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Robin Marantz Henig
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Any Down Life People You Young
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handful of very good friends who know me well and like me anyway. Robin Marantz Henig
Good Me Relatives Husband Few Good Friends Spend Some Like Know Well Handful Friends Very Close Anyway Happiest Who Moments
The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation, prevarication, exaggeration, denial. Robin Marantz Henig
Exaggeration Words Denial Language Shade Collusion Count Self-Deception According Different Deception Meaning English English Language Each
I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for. Robin Marantz Henig
Me History Youth Generation Made Young Ways Uncomfortable Self-Absorbed Studies Most Narcissistic Always Being Little Meant Many Assert Millennials
Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits. Robin Marantz Henig
Time Fear Parents Lost Spent More Pursuits Between Practical Yearning Children Play Playing
If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general. Robin Marantz Henig
Life You Satisfied General Tend According Psychologists Social Your Social Life
I regret not working harder to create true friendships with other couples, not seeking out people with whom to go do things and go places - people with whom to have a few crazy, memorable bonding adventures. Robin Marantz Henig
Crazy People Regret Few Other Out Memorable Seeking True Adventures Couples Go Friendships Places Create Working Whom Harder Things Bonding
It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. Robin Marantz Henig
Invent Young Seems Rite Generational Almost Stereotypes Passage Dumping Middle-Aged
In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities. Robin Marantz Henig
Work Alone World Benefits Adaptive Introspection Temperament Qualities Does Caution Offer Anxious Modern Modern World Capacity Certain
In the womb, humans are free of microbes. Colonization begins during the journey down the birth canal, which is riddled with bacteria, some of which make their way onto the newborn's skin. Robin Marantz Henig
Journey Free Skin Down Birth Way Bacteria Some Colonization Onto Make Womb Begins Canal Newborn Which Riddled Humans
Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace. Robin Marantz Henig
Maturity Kids Individual Adulthood Road Toward Highly Along Uneven Pace Unison Shuffle
As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used. Robin Marantz Henig
One Thing Does How Occur Brain Pruning Any Pathway Depends Happens Used Largely Thing
The limbic system explodes during puberty, but the prefrontal cortex keeps maturing for another 10 years. Robin Marantz Henig
System Another Years Maturing Puberty Keeps
I'm a freelance writer, and I work alone at a big desk in the living room of my apartment. There are many days when I don't utter a single word to anyone but my husband. Robin Marantz Henig
Work Alone Word Husband Freelance Single Big Living Writer Days Single Word Anyone Apartment Room Many Utter Living Room Desk
Elderly parents tend to think their relationship with their middle-aged children is smoother than the children do. Adult grandchildren, who have little stake in pulling away from their grandparents, tend to describe that relationship as less rose-colored than do Gram and Gramps. Robin Marantz Henig
Relationship Parents Think Tend Adult Smoother Than Children Middle-Aged Grandchildren Little Stake Elderly Grandparents Less Who Describe Away Pulling
Regret is a bitter emotion, so painful that the urge to avoid it often drives decision-making strategies. Robin Marantz Henig
Regret Bitter Emotion Drives Often Decision-Making Urge Painful Avoid Strategies
The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been. Robin Marantz Henig
You Better Every Those Would Outcomes Easy About Could Had Missed How Passed How Much Been Up Any Different Fantasize Much Chance Number
To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life. Robin Marantz Henig
Life Me People Own Way See Always End Up Maybe Interesting Regrets Regretting Your Avoid
Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe. Robin Marantz Henig
People Matter Some People Healthy Other Dreaded Some Born Mentally Dropping Robust Always How Brains Anticipating Stock Forever Shoe Just Doom Children Preparing Portfolio
There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle. Robin Marantz Henig
You Natural Back Din Dreadful About Absolutely Head Headphones Makes Still Pillows Very Being Flat Which Little Barely Your
Hardships of early human life favored the evolution of certain cognitive tools, among them the ability to infer the presence of organisms that might do harm, to come up with causal narratives for natural events and to recognize that other people have minds of their own with their own beliefs, desires and intentions. Robin Marantz Henig
Life Natural People Events Hardships Own Other Tools Minds Favored Recognize Evolution Ability Come Narratives Causal Up Infer Human Intentions Them Might Certain Organisms Human Life Beliefs Among Presence Cognitive Early Desires Harm
The human brain has evolved the capacity to impose a narrative, complete with chronology and cause-and-effect logic, on whatever it encounters, no matter how apparently random. Robin Marantz Henig
Matter Chronology Random Whatever Complete Evolved Logic Narrative How Impose Brain Encounters Human Human Brain Capacity Apparently
Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury. Robin Marantz Henig
Work Luxury Animals Chubby Way Alike Kids Restless Something More Steam Developing Study Calories Scientists Off Than Frivolous Burn View Who Play Humans Consensus
For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill. Robin Marantz Henig
Animals Alike Something Spontaneous Truly Vigorous Play Biological Humans
The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered. Robin Marantz Henig
Fluid Scattered Essence Sequence Actions Play
Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough. Robin Marantz Henig
Too Much Down Biology Sets Too Enough Critical Obesity Eats Exercises Context Still Person Whether Much Boils
Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do. Robin Marantz Henig
Struggle Down Our Slim Sabotage Getting Us Bodies Many Keep Fat
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