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Worries Typically Follow Such Lines, A Narrative To Oneself That Jumps From Concern To Concern And More Often Than Not Includes Catastrophizing, Imagining Some Terrible Tragedy. Worries Are Almost Always Expressed In The Mind's Ear, Not Its Eye - That Is, In Words, Not Images - A Fact That Has Significance For Controlling Worry.

Attention Is A Little-noticed And Underrated Mental Asset.

People Tend To Become More Emotionally Intelligent As They Age And Mature.

For The High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge Of Flow 40 Percent Of The Hours They Spent At It. But For Low Achievers, Studying Produced Flow Only 16 Percent Of The Time; More Often That Not, It Yielded Anxiety, With The Demands Outreaching Their Abilities...the Low Achievers Found Pleasure And Flow In Socializing, Not In Studying.

When The Eyes Of A Woman That A Man Finds Attractive Look Directly At Him, His Brain Secretes The Pleasure-inducing Chemical Dopamine - But Not When She Looks Elsewhere.