"We think our decisions are conscious," said neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, who is pioneering this research. "But these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg. This doesn't rule out free will, but it does make it implausible." - maurycy via Bookmarklet
"Stress. The literature on individual psychology, the consensus is that stress has an inverted-U shape relationship with performance—e.g., Jamal (1984). The relationship also slides rightward as individuals adapt to stress. Further, the increase in performance is biased toward quantity and against quality. The results seem to be also supported among groups, see Karau and Kelly (1992). For example, Kruglanski and Webster (1991] report that within a group, deviating opinions are rejected more with time pressure while conforming ones are accepted more. Stress works through several mechanisms in its link to performance:" - maurycy via Bookmarklet
"Sergey Brin went to the University of Maryland. Larry Page went to Michigan. Marc Andreessen and Max Levchin went to the University of Illinois.
This not to say some schools aren't better than others, but when people do great things it's usually because of who they are rather than where they went to college." - maurycy via Bookmarklet
