Finds for Fridays

Here are some articles we liked, and thought you would to:

Science Daily talks about how the military has started using mindfulness meditation training to help build resilience in troops and reduce the likelihood of PTSD.

J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, gives a compelling commencement address at Harvard talking about the benefits of failure and adversity and the importance of imagination in empathy.  You have the option or watching or reading it.

A great talk about the values behind words and how language can structure our thinking as well as some gifts from adversity.  The talk is given by a woman that is a double amputee.

Even people that are high acheivers sometimes feel like an impostor or fraud and that any day someone just smart enough will figure them out for what they are afraid they are.

The History of the fear of ‘information overload’ it goes further back than today’s fears with facebook, blogging and constant availability of information without a need for memorization.

Frontline brings you a film about how our digital technology is making our lives better, and worse, with Digital Nation.


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