So, I had the pleasure of being a guinea pig for my Sensation and Perception Professor. Our class was given the option of course credit for strapping on an EEG and doing some tests to see if the color blue is tied in to the release and transmission of dopamine in the brain. This is influential because addicts do not have good levels of dopamine in their system. This could potentially be used as a means to discover if someone is hooked on drugs or suffers from any type of addiction. Neuroscience is so cool!!
I have heard this quote expressed in different ways from different people and it's by time I posted it and share the wealth.
"If we let our happiness rest on the actions and moods of others, we will always be disappointed. If our happiness is dependent on perfect situations, it will always be a future dream forever out of reach."
Merriam Webster defines happiness as:
1obsolete: good fortune : prosperity
2 a: a state of well-being and contentment : joy b: a pleasurable or satisfying experience
3: felicity, aptness
The significant point in this concept and definition is that these points of view are largely, more accurately - wholly, comprised on our perspective, our paradigm, our mental construct. Ultimately our expression of discontent or contentedness in the course of life is a demonstration of what type of character we choose to employ and consequently become.
Seems like the great ones agree with me:
Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. - Louisa May Alcott
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. - Horace
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials. - Danish Proverb
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. - Proverb
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
- Pietro Aretino
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. - J. Petit Senn
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character. - Joseph Le Conte
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. - Henry David Thoreau
Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life.
- John C. Geikie
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. - J. B. Gough
Character is, for the most part,simply habit become fixed. - C. H. Parkhurst
This quote encapsulates everything I believe, strive, and hope to be:
"Whatever comes our way... Whatever battle we have raging inside us... We always have a choice. It's the choices that make us who we are. And we can always choose to do what's right. We can choose the best of ourselves. "
So, I had the pleasure of being a guinea pig for my Sensation and Perception Professor. Our class was given the option of course credit for strapping on an EEG and doing some tests to see if the color blue is tied in to the release and transmission of dopamine in the brain. This is influential because addicts do not have good levels of dopamine in their system. This could potentially be used as a means to discover if someone is hooked on drugs or suffers from any type of addiction. Neuroscience is so cool!!
