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Children born today with a diminutive level of worry--those whose emotional physiology underreacts to stress, novelty, and threat--grow up to become criminals much more often than average. Criminality has long been known to be partially heritable, and a worry volume set to "low" in the reptilian brain is part of the mechanism.
--Lewis, Amini and Lannon in A General Theory of Love p49

What interests me in their assessment of the value of risk aversion and its opposite as mentioned above, is that these physicians note no value in being a risk taker, only increased criminality. They mention that "Many of our ultralow-anxiety ancestors were bitten by snakes, gored by tusks, and fell out of trees. Those premature deaths shifted the gene pool toward higher trepidation." By my own observation, people who are less risk averse are more likely to be found in sports such as whitewater kayaking, backcountry skiing and paragliding. This is where I've found several of my dearest friends, and they are not, by and large, criminals. Also, Dr Thom continues to tell us that entrepreneurs are risk takers, much different from the rest of the population. The statistics show us that most entrepreneurs are male, which begs the question, are men more likely to be risk takers? I think so. And I don't think that this disposition is any guarantee of criminality, though it certainly does increase the odds that rules and laws will be taken with a grain of potassium. Another question: if it is so, then why are males less risk averse? I think evolution offers answers to that one also.
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Love is your response to your values in another person.
--Ayn Rand

"In Ayn Rand’s final public talk, she exhorts a group of businessmen to stop apologizing, and stop supporting anti-capitalist institutions: 'It is a moral crime to give money to support ideas with which you disagree. It is a moral crime to give money to support your own destroyers.' See how the force of her ideas captivated an audience and drew a tumultuous response."

http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reg_ar_sanction

The best way to help the poor is not to be one of them.
--Reverend Ike
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According to the World Economic Forum, that is. The US held second until last month, now Sweden and Singapore have passed the US. Switzerland just passed the US to take the #1 spot last year. China's moving up and has reached #27. Germany's also climbing the scale, now in the #5 spot. Japan's #6. Finland is #7 and Denmark is #9 putting Scandinavia as a whole in the top 10. Netherlands is #8 and Canada is #10. At the moment. Things are definitely shifting.

The rating is based on 12 variables: institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, health and primary education, higher education and training, goods market efficiency, labour market efficiency, financial market development, technological readiness, market size, business sophistication, and innovation.

SOURCE
http://www.weforum.org/en/media/Latest%20News%20Releases/NR_GCR10
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Resiliency is a trait all leaders share
The ability to respond effectively in times of upheaval requires honesty, courage.
By Dr. William Sparks in Charlotte Observer | Sunday, Mar. 14, 2010
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/03/14/1309784/resiliency-is-a-trait-all-leaders.html
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Great article here with a list of ideas for making cash. Written by a pragmatist, obviously.
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These notes from an NPR story (8 minutes long) on how we ended up with a system in which most people get their health insurance from employers. It turns out, it wasn't planned, it was the outcome of a series of historical accidents, and also the result of business influences on the tax laws of the land.
notes )
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There's fear and consternation on the conservative side that this bill, introduced by Rockefeller, will give Obama the power to shut down the internet. On the other hand, the goal of the bill is to address security threats and provide all US internet users with a higher level of security for our data. So the question is, are there national borders in the internet, and do we want our country to protect them for us?
links as food for thought )

QotD

Jun. 16th, 2009 11:39 am
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No matter how cynical you get, it's almost impossible to keep up.
--Lily Tomlin
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very good speaker
long pauses
His story: paramedic, wife with Lyme, knows and understands naturopathy
blogging for Huffington post in business section
spiritual foundation
When you do what you love it flows
wants us to let go of badness association with money
how do you connect with people who need you
notes from today's short lecture on marketing )
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Many thanks to [livejournal.com profile] 1bigguy for posting this one. I'm getting better all the time at letting things slide. Tyler's Rules of Innovation )
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I just signed up for an email newsletter from Remarkable Communication, by Sonia Simone. Looks interesting. About business and communication.
http://www.remarkable-communication.com/
http://www.remarkable-communication.com/50-things-your-customers-wish-you-knew/

Online Business School — Why We’re Broke and How To Fix It
http://ittybiz.com/online-business-school/?ev=6b86593dd4
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-stone/is-it-time-to-retire-the_b_106624.html
By Linda Stone | Posted June 11, 2008
Nice article on the choice and execution of your life's content.
Time for me to turn off this computer for a while.
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A recent article on MSN says that after illegal drugs, raw milk may be the most briskly traded underground commodity in America. Have you tried it? I don't drink milk of any kind (not "soy milk" or cow or almond either) so it isn't really a big issue for me. But I am convinced that if you are going to consume anything called "milk", and you don't have the option of human milk, your best bet is fresh, raw, unpasteurized milk just as it comes from the cow.

http://www.realmilk.com/why.html
One place to search for sources:
http://www.localharvest.org/

Haircut

Mar. 27th, 2009 04:04 pm
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Got a haircut for free today. I asked Suz to cut it, and she wouldn't. She has always refused out of fear that she will do it wrong. Then I asked Boots, downstairs, to cut it. She was scared too, and refused. So I went walking down the street, with a fiver in one hand and scissors and a brush in the other. I was hoping to bump into a Mom, someone for whom cutting hair is no big deal. A skinny trimet uniformed guy on a bike stopped rolling when I waved, but then said he couldn't cut my hair for me, and acted like he thought I might be nuts, maybe dangerous. Finally I asked a guy with a couple of dogs at the elementary school. He asked what it means to cut my hair, and I said take a couple inches off the end in a reasonably straight line. He said sure, no problem. I offered him the fiver, he said he didn't want it. I offered to hold the leash while he cut it, and he said sure. His name is Mike. Thanks Mike. Somebody in Portland is not afraid. And my hair is just FINE.

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