15 Links to Keep Your Health Up
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It is summer time and everyone (including myself) is trying to achieve their version of the "summer bod". Here are some links to help anyone that's in exercise mode.
Of course, the last one is my favourite because sometimes I need a coach to tell me to keep going, to remind me of my goals, to light the fire under my ass.
Now that you've made it to the bottom of the list, what's keeping you from getting your butt off that chair and exercising?
Tap Into Your Creativity
For all you creative types, this article is for you!
"Take this clever experiment, led by the psychologist Michael Robinson. He randomly assigned a few hundred undergraduates to two different groups. The first group was given the following instructions: “You are 7 years old, and school is canceled. You have the entire day to yourself. What would you do? Where would you go? Who would you see?” The second group was given the exact same instructions, except the first sentence was deleted. As a result, these students didn’t imagine themselves as seven year olds. After writing for ten minutes, the subjects were then given various tests of creativity, such as trying to invent alternative uses for an old car tire, or listing all the things you could do with a brick. Interestingly, the students who imagined themselves as young kids scored far higher on the creative tasks, coming up with twice as many ideas as the control group. It turns out that that we can recover the creativity we’ve lost with time. We just have to pretend we’re a little kid." - Jonah LehrerLehrer mentions so many other ways to be creative in different settings; continue to the article here.