Connections, Expectations and Surprises: Lab-Rat Wrap Up Part 2

Alex bids a fond farewell to the inaugural group of Lab-Rats and gets some feedback from the participants.

December 17, 2008 · Filed Under The Lab-Rats · 6 Comments 

Are you a Pooh-Bear?

More on extremes this week. Sometimes we’re too optimistic and try to believe the best will happen even when everything is pointing to giving up and trying something new. Sometimes we give up too soon. In the book Sway, the authors talk about loss aversion – pursuing a course of action long after the chances [...]

August 27, 2008 · Filed Under The Lab-Rats · 21 Comments 

Patience is a Virtue - Full Text Answers

As promised yesterday, here are the complete answers by the Lab-Rats for this week’s exercise. I’ve not done any formatting changes, so that you can see the style of answering as well as the answers themselves (after all, to be cliché, the medium is the message).
The Exercise
When pursuing happiness, whether it’s right at the start [...]

August 21, 2008 · Filed Under The Lab-Rats · 17 Comments 

Patience is a Virtue… and a Curse

When pursuing happiness, whether it’s right at the start of your journey, or near the end, patience is tricky attitude to maintain. Too little patience and we miss important steps along the way, or mess up completely because we’ve gone too far too quickly. Too much patience however and we slide into procrastination, not actively [...]

August 20, 2008 · Filed Under The Lab-Rats · 38 Comments 

Introducing the Lab-Rats

Lab-rats! I have lab-rats! I get to perform evil experiments on them and set them running through impossible mazes while I stand over rubbing my hands in glee. Oh no wait, that’s one of my ate-too-late-at-night dreams… where I’m the lab-rat.
Before launching the new version of the blog, I put out a call for volunteers [...]

August 13, 2008 · Filed Under The Lab-Rats · 46 Comments 

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