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Thought for the Day: This week I viewed a PBS special showing of the induction of the Dave Clark Five into the Rock and Roll Music Hall of Fame. On the show, Tom Hanks presented the award to the band. The entire show was wonderful and if it is broadcast on your PBS station I would highly recommend it. Because of the show I chose a song that I might not have chosen before hearing Tom Hanks speak about this group. I remember the excitement surrounding the British Invasion of The Beatles and The Dave Clark Five, but realized while listening as an adult and a psychologist, that their songs were truly songs for the soul....
Thought for the Day: I have dedicated the month of January to three things: 1) celebrating the 2nd anniversary of writing the blog with over 81,000 page views in just 2 years, 2) a look back on the #Top10 posts from 2013 in the various categories covered by my blog, and 3) new beginnings with new posts and ideas to help you redesign your lives and start moving towards a future that include your dreams. #FF Friday's Fabulous was one of the new posts added to the blog in January 2013. It has been a popular series on the blog bringing a mix of informative research articles, videos and inspirational stories that I find over the course of the week. Here are 5 of your favorites Fabulous Finds which had the most page views last year. In two weeks I will share the #Top5 of 2013.
Thought for the Day: Usually on Friday's I share Fabulous Finds on various topics that I read over the week. This week I am sharing something a bit different. It came to me in an e-mail. I actually hate chain letters or e-mails imploring that you send them to 10 friends or more or else you will have bad luck. Usually I do not forward them, since I find them annoying. This one felt different, however, I still felt funny sending off a mass e-mail. Instead, I decided to post it on the blog & hope that you will share it with others in any way you feel comfortable. It is the story of a brave woman who risked her life to save children's lives. I do not know who wrote this e-mail, but have heard the story before & know it is based on a real person. Last week in my psychology trivia question, I shared the fact that only 42% of people who find out that a friend is suffering from domestic abuse do anything to help their friend & insure their safety. The psychology of bravery is not well understood, but we all could learn from Irena Sendler who could not simply stand by & ignore the tragedy that was occurring in Warsaw Poland. I hope you will share this find with others as a role model of bravery to emulate when we learn that others are suffering. Have a wonderful weekend.
Remember this Lady?
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, In memory of the 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, 6 million Jews, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!
Thought for the Day: If there had been instagram pictures and tweets exposing the Nazi's horrific death camps, would the world (including the USA) have waited to enter the WWII? My initial thought was that things would have been different. However, I'm not so sure, making it my Wake Up Wednesday low for the week & food for thought. What do you think? Do Instagram and Twitter make us empathize and feel other people's pain?
As pictures of the chemical attack on a neighborhood in Syria circulate around the internet & the news media, why is public opinion not siding with the president's desire to react to the heinous use of chemical weapons? I know that our nation is war weary, but still have trouble with what is happening.
A study I read last week may shed some light on this question. In the study, which appears in the August issue of the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,* James Coan, a psychology professor in U.VA.'s College of Arts & Sciences, used functional magnetic brain scans to see how the subjects' brains reacted to the potential threat of an electric shock to themselves, someone they cared about or a stranger. "Our self comes to include the people we feel close to," according to Coan. Although our brains are hardwired to feel other people's pain as if it were our own, if we care about the other person, if we do not know them or care about them, we are unmoved by the pain.
Why don't we care about all human being's pain? Are we unable to imagine that the women and children in Syria, could be our family or our children? If someone photo-shopped the images & made them look like the typical American family, or if we knew someone whose home was hit in the attack, would we feel the pain, empathize and demand action?
There is a saying in Judaism, "If you save one life you save the world." If our brains are built to empathize can we learn to expand our empathy to include the entire family of man, not just our race, religion, nation or personal family? I hope for the future of mankind & the world, that we can.
On a brighter note, my Wake Up Moment High of this week is connected to the photo above. An anonymous diner at a restaurant in NC seems to have had empathy for a stranger & found a way to pay it forward.** The note was given to the parents of an 8 year old special needs child, who was having a tough time & was making a scene at the eatery. A waitress was in tears when she delivered the note to them. It came from another customer who witnessed them struggling with their child and paid the couple's dinner tab.
When you see someone in pain, do you empathize or ignore them? What would happen if you imagined yourself in their shoes? What were your wake up moments this week?
*To read more about the research:
L. Beckes, J. A. Coan, K. Hasselmo. Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2012; 8 (6): 670 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss046
**More on this story
1) HealthTap.com Over a month ago, I was invited to join a new Interactive Health Network. Since I don't have a lot of time, I actually ignored the invitation until recently. When I finally did, I realized it was truly is a fabulous find. HealthTap is the world’s leading Interactive Health Network that
provides patients free access to thousands of the best U.S. licensed
doctors through all web channels & mobile devices. As a member of
HealthTap’s Medical Expert Network, I am able help millions of people
searching for my expertise online, help new patients learn about me, & better
serve my existing clients through my convenient & free
state-of-the-art Virtual Practice. I find it a fascinating & rewarding way to connect to people from around the country who want to improve their mental health. To join my HealthTap professional
referral network or follow me as a patient visit my Virtual Practice:
https://www.healthtap.com/experts/12355789-dr-barbara-lavi
2) Cloe Olson, 5 year old, Calls 911 Thinks Daddy is on the Other End (Video) of the line. Cloe remembered a talk by police & fire department & called 911 when her mother began choking. Take a look & be sure to share the 911 video jingle with your kids. You never know when they may need to call 911. (from Huffington Post Parents)
3) Clyde Shields, Chief A-Bomb Test Pilot, Sends Unforgettable Letter To Grandson
The Huffington Post | By Ann Brenoff What did the chief pilot for the A Bomb want his grandson to know & what can we learn from his experiences?
Thought for the Day: Since I had trouble finding pure psychological research on free advertising campaigns, I searched for information on the history of advertising which led to today's trivia question. Certainly, psychology has played a large part in the advertising & marketing industry. Here's today's question:
Was Burma Shave, Coca Cola or the Anheuser Busch the 1st company to use free giveaways to promote their products?
Come back on Thursday for the answer.
Photos from WikiCommons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cocacola-5cents-1900_edit1.jpg
Set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66.
Anheuser Busch Logo A&Eagle.png
Wake Up and Dream Catalyst: Short inspirational thoughts for the day. Raising questions & hopefully opening a dialogue with people interested in learning how to turn their dreams into plans and start navigating their way towards them.
Showing posts with label #History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #History. Show all posts
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Saturday's Songs for the Soul: PBS, Tom Hanks & The Dave Clark Five's Glad All Over
Friday, January 10, 2014
#FF 5 of #Top10 Friday's Fabulous Finds 2013
Thought for the Day: I have dedicated the month of January to three things: 1) celebrating the 2nd anniversary of writing the blog with over 81,000 page views in just 2 years, 2) a look back on the #Top10 posts from 2013 in the various categories covered by my blog, and 3) new beginnings with new posts and ideas to help you redesign your lives and start moving towards a future that include your dreams. #FF Friday's Fabulous was one of the new posts added to the blog in January 2013. It has been a popular series on the blog bringing a mix of informative research articles, videos and inspirational stories that I find over the course of the week. Here are 5 of your favorites Fabulous Finds which had the most page views last year. In two weeks I will share the #Top5 of 2013.
Friday, October 4, 2013
#FF Friday's Fabulous Finds: How A Woman Plumber Saved 2,500 Children
Thought for the Day: Usually on Friday's I share Fabulous Finds on various topics that I read over the week. This week I am sharing something a bit different. It came to me in an e-mail. I actually hate chain letters or e-mails imploring that you send them to 10 friends or more or else you will have bad luck. Usually I do not forward them, since I find them annoying. This one felt different, however, I still felt funny sending off a mass e-mail. Instead, I decided to post it on the blog & hope that you will share it with others in any way you feel comfortable. It is the story of a brave woman who risked her life to save children's lives. I do not know who wrote this e-mail, but have heard the story before & know it is based on a real person. Last week in my psychology trivia question, I shared the fact that only 42% of people who find out that a friend is suffering from domestic abuse do anything to help their friend & insure their safety. The psychology of bravery is not well understood, but we all could learn from Irena Sendler who could not simply stand by & ignore the tragedy that was occurring in Warsaw Poland. I hope you will share this find with others as a role model of bravery to emulate when we learn that others are suffering. Have a wonderful weekend.
Remember this Lady?
Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98) Warsaw, Poland
During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.
Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.
Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.
During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.
Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.
Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.
In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
Later another politician, Barack Obama, won for his work as a community organizer for ACORN.
In MEMORIAM - 65 YEARS LATER I'm doing my small part by forwarding this message. I hope you'll consider doing the same. It is now more than 65 years since the Second World War in Europe ended.
This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, In memory of the 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, 6 million Jews, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!
Now, more than ever, with Iran , and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be 'a myth', it's imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.
This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!
Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world. Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.
Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Wake Up Wednesday's: Would Instagram & Twitter Have Changed WW II?
Thought for the Day: If there had been instagram pictures and tweets exposing the Nazi's horrific death camps, would the world (including the USA) have waited to enter the WWII? My initial thought was that things would have been different. However, I'm not so sure, making it my Wake Up Wednesday low for the week & food for thought. What do you think? Do Instagram and Twitter make us empathize and feel other people's pain?
As pictures of the chemical attack on a neighborhood in Syria circulate around the internet & the news media, why is public opinion not siding with the president's desire to react to the heinous use of chemical weapons? I know that our nation is war weary, but still have trouble with what is happening.
A study I read last week may shed some light on this question. In the study, which appears in the August issue of the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,* James Coan, a psychology professor in U.VA.'s College of Arts & Sciences, used functional magnetic brain scans to see how the subjects' brains reacted to the potential threat of an electric shock to themselves, someone they cared about or a stranger. "Our self comes to include the people we feel close to," according to Coan. Although our brains are hardwired to feel other people's pain as if it were our own, if we care about the other person, if we do not know them or care about them, we are unmoved by the pain.
Why don't we care about all human being's pain? Are we unable to imagine that the women and children in Syria, could be our family or our children? If someone photo-shopped the images & made them look like the typical American family, or if we knew someone whose home was hit in the attack, would we feel the pain, empathize and demand action?
There is a saying in Judaism, "If you save one life you save the world." If our brains are built to empathize can we learn to expand our empathy to include the entire family of man, not just our race, religion, nation or personal family? I hope for the future of mankind & the world, that we can.
On a brighter note, my Wake Up Moment High of this week is connected to the photo above. An anonymous diner at a restaurant in NC seems to have had empathy for a stranger & found a way to pay it forward.** The note was given to the parents of an 8 year old special needs child, who was having a tough time & was making a scene at the eatery. A waitress was in tears when she delivered the note to them. It came from another customer who witnessed them struggling with their child and paid the couple's dinner tab.
When you see someone in pain, do you empathize or ignore them? What would happen if you imagined yourself in their shoes? What were your wake up moments this week?
*To read more about the research:
L. Beckes, J. A. Coan, K. Hasselmo. Familiarity promotes the blurring of self and other in the neural representation of threat. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2012; 8 (6): 670 DOI: 10.1093/scan/nss046
Friday, July 19, 2013
#FF Friday's Fabulous Finds: HealthTap.com, 911, A War Hero's Advice, & Adoption
Thought for the Day: It's Friday & time for some #FF Fabulous Finds. I like to bring a mix of great resources, inspiration, psychology & education. Today's mix does just that! There's an amazing free web & mobile service where you can ask experts all your medical & psychological questions, the story of how a 5 year old used 911 to help her mother who was choking, what a former A Bomb test pilot wanted his grandson to know, & an interesting take on adoption & birth parenting issues. I hope you enjoy the finds & have a great weekend.
Stay tuned for more information about the free e-book promotion I am preparing on Amazon.com. I realized as I was doing preparations that my book was ranked #56 in Self Help/Dreams on the Kindle store!
Here are this week's finds:
2) Cloe Olson, 5 year old, Calls 911 Thinks Daddy is on the Other End (Video) of the line. Cloe remembered a talk by police & fire department & called 911 when her mother began choking. Take a look & be sure to share the 911 video jingle with your kids. You never know when they may need to call 911. (from Huffington Post Parents)
3) Clyde Shields, Chief A-Bomb Test Pilot, Sends Unforgettable Letter To Grandson
The Huffington Post | By Ann Brenoff What did the chief pilot for the A Bomb want his grandson to know & what can we learn from his experiences?
4) Lost And Found: A Birthmother's Secret Son,
originally posted on
by Claire Berman (I found this on Huff Post Post 50) I have worked with both adults & children struggling with the challenges that adoption brings. This article shares both sides of the issue in an unusual way.
by Claire Berman (I found this on Huff Post Post 50) I have worked with both adults & children struggling with the challenges that adoption brings. This article shares both sides of the issue in an unusual way. Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Tuesday's Psychology Trivia: Who Invented Givaway Advertising: Coca Cola, Anheuser Busch or Burma Shave??
Thought for the Day: Since I had trouble finding pure psychological research on free advertising campaigns, I searched for information on the history of advertising which led to today's trivia question. Certainly, psychology has played a large part in the advertising & marketing industry. Here's today's question:
Was Burma Shave, Coca Cola or the Anheuser Busch the 1st company to use free giveaways to promote their products?
Come back on Thursday for the answer.
Photos from WikiCommons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cocacola-5cents-1900_edit1.jpg
Set of signs promoting Burma-Shave, on U.S. Route 66.
Anheuser Busch Logo A&Eagle.png
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