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Over the course of his professional lifetime, the B&B Blogger has had occasion to observe and evaluate (and sometimes coach) perhaps as many as 200 trainers or teachers .  Often an evaluation of the programs themselves was involved.  While his focus was never on the trainees per se, the Blogger certainly had ample opportunity to draw the following conclusions about them: Trainees often seem to derive substantial gratification from the opportunity to "share" their opinions with others - even when those opinions are:  1) virtual repetitions of opinions that other trainees had shared only...

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Do commercially available brain games make you smarter?  If you think so, you'd probably believe the B&B Blogger if he told you that he's 6' 4," totally ripped and often mistaken for Brad Pitt. Actually, the hard evidence seems to indicate that playing brain games at least makes you "better."   At playing those particular brain games.  Same thing as with playing video games. That's not to slam video gamers.  For some years, the Army has been actively recruiting master-level, shooting-and-killing-game experts.  Their peripheral vision has been shown to be improved as a result of play...

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A previous B&B Blog entry dealt with glucose and overall performance effectiveness at work.  The entry you're reading now narrows the focus to the relationship between glucose/glucose depletion and decision making while expanding the scope of concern to our society as a whole. Let's start by featuring that tomorrow just isn't any old day.  It's the day you appear before your Parole Board!  And, you get to decide:  Do you want your case to be heard first or last? Now, if you choose "last," you and your attorney might be able to get a feel for the board's quirks and what kinds or arguments...

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Hey, Mr. Shortcakes.  Embarrassed that you have to tilt your head back to talk to the women in your office?  Yeah?  Well, then, the B&B Blogger has great news for you! A study reported yesterday in Scientific American (online) has found that men who are brandishing a handgun appear to be bigger and stronger than they are.   Of course, in the non-handgun stimulus control group, each man wore a tiara, a tutu and ballet slippers and was standing next to a six-foot-three, 180 lb. female body builder.       Just kidding. Seriously, now.  Guys with handguns were consistently perceived...

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Ever wonder why bartenders don't put out little bowls of melon balls for you to nibble on?  It's because you'd DRINK less!!!!!  That's why only super-salty, high-in-fat snacks are served.  They're hard to stop eating and, of course, they make you thirsty faster and more effectively than practically anything else you could ingest that doesn't say "This is NOT a food product.  Do NOT eat" on the package. Okay.  So, you eat salty snacks and you drink more alcohol.  The more alcohol you drink, the more animated you become.  The more animated you are, the likelier you are to have (hilarious!)...

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