I didn't know empathy is the ability to imagine yourself in someone else's position. It was also interesting to find out that the person who discovered that all mammals have emotions was Charles Darwin! (the guy who made me study for hours on evolution :D)I think it is cool that aphasics can detect liars more than 70% of the time.
2) What did you already know?
I knew facial expressions were universal! (especially smiles) Also that reading facial expressions has to do with right hemisphere.
http://academics.irfanessa.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/ietmlabels.jpg <- a cool picture!
3) Any new words? Provide definitions.
stymied: a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage
pollsters: a person whose occupation is the taking of public-opinion polls
inertia: sluggishness enliven: to make vigorous or active
guzzled: to drink, or sometimes eat, greedily, frequently, or plentifully
inkling: a slight suggestion or indication
attuning: to bring into accord, harmony, or sympathetic relationship
contending: to struggle in opposition
scaffolding: a scaffold or system of scaffolds
unpresidential: not pertaining to a president or presidency
languished: to be or become weak or feeble
fibbing: a small or trivial lie
subtleties: the state or quality of being subtle
conspicuous: easily seen or noticed prickle: a sharp point
anthrax: an infectious, often fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other mammals, caused by Bacillus anthracis
attunement: being or bringing into harmony
intonation: the pattern or melody of pitch changes in connected speech
inferring: to derive by reasoning
4) What changes will you make as a result of reading this?
I started carrying a notebook for designs, now I guess I should use it to make a metaphor log.
5) What questions has this left you with?
-Does Daniel Pink get paid for mentioning all these books, people, and companies? (wow...)
-If the only way babies can express their emotion is through face, does that mean babies develop right hemisphere before left?
-Is there anything else that is different in women and men other than empathy?
-If there is, what accounts for the difference? (chemicals? structures? hormone?)
6) What connections have you made to real life?
I was happy that what I do, going to one website and ending up on a totally different topic, is a good thing to do.
7) What is the word of the day?
discovery - I think (from reading this) people have to encounter different things. It does not always come to them, sometimes they have to take a step. We discovered new things, and finally flew! But, only to discover more.
8) Additional comments.
I don't see the negative space in the kisses thing.
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