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These are context neutral events, used in controlled laboratory experiments.
 
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== An Incredible Graduation Gift from Dad ==
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== From Dummy to Celebrated Brain Surgeon ==
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Brenna Martins dad evidently doesnt like last-minute shopping. Bryan Martin a purchased a gift for his daughters high school graduation -- which happened earlier this month -- thirteen years ago. He managed to keep it hidden this whole time, and his "moving, touching, nostalgic, and thoughtful" present (her words) brought Brenna to tears when dad finally gave it to her last week.
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nterviewer: "At the age of ten you were seen as a dummy. By the age of 12, you were seen as one of the brightest kids in the class. What happened in those two years?" Dr. Ben Carson: "The key thing in those two years is my mother prayed to God and asked for wisdom and came up with the idea of turning off the TV. Should I say this on a TV show? (Laughter) we were allowed to watch only two or three television programs during the week, and with all that spare time, we had to read two books apiece from the Detroit Public Library...
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/An-Incredible-Graduation-Gift-from-Dad-R2viuk.html An Incredible Graduation Gift from Dad]]
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/From-Dummy-to-Celebrated-Brain-Surgeon-hRM6QZ.html From Dummy to Celebrated Brain Surgeon]]
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[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
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== How to Think Like an Ecosystem ==
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== The Man Who Planted A Forest ==
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Gradually its dawned on me: We humans are creatures of the mind. We perceive the world according to our core, often unacknowledged, assumptions. They determine, literally, what we can see and what we cannot. Nothing so wrong with that, perhapsexcept that, in this crucial do-or-die moment, were stuck with a mental map that is life-destroying.
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The year was 1979 in Assam, India. Floods had washed a great number of snakes onto a barren sandbar. When Jadav "Molai" Payeng -- then only 16 -- found them, they had all died. "The snakes died in the heat, without any tree cover. I sat down and wept over their lifeless forms." Then he dried his tears and asked forest officials if they could plant trees in that area. When they told him nothing would grow there Payeng quietly began to plant seeds anyway. Thirty years later the 1,360 acre forest he created on the land where "nothing would grow" is home to birds, deer, apes, elephants and even tigers.
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/How-to-Think-Like-an-Ecosystem-YZEJSQ.html How to Think Like an Ecosystem]]
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/The-Man-Who-Planted-A-Forest-wJZDji.html The Man Who Planted A Forest]]
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== Reuse of Wastewater May Improve Drinking Water Supply ==
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== Paths Are Made By Walking ==
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With recent advances in technology and design, treating municipal wastewater and reusing it for drinking water, irrigation, industry, and other applications could significantly increase the nations total available water resources, particularly in coastal areas facing water shortages, says a new report from the National Research Council.
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2012s Baccalaureate speaker at the University of Pennsylvania was an unconventional choice for an Ivy League school. To address their newly-minted graduates, aspiring to dazzling careers, they picked a man who has never in his adult life, applied for a job. A man who hasnt worked for pay in nearly a decade, and whose self-stated mission is simply "to bring smiles to the world and stillness to my heart".  
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/Reuse-of-Wastewater-May-Improve-Drinking-Water-Supply-SD47qe.html Reuse of Wastewater May Improve Drinking Water Supply]]
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/Paths-Are-Made-By-Walking-CMdEh4.html Paths Are Made By Walking]]
[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
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== 9 Steps to Achieving Flow (and Happiness) at Work ==
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== The Importance of Imagination ==
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[Flow means] being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. --Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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While growing up, Id never really considered how important it is to be imaginative. Its a childhood profession, you could say. It comes naturally. Then we hit an age when were presented with a scantron of bubble-in options, a template for a CV that we need to create, and Excel. At that point, our learning has to fit into certain parameters: within that little bubble, within the one page limit, and within a tiny digital graph. So, what happens to our imagination?It seems to fade.
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/9-Steps-to-Achieving-Flow-and-Happiness-at-Work-LFdIya.html 9 Steps to Achieving Flow (and Happiness) at Work]]
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/The-Importance-of-Imagination-BvyL3n.html The Importance of Imagination]]
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== Would Gandhi Use Social Media? ==
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== 5 Reasons Why Meditation Beats an iPhone ==
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If Gandhi were alive today, would he use social media? He was never anti-technology, or even anti-changing with the times. Quite the opposite, actually. If Internet technologies and social networks were around, he would certainly have embraced them -- but with a conscious mindfulness of their strengths and weaknesses.
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People buy iPhones to be universally connected and have a ton of cool functions and features at their fingertips. But as the wise monk Rev. Heng Sure once said, everything we create in silicon already exists in carbon. Id add that the silicon technology is a poor facsimile at best.  
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/Would-Gandhi-Use-Social-Media-J39i2S.html Would Gandhi Use Social Media?]]
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  [[http://goodvillenews.com/5-Reasons-Why-Meditation-Beats-an-iPhone-piD3rp.html 5 Reasons Why Meditation Beats an iPhone]]
[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]
[[http://goodvillenews.com/wk.html GoodvilleNews.com - good, positive news, inspirational stories, articles]]

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