The fiscal cliff, for all its grand theater, really comes down to people in a room trying to come to an agreement. People doing whatever it takes to get what they want from the other side.
On today’s show, three professional negotiators walk us through techniques that members of Congress may be using right now. They explain these techniques not with textbooks, but with examples from their everyday lives.
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Intriguing perspectives on the relationships between the mind, trauma, and psychic abilities.
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An insightful view of how we can empower ourselves by healing shame, abandonment, and betrayal.
http://www.soundstrue.com/podcast/empowerment-and-navigating-the-drift/
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For the most part in American culture, intellectual struggle in school children is seen as an indicator of weakness, while in Eastern cultures it is not only tolerated, it is often used to measure emotional strength.
Learning From the Things That Annoy Us — Why you have to overcome irritation in order to examine it.
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Marcus Buckingham discusses practical techniques for living life in line with your unique strengths as well as his powerful book, The Truth About You.
This week Alok Jha meets psychologist Elaine Fox from the University of Essex to explore optimism and pessimism. Professor Fox reveals in her book Rainy Brain, Sunny Brain how having one personality type or the other can affect your health and prospects.
Alok also interviewed physicist and science writer Alex Stone about his passion for magic. Stone has penned Fooling Houdini: Adventures in the World of Magic, a book about what the craft of the magician can tell us about the mind, perception and what it means to be human.
Alok gets an update from Liberal Democrat peer Lord Sharkey on his campaign to win a posthumous pardon for one of Britain’s greatest mathematicians, Alan Turing, who was convicted in 1952 of "gross indecency" with another man. Alok is joined by Guardian science correspondent Ian Sample to discuss the legal and ethical dilemmas posed by such a pardon.
Ian also reveals why synthetic biologists are turning mice cells into simple jellyfish.
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Seth Horowitz is an auditory neuroscientist at Brown University and author of the new book The Universal Sense. Horowitz says sound is a sense that’s always "on" â and we take it for granted. He says it developed to trigger deeply-held emotions.
http://www.npr.org/2012/09/07/160766898/sound-a-major-emotional-driver-for-humans?ft=1&f=1007
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