Mind Essays

I remember my first job (internship) interview. I was young and very stressed. It was stressful for me because I really wanted this internship in this fashion firm. However, it is normal things to be stressed when it is your first important job interview. I went to the company, did …

In his composition, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, Nicholas Carr discusses how our minds and attention spans are being altered by our frequent use of the internet. Carr explains that because reading from a screen is vastly different from reading a paper source, it is changing our brains by “chipping …

Have you ever heard a saying like the secret of success: stop wishing, start doing? It is obvious that, being successful is an essential goal of most of us. Success is sometimes achievement of our desired visions and sometimes it describes our planned goals. As we are unique from any …

Ever since I was a child I had always been told by my father that people don’t really change, and that in essence it is just the little things that change about them. He says that what you are born with is what you got and that determines the ‘you’ …

When we hear stories of famous theorists conjuring theories from thin air, or impressive intellects memorizing hundreds of pages, we cannot help but sit in awe. It may be discouraging to see how much these fathers/mothers of history gave to society; however, their success was not simply inherited at birth. …

A growth mindset is a mindset where someone realizes that they can grow and develop in a certain skill through effort and focus where as in a fixed mindset, someone believes that their level of skill is pre-determined and that they can’t change that through effort and hard work. A …

Is evolutionary in today’s world. His study and discovery of lie detection is key to helping solve issues in the media, government, and other criminal cases. Paul Ekman should be the top candidate considered for “Psychologist of the Year” because of how his unprecedented work and research helps change people’s …

The mind is an unknown space, an entity which has not been seen, a soul that has not been measured, yet it can manage a to steer a material object that is the body, a vessel if you will, as it moves and develops across this earth. I will examine …

While he may best be remembered for his classic autobiography Confessions, St. Augustine was also the author of The Problem of Free Choice, which raises many questions and provides answers for a plethora of questions regarding human life and the ability to think. He titles one of the sections of …

Macbeth’s state of mind changes drastically throughout the play, this is shown most evidently through the soliloquys. There are references to world order in each of the soliloquys I will be exploring, which reinforces the character of Macbeth and the way in which an audience sees him. In Act I …