Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard After Our 20s

In most people, personality traits change more during young adulthood than any other period of life, including adolescence. Openness typically increases during a person’s 20s and goes into a gradual decline after that. Millions of us dream of transforming our lives, but few of us are able to make major changes after our 20s. Here’s why

Originally by herdivineshadow from digg / herdivineshadow / history on December 18, 2008, 5:59am

Google was my doctor: Says Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator

..”about six months after I’d first lost my voice, I woke up wondering if my speech problem might be related in some way to my hand problem. So I typed “voice dystonia” into Google and up popped a link to a video of a person speaking in a damaged voice..I started using Google alerts to tell me whenever someone mentioned Dilbert, me, or anything

Originally by herdivineshadow from digg / herdivineshadow / history on December 23, 2008, 4:55am