from letting those people in our lives we hold dear know how much they mean to us. For those people who have taught you life lessons, or have looked out for you at some point this past year, thank them. Take time to reach out. Visit, or even just give them a call. It's a time to be grateful.
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How do you approach stress? Do you dread stressful days? Or does the thought of stress make you feel anxious and unproductive? What would happen if you changed your approach to stress and saw it as a positive, and a fundamental element to a meaningful life? In a talk that is insightful and inspiring, informed and surprising, Kirsty McGonigal addresses the paradox of stress, exploring how it can have a positive effect on your wellbeing and bring you opportunities and a chance to develop.
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Do you ever struggle with what to do when you're bored? Do you find yourself trying to be anything but bored? Manoush Zomorodi deals with the feeling of boredom and she explains exactly why you shouldn't stray away from it. She talks about its benefits and why feeling bored for her was the best thing to ever happen.
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Marriage is certainly not for everyone. Yet, for some people finding a soulmate and marrying them always seems to be a life-goal that is expected of you. For some people it’s a life long desire, and we can be driven by that need to find a partner. Certainly, for Tracy McMillan, who opens up with honesty and frankness about her life-story to date, this pressing need to marry someone was there from a young age. However, as Tracy has realised, there is a lot to be said for taking a step back from our pursuit for a partner… first, we need to marry ourselves.
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Unsure whether you would consider yourself an extrovert or an introvert? Interested in finding out, and understanding how this may be effecting your approach to life, and the ways you react to different pressures, stimulants, and situations? Take a watch of Dr. Brian Little's lecture to find out which personality traits you have, and how the people around you may be acting out of character in order to advance their personal projects.
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Are you proud to be a feminist? We hope so! But how well do you know the theories and ideas behind the movement? What's your stance on gender, what does it mean, and should it even exist? Taking this Crash Course Sociology clip as our reference, we have rounded up some definitions and theories to get your teeth into. You may be well-versed in theories of gender already, but if you're maybe not quite so clued up, we won't judge you, and we hope you might find the video as insightful as we did.
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"Words are power. Words speak life" asserts Lisa Nichols, and wow are her words powerful. Emotionally-charged and so inspiring, Lisa's Find Your Way Back speech reveals her very personal struggle with an abusive relationship and depression, and then the ways in which she turned her life around in just 30 days, discovering herself, and learning how to love herself again.
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Do you ever wish people could just be more frank about money, or have you ever felt unsure what advice is best to follow when it comes to spending and keeping control of your finances? This compilation of interviews highlights just how many approaches you can take to keeping in control of your money. As the many different people interviewed convey, there's no set plan or answer.
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In this quick video, Mel Robbins tells you how you can start getting out of the weeds, how to get out of a rut, and how to start turning your hectic schedules around, right now!
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For many of us, we will automatically gravitate towards fiction and the best-selling charts when we're perusing a book shop. We'll not pause for a moment to even think about finding a book of poems... unless maybe for a gift... a coffee table book... or a comical one for the downstairs loo. We thought it may just be us, but we were encouraged to listen to Ariel and to find that she too had felt this divide between the world of novels in contrast to poetry. It got us thinking, why is it that we feel this disconnect to poetry? ...
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Matthew Hussey faces up to the concept of social anxiety in this video, with insight and advice on a very human process that can occur within all of us. Rather than allowing for our moments of anxiousness to become all-consuming, Matthew argues that people need to tackle it and shift the way in which we identify to it.
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Provocative, poignant and powerful, choreographer Esie Mensah has created an incredible piece of work Shades of Blackness that draws upon the concept of shadeism. Esie's evocative piece uses the intensity of dance to emphasise the damaging ways in which discrimination of skin tones still has the power to divide and create feelings of confusion and isolation, with the stereotypes and judgements that still exist in society today.
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Frank and humorous as ever, Alain de Botton explores our approach to sex in today’s society. From what makes us so attracted, psychologically and physically, to certain people, to why we are not all turned on by the same person, keeping that fire burning in a relationship and finding ways to have more sex to cutting back and avoiding ways in which sex can become a distraction.
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