The Power of Time Orientation – Philip Zimbardo @ TED

Philip Zimbardo: “Now lets tempt four-year-olds, giving them a treat. They can have one marshmallow now. But if they wait until the experimenter comes back, they can have two. Of course it pays, if you like marshmallows, to wait. What happens is 2/3rds of the kids give in to temptation. They cannot wait. [...]

Why Humans Have Sex

Book-a-minute on steroids, that’s how I think about this study.
In other words, read it and you’ll be more of a connoisseur (ahem :)
Here’s a glimpse:
1. I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted
disease (e.g., herpes, AIDS)
2. Someone offered me money to do it
3. I wanted to get a raise
4. It [...]

Soon half of the richest people in UK will be women

Most of them, by divorce. Inheritance, OK. By divorce, IMO, =resounding theft. What, she needs a gazzilion million pounds to rise the kids? Or because she LET him make sex with her? For loling out loud! :)
I’m afraid the sex war turned from creative and spicy tension to bitter planetary [...]

Recognizing a weakness can lead you to real power

“The greatest strenght of women is their appearance of weakness. The greatest weakness of men is their appeareance of strenght.“
Women recognize, discuss and share their fears and concerns, and they also share information and solutions. Men don’t. And this messes them up. Really bad. Personally and socially.
Recognizing a weakness leads you to real power, but [...]