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Lorie Farrell 💙

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Hunting, gathering and sharing useful, intriguing or simply life enhancing nuggets for leaders

Joined February 2009
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Rubber ducks are everywhere - it's the UK's strangest new trend

Rubber ducks are everywhere - it's the UK's strangest new trend

Have you been handed a rubber duck by a stranger? Inside the UK's weirdest new trend helping strangers connect

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Call for NHS to give women with dense breasts extra cancer scans

Call for NHS to give women with dense breasts extra cancer scans

Additional scans better tailored to spotting cancer in dense breasts could treble detection rates.

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"I was determined to create a solution that is free and instantly accessible." #ShapingAIForEveryone cam.ac.uk/stories/AI-VR-elim… via @cambridge_uni

Free tech eliminates the fear of public speaking

"I was determined to create a solution that is free and instantly accessible." #ShapingAIForEveryone

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How Brain Activity Can Reveal What Makes You Thrive

How Brain Activity Can Reveal What Makes You Thrive

Researchers found that you need six peak experiences per day for long-term thriving—and with new technologies, you can easily monitor yours.

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How online photos and videos alter the way you think bbc.com/future/article/20241… via @BBC_Future
How online photos and videos alter the way you think

How online photos and videos alter the way you think

The images we are exposed to on social media and internet websites have a surprising influence on the way we view the world.

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Frontiers | Explicit and Implicit Basic Human Motives, and Public Service Motivation

Frontiers | Explicit and Implicit Basic Human Motives, and Public Service Motivation

This article contributes to the literature on the roots of Public Service Motivation (PSM) by turning to the psychological theory of basic human motives. The...

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Systems Practice Toolkit - NPC

Systems Practice Toolkit - NPC

Understand the nature of the problem you're facing, design effective solutions, act and work systemically, and learn as you go.

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Perceiving Others Through a Screen: Are First Impressions of Personality Accurate and Normative via Videoconferencing? - Marie-Catherine Mignault, Hasagani Tissera, Jamie Cecere, Zoe Fargnoli-Brown, Lauren Human, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Perceiving Others Through a Screen: Are First Impressions of Personality Accurate and Normative via...

Perceiving Others Through a Screen: Are First Impressions of Personality Accurate and Normative via...

The use of videoconferencing platforms has globally risen to facilitate face-to-face communication since the onset of COVID-19. But how do our first impressions...

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Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Dr. Seuss’s wonderfully wise Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is the perfect gift to celebrate all of our special milestones—from graduations to birthdays and beyond!

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Empathy: the skill to understand others and the ability to create space for someone to reveal their authentic self while reserving judgement cam.ac.uk/research/news/one-…

One term of empathy training measurably improved classroom behaviour

An analysis of a short programme teaching empathy in schools has found it had a positive impact on students’ behaviour and increased their emotional literacy within 10 weeks. The findings come from...

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Important. Please share. #mentalhealth
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@BBCNews27 Aug 2024
NHS 111 offers new mental health service bbc.in/4dEO3cz
NHS 111 offers new mental health service

NHS 111 offers new mental health service

People in crisis can now access urgent help in England by calling 111 and talking to trained staff.

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mind over matter? linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
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Evidence of the benefits of even very short investments in writing out your thoughts #LeadershipMatters #emotionalequilibrium @dorothysuskind psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/…
How Writing Heals the Soul

How Writing Heals the Soul

Writing about a stressful or traumatic event for just fifteen minutes a day offers remarkable health benefits.

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! Important for all of us. Evidence of a widespread bias that more capable women are less warm (they arent) and suggestions to counter it. #LeadershipMatters greatergood.berkeley.edu/art…
The “Nice Bias” That Middle-Aged Women Face at Work

The “Nice Bias” That Middle-Aged Women Face at Work

Even as they achieve more on the job, middle-aged women can be held back by a perceived lack of “niceness,” new research finds.

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Sunday thought. The most mature people can have the most fun. @DylanoA4 #leaders
Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4) profile pictureDylan O'Sullivan
@DylanoA427 Jul 2024
Famed psychologist Abraham Maslow
Image from Dylan O'Sullivan (@DylanoA4)
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Mixed emotions may not be mixed after all | BPS

Mixed emotions may not be mixed after all | BPS

Recent work finds mixed emotions have distinct neural signatures.

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Dopamine, explained

Dopamine, explained

Dopamine detoxing, hacking, and fasting: Is any of it real?

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Metaphor
Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) profile pictureMassimo
@Rainmaker19737 May 2024
Momentum cancellation. A ball fired at 50 mph out of a cannon from a truck going exactly at 50 mph in the opposite direction, has its velocity (and therefore momentum) cancelled. [📹 MythBusters]
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Important. I think this is worth your time to read
Geoff Mulgan (@geoffmulgan) profile pictureGeoff Mulgan@geoffmulgan23 Mar 2024
An essay on truth, the case for a right to truth and penalties for large-scale lying. All comments, additions and suggested improvements welcome. geoffmulgan.com/post/the-cas…
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The outdated concept that’s biasing managers against remote work

The outdated concept that’s biasing managers against remote work

With no management training to assess the performance of remote staff, managers adopted an “out of sight, out of mind” attitude and underestimated their productivity.

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