According to a new study, people who outperform others on any competitive task acts more assertively against those whom they beat or who just remained behind them. On the contrary, the losers never show such attitude against the winners.

The study says that people generally have this tendency to look down upon them who they could defeat. But losers normally act normal against the ones who defeated them.

The study, as per researchers, was done to check whom amongst two people, one who wins and one who loses, will act aggressively. Though, any of the two could show aggression, however, it was doubted that losers might be more furious against the winner as they have lost the task.

On the contrary, the research shows that people who become champions are more on aggression, as they feel authoritative by their victory.

The study was conducted on three students by means of two simple competitive tasks where students had to outdo their concealed partner. The result showed that students were more hostile when they did better than their partner who did worse.

The research was done in two different countries in three different studies and every time is suggested that in reality there is something about winning as those who win are tend to become more aggressive.

Steven Schlozman, a veteran writer with a writing skill that can pull anybody to the world of the story unfolded in the book from the real world, is this time bringing out another great book, namely, “Consumerism consumes us all”. A story about his childhood days, about those days when he used to go for summer camping and meet various friends and about the differences in thoughts and feelings between him and his friends; this would be a worth-reading book that again can carry you away to the days of his summer camps. The book says how the author found the name of this book and what the first impacts that were being created by these words.

Published just very recently, on 8^th January of this year, Schlozman have put his very best experiences of his childhood that can attract anybody to go on reading and turning the pages one after another. The writer, currently engaged as the M.D. in Grand Rounds puts light on some of his friends in this book amongst whom Willy was one notable person. He and Willy met each other when they were in Bemidji of Minnesota for a summer camp. The camp of which these two kids, Steven and Willy were members was named as the Camp Thunderbird for Boys and the year spoken about was 1977 when the author was only 11 years old.

The sentence “Consumerism consumes us all” was noticed by them only then when they were boating in the Little Fork River in Northern Minnesota and it was written in white on an old concrete bridge. Though at that moment it was too tough a sentence for them to understand Steven remembered it well. And undoubtedly, these words today are more than being mere words and have lots to tell to and about mankind.

There are a number of instances when we just say ‘hi’ to people but then think who that was? There are many of us who just remember the face of the person but cannot recall the name. Don’t worry, it is not a disorder. Researchers say that there is something atypical about a name that makes it fiddly to evoke.

In a survey a number of people were given false names and memoirs to study and then were analyzed as to what they could recall. Here are the figures in percentage which they could remember. Jobs: 69%, Hobbies: 68%, Home towns: 62%, First names: 31% and Last names: 30%. So, you can see that the names get the least percentages. And with aging the process of remembering names even get worst. There are many theories and sciences that have been carried out. One result that came out is the common names.

Many of us have common names and those clashes in our memory and hence we aren’t able to recall the name. But oppositely there are some research studies which say that common names are easy to remember than the ones with atypical names. Many of us have names describing our own personality or nature or anything related to us. It is easy for us to remember these kinds of names. And hence one hoax to recall anybody’s name is to remember it by making some kind of alliance with that person’s behavior.

And after all these strive and struggle to remember the names still you forget somebody’s name that just recall Shakespeare’s well known saying:

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Compassion is one thing that can be observed in a person through his or her body language. In other words, you need not necessarily speak or use words to express your compassion for a thing, you can express it using your gestures and body language. A more open body language, strong eye contact, smiling and head nods are all gestures that suggest compassion in a speaker or listener.

In order to access compassion, one can listen with the whole body meaning one can observe the approach signals, body gestures like position of arms, legs and head. Even avoiding or maintaining an eye contact with the speaker will give a clear idea of your compassion for a particular subject. Even touch is powerful gesture that can be used to judge compassion in a human being.

To conclude, we can say that, three things, namely, a strong body language, eye contact and approach to listening can be used to check a person’s compassion in a human being.

It is completely in our hand to inculcate a positive or negative attitude. Strangely, no one else but we only can control our attitude and be either good or bad to others. Now, let us talk about how our attitude is generated. So, just as we eat what our body requires, similarly, our mind eats the thoughts we urge most for. In other words, if our body is tired, our attitude will be of a tired person who will be irritated.

It is very important to keep our attitude on the right track. For this, you need to make a plan and read it several times a day so as to adapt that particular attitude. Make sure to start immediately on the plan you chart out so as to bring that attitude in your nature without any delay.

No matter how ugly you look, you will feel bad only if you will believe it. On the contrary if you will feel that you are better than others, you will be filled with a superb confidence and strength that will never make you feel down in life. Moreover, the world too will respect you if you will respect yourself.

Try to be contented with how you look and when you achieve this contentment, you will feel blessed and look others as fools. You also need to build momentum by learning to look on your brighter side to feel healthy and happy with the course of time. To help you feel good about yourself, yoga is surest way that is easy to perform and full of benefits.

The first sign of depression in pregnant ladies is seen in terms of lack of concentration. They are hardly able to concentrate on things that they loved before getting pregnant. Moreover, these ladies are found to be full of anxiety about a lot of things starting from the pregnancy symptoms to the labor pain.

The first tip to overcome pregnancy blues is to stay calm and relax as much as you can. Practicing yoga is considered highly beneficial in pregnancy, as it soothes you. Listening to soothing music is also a good alternative to stay calm and away from unnecessary stress during pregnancy.

Pregnant ladies must also stay away from stressful life events as much as possible in order to enjoy a smooth pregnancy and child birth. Avoid being lonely during pregnancy, as it will inculcate negative thoughts in you.

There are many factors depending on which two people like or dislike each other that forms the basis of human compatibility. Culture plays an important role in bringing two people close and to make them compatible. Then, there is the role of social and economic background that can bridge the gap between two people.

Apart from these, there is an educational background or career objective that can bring two people close and make them compatible. It is in human tendency to get attention and for this physical attraction also helps a lot. If a person is smart and jolly by nature, then too he or she will be found very compatible with others.

On the other hand, people are not compatible due to ego issues, rivalry and competition. When two people are rivals or are in the same business, they often tend to be incompatible due to same interests. Overall, it is love that plays the most important role in human compatibility.

It is said that money can buy everything, but it is strange to see that money can’t buy us happiness. Money can get us the most expensive gifts, or anything that we want to have for ourselves, but happiness is something that can’t be bought; it is priceless. Even studies prove that people belonging to the most affluent and sophisticated societies are rather satisfied than happy.

The rich are always surrounded by workload, controversies, jealousy, etc. In fact, they live their life with the urge to have more money and spend most of their time thinking about it. The tendency to gain more power, and money and to become richer than your colleagues, friends or relatives is always there.

It is quite evident that when we become used to a certain kind of lifestyle, like branded clothes, eating at luxurious joints, lavish shopping, costly gifts etc., it becomes difficult for us to enjoy in a simple style of living. Moreover, money also makes us think in a comparative manner and we start comparing everything in terms of money.

There are many more such things that somehow limit the joys of life when you have too much of wealth. If you look in your surrounding, you will find many people who lack the basic requirements in life that we enjoy so very much. But still, they can be the most happiest of people because they find happiness in the most minutest of things in life.

So, what would you do to make sure you don’t end up in a quarrel? Well, here are a few tips that will help you avoid such situations. The first step is to control your vocabulary and not use certain words/terms like- do whatever you want, I don’t care, whatever, I hate you, you’re not listening and so on.

In any disagreement which generally turns into an argument, one has to be very careful not to yell. Yelling is one thing that could aggravate a normal situation. Keeping your cool is the key to avoid arguments.

Another thing that you should keep in mind is to not use abusive language. Using abusive language reflects very badly on you and also gives a bad impression on your upbringing and education.

It’s natural to disagree and it’s a good thing to stand for what you believe in but you have to be mature and never let it grow into a quarrel.