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101 " According to the Dalai Lama, happiness is not a static state that we attain. It is an elusive goal that we must constantly pursue. "
― Philip G. Zimbardo , The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life
102 " Yesterday is already a dream And tomorrow but a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope. "
103 " People spend a collective 3 billion hours a week playing video games. A week. Additionally, more than 174 million Americans are gamers. Jane "
― Philip G. Zimbardo , The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It
104 " The video game business is expected to be a $68 billion industry by the end of 2012.11 Compare this with the size of the entire U.S. publishing industry, which in 2010 had net sales revenue of $27.9 billion. "
105 " A twisted sort of shyness has evolved as the digital self becomes less and less like the real-life operator. The ego is the playmaker; the character is the observer, as the external world shrinks to the size of Billy’s bedroom. "
106 " Time perspective is the often nonconscious personal attitude that each of us holds toward time and the process whereby the continual flow of existence is bundled into time categories that help to give order, coherence, and meaning to our lives. "
107 " Futureoriented people believe that when you choose a behavior, you choose its future consequences, but Zajonc, Bargh, and many others in social psychology have demonstrated that sometimes you do not choose a behavior. Sometimes a behavior chooses you based upon the environment in which you find yourself. "
108 " Many males who we have surveyed said they felt most like a man when they were honest about who they were, confidently made decisions and actively pursued their dreams. "
― Philip G. Zimbardo , Man Disconnected: How technology has sabotaged what it means to be male
109 " Rice University found that people judge sounds that increase or decrease in pitch to be longer than sounds of the same duration and constant pitch. The direction of change does not matter. The amount of change drives the effect. "
110 " Simple changes in tone and volume can cause temporal illusions that lead people to believe that more time has passed than really has. "
111 " But that meaningful respect needs to come from doing pro-social things that make life better in some way for others. It should not derive from out-drinking their buddies or doing some stupid shit better than them. "
112 " Though the act of making one’s own bed is simple and mundane, it reiterates that the little things in life can have a significant impact. ‘If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right,’ he said. "
113 " Future-oriented people tend to be more successful professionally and academically, to eat well, to exercise regularly, and to schedule preventive doctor’s exams. "
114 " people who are predominantly present-oriented tend to be willing to help others but appear less willing or able to help themselves. "
115 " The pseudo-scientific myth that all women are naturally predisposed toward sexual restraint and all men toward promiscuity isn’t only inaccurate but dangerous, leading directly to the notion that women who differ from that norm are unacceptable, need to be corrected or deserve to be mistreated,’ says Zhana Vrangalova, professor of human sexuality at New York University. "
116 " We want you to take a minute to identify your very first memory. After you have rummaged through your old-memories store, write down the specifics of the memory. What exactly happened? When? Who was—and was not—there? What about your memory is crystal-clear, and what is missing or foggy? After you’ve settled upon a version of the experience, shift your focus to the thoughts, especially the feelings surrounding them. Be patient. It’s likely that details will surface at their own pace. Once you’re comfortable that you’ve recaptured your first memory, continue on with your reading and rejoin us. Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler felt that "
117 " now that many schools receive funding based on test results, teachers teach for those outcomes, not for curiosity or critical thinking, nor for learning nonspecific principals or values. Such training to focus on fact memorization lowers the intellectual level of the teachers themselves, not just their bored students. "
118 " The psychological term for this process is “construal,” which refers to the way that each of us understands and explains the world. Once "
119 " our use of electronic media—use of televisions, radios, computers, phones, iPods and MP3s, videos, and game players—now accounts for an average of slightly under eight hours (470 minutes) in an average American’s typical twelve-and-a-half-hour day. Over "
120 " three hours of this time (202 minutes) is spent entirely focused on electronic media. Only fifty-two minutes—or 7 percent of the day—is spent reading books and other printed media. The "