Interesting Links for 18-08-2014

[andrewducker]

• It doesn't matter if a drug works - if it's not patented then it's not going to reach the USA
  (tags: Russia intellectual_property drugs USA )
• The first scientist in over 40 years to test LSD on humans
  (tags: lsd research psychedelics )
• Wombling Free - (On leaving your surroundings in a better state than when you found them)
  (tags: society people )

Comments

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I really liked it. I want a partner that supports me positively, not one who wears me down.

Reminds me of something I remember Scott Adams said about speaker training. The person that trained him in how to carry out public speaking _never_ gave negative feedback, they only ever praised the bits that were good.

And oddly, by the end of a two-week course he was extremely confident, and was using only those bits that had been repeatedly praised :->

[philmophlegm]

That's an interesting approach - but - how many presenting skills courses last two weeks? I'm lucky if I get two hours to run a presenting skills course. If you've got plenty of time on a course, and a good teacher-to-pupil ratio, you can do things like show participants videos of themselves speaking. When you do that, they tend to identify their weaknesses anyway

[andrewducker]

That sounds absolutely fascinating, and very-much worthwhile.

Oh, and focussed entirely, I'd note, on finding the positive and accentuating it!

[andrewducker]

True.

Our ccunsellor said very nice things about us (as a couple) the other day. I forget that we do things that other people don't necessarily do.