Rosa Parks The Meaning of Life - "The First Lady of Civil Rights"

Rosa Parks

The Meaning of Life

  "The First Lady of Civil Rights"

Rosa Parks in 1955, the year of her arrest, 

with  Martin Luther King, Jr. in the background

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65-year-old Parks writes:

"I was born in the South, fifty years after slavery, when 

racial segregation was legally enforced. I listened to my 

grandparents talk of their lives as slave children and was 

aware of the Ku Klux Klan’s activities in our community 

after World War I. Racial pride and self-dignity were 

emphasized in my family and community ..."

Read more at Brain Pickings -

• https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/04/rosa-parks-meaning-of-life/

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"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

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Lou Holtz

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The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight - Guest Submission - #Neuroscience

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Insight

Abstract

By John Kounios and Mark Beeman

Insight occurs when a person suddenly reinterprets a stimulus, situation, or event to produce a nonobvious, nondominant interpretation. This can take the form of a solution to a problem (an “aha moment”), comprehension of a joke or metaphor, or recognition of an ambiguous percept. Insight research began a century ago, but neuroimaging and electrophysiological techniques have been applied to its study only during the past decade. 

Recent work has revealed insight-related coarse semantic coding in the right hemisphere and internally focused attention preceding and during problem solving. Individual differences in the tendency to solve problems insightfully rather than in a deliberate, analytic fashion are associated with different patterns of resting-state brain activity. Recent studies have begun to apply direct brain stimulation to facilitate insight. 

In sum, the cognitive neuroscience of insight is an exciting new area of research with connections to fundamental neurocognitive processes.

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Further Inquiries

 Contact Authors

John Kounios 1 and Mark Beeman 2

1 Department of Psychology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102; email: john.kounios@gmail.com

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https://twitter.com/JohnKounios/status/685608300835127296

2 Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208; email: mjungbee@northwestern.edu

http://www.psychology.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/core/profiles/mark-beeman.html

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"Strength" - Inspired, Heartfelt Guest's Poem

Strength

By Jennifer Hansford

You’re so strong, otherwise you wouldn’t be here, he said to me one day.

I know those words keep me standing tall, when nothing is going my way.

STRONG runs in my family, and I will make sure it carries on.

Because sometimes strength is all I have when everything else is gone.

The years pass by, but these words will remain in the front of my mind.

I think back to the day these words were spoken, when solace was hard to find.

These words melt away my heartache, and all my fears seem to disappear.

Forever there to remind myself, I’m so strong, otherwise I wouldn’t be here.

@HansfordJen 

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"Winning begins with belief, attitude and effort. After that, the rest is up to YOU!"

T McNeil

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Confucius 

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."

Buddha

"Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference."

Lou Holtz

"It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk - cannot win."

John Paul Jones

The Dream:  Do What is Hard, Everyday, Inch by Inch... 

@TOCreativeWrite

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Winning: Action Attitudes Constructively Applied

Winning:ActionAttitudesConstructivelyApplied

"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure".

Mark Twain

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

Vince Lombardi

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

Winston Churchill

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"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing." -  Denis Waitley

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is - Jimmy Carter

Do one thing every day that scares you. - Eleanor Roosevelt

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.  - Aristotle

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.  - T. S. Eliot

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The Woman in the Arena

The Woman in the 

Arena

(What Roosevelt should have said.)

"It is not the critic who counts; not the woman who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. 

The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly...

... so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

T. McNeil

Toronto, 2015

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What I Need Her to Have - Member's Musing

What I Need Her to Have

Glamour, it may be, is an ancient mystical word for fairie magic.

Bigger than my fairie’s body are her wings, which are dragonfly-type due to maternal ancestry or genetic mutation, she can’t remember.

Glamour in this original sense refers not to the person, nor even to her broad filmy wings, but to the sunlight which shines through the film at dawn on misty days.

Such light is changed, passing through fairie wing-film.  The colour and shimmer and rays are not their old selves, but become as flashes -- green, red, gold -- inside a bright kalaidoscope.

Reubin Apple

Toronto, 2016

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