Valerie At Large

Psychopathology of defeat:

People seem to be innately attracted to defeat’s warm arms. We can’t seem to help it. It seems as if defeat is in fact a precursor to a turnaround, whereas victory tends to encourage us to settle in our existing behaviors.

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I was reading a blog post about why video games are so successful and what methodology is employed, and then it just hit me that the methodology I chose for my future social media success is basically the same, with an adapted approach:

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I went to a “Meet and Greet” breakfast organized by my PTA this morning. I know what you’re thinking: “Valerie at a PTA meeting, as if….” Okay, in my defense I was pushed by someone to go, because everybody knows how I feel about PTA-type functions: not my bag. Anyway, I showed up and was [...]

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What a pearl in the new edition of Brain and Psychology! An article about cognitive sciences and Rembrandt. Being the atypical Type A that I am, I couldn’t help but to read the article title and picture of said artist – without reading the article, of course! So here’s the self-portrait of the old guy [...]

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