Archive for April, 2007

Review: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Posted on April 25th, 2007 • Filed under Personality, Psychology • No Comments

Last week I had a chance to read Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, based on some recommendation that I read online (that now I can’t recall).

What I liked about the book:

It’s based on science. There’s actual research and science behind this book.
Fairly easy to read. With many examples from different areas and industries and people.

What I didn’t like about the book:

I’ve read/studied this subject matter before in my Personality class, so it wasn’t all new material.
It’s a little too redundant in some areas, but maybe that’s good for people who have never read on the subject.

Overall I would recommend this book to people that are not psychology majors. 4/5 Stars.

Robie Creek Results

Posted on April 23rd, 2007 • Filed under Running • No Comments

This was the a horrible run/walk. I was sick pretty much for the entire week and the previous week we did the same route, this made the run pretty difficult. Because I really wanted to participate in the race I didn’t drop it, and I’m glad that I didn’t. The crowd was great and the volunteers were awesome too. Next year I’d like to repeat it.

Running Robie Creek Half Marathon

Posted on April 20th, 2007 • Filed under Running • No Comments

Image credit: Dallen

Tomorrow is the Robie Creek Half Marathon. This is the toughest half marathon in the northwest. Last Saturday I mostly ran the entire length of it in aprx. 2:35. So my goal is to this time, maybe come in closer to the the 2 hour mark. The wear and tear on the body is painful, but now I know what to expect. I ran the 5 mile up/5 mile down for several Saturdays before that for practice.

Robie Creek, here we go. From what I hear, it’ll be a blast, around 2500 people are running it.

Joost Invites Available

Posted on April 19th, 2007 • Filed under Entertainment, TV • 24 Comments

I have two brand spanking new Joost invites available. If anybody is interested in these Joost invites (and there’s many) please leave a comment or email me directly with the reason why you must have a Joost invite. The top two entries (as decided by me) win.

Update: Everybody that has requested one has been sent one, if you need one, leave a comment.

Update2: If you still haven’t gotten yours, leave a comment, I have unlimited now.

Crowd Psychology/Personal Psychology

Posted on April 13th, 2007 • Filed under Psychology, Social Psychology • No Comments

Seth pointed out a story in the Washington Post that show different mass social psychology is from personal psychology.

Makes you wonder how you would act?

I would have walked passed too.

Psychology Field

Posted on April 9th, 2007 • Filed under Psychology • No Comments

Some quick numbers:

There are 41,868 books listed on Amazon with “psychology” in the title.
211 journal or periodicals are published regularly on the subject of psychology or related.
58,921 is the number of blogs with “psychology” in the title.