Green helps you to be Creative.

Red tends to make one prone to be violent,Blue calmness .

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Writer’s block? In a static slump? Think green.

Yup, Kermit’s favorite color may actually get our creative juices flowing, according to a recent study.

The study, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, asked 69 men and women to take two minutes to come up with as many uses for a tin can as they could. Before the time started, half the group was shown a white rectangle, and the other half a green one. After the two minutes, a trained coder rated each idea for its creativity. The findings? Participants who saw green before the test came up with the more interesting, imaginative answers.

The study volunteers were also presented with other creativity challenges, where a flash of green was pitted against flashes of red, blue or grey. “The green effect,” as the German researchers dubbed it, again produced the most creative responses.

Why is our creativity sparked by green? Study author Dr. Stephanie Lichtenfeld, an assistant professor of psychology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, told MSNBC that the reason behind the creativity hike may be that green is a signal of growth (both physical and psychological). Lichtenfeld says, “Green may serve as a cue that evokes the motivation to strive for improvement and task mastery, which in turn may facilitate growth.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/03/green-colors-creative_n_1386190.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

Brain Mechanisms of Self-Consciousness.

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On can not reduce everything to chemicals and numbers.

However note the point that they have found a zone which exists that perceives and records individual with reference to Space.

But nobody has defined Space, they have described it.

Consciousness is beyond Mind.
Activity of the Brain is Mind.,which is like a CPU, for storing information.
Higher level is Intellect which sorts out, discriminates and adds judgements ,Right or Wrong.
Still higher level is Chitta which directs the intellect, which is determined by Dispositions that are inborn.

Note that in all these activities and whatever we do, including what I write now, I am aware and observing what I am doing.
This awareness at all levels of activity, whether physical or mental is beyond these states.
Also we are aware of dreams in Dreams and in some cases we recollect.
In these experiences we observe and participate as well
Consciousness is a part Human activity in all human behavior ,yet beyond it.

Story:

A new study uses creative engineering to unravel brain mechanisms associated with one of the most fundamental subjective human feelings: self-consciousness. The research, published in the April 28 issue of the journal Neuron, identifies a brain region called the temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) as being critical for the feeling of being an entity localized at a particular position in space and for perceiving the world from this position and perspective….

“Our results illustrate the power of merging technologies from engineering with those of neuroimaging and cognitive science for the understanding of the nature of one of the greatest mysteries of the human mind: self-consciousness and its neural mechanisms,” concludes Dr. Blanke. “Our findings on experimentally and pathologically induced altered states of self-consciousness present a powerful new research technology and reveal that TPJ activity reflects one of the most fundamental subjective feelings of humans: the feeling that ‘I’ am an entity that is localized at a position in space and that ‘I’ perceive the world from here.”

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110427131818.htm

Related:

Psychology and neuroscience have made major progress in explaining many kinds of thinking such as problem solving, learning, and language use. But many people still have the intuition that, no matter how far cognitive science progresses, it will still be unable to deal with the mystery of consciousness. On this view, we all have a basic understanding of conscious experience from our own episodes of perception, sensation, emotion, and reflection. But there is an unbridgeable explanatory gap that prevents science from drawing consciousness within its scope.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hot-thought/201104/what-is-consciousness

Millionaire High School Dropouts

Perusal of History of inventors like Edison,Geniuses like Einstein,Great Artistes like Beethoven have had poor schooling if not none.Some of them had even physical disabilities as well.
others like Macaulay ,though well educated turned out to be pedantic and no originality or real time contributions that can be treated on par with those mentioned above have been noticed.
Makes one wonder whether Formal Education

really stunts original thinking.I tend to agree.
Story:
While the rest of us were negotiating curfews and cramming for the SATs, some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs ditched high school to start building their fortunes.

Many did it out of necessity; others had a mentor (or at least a backer looking to piggyback on their success). All, however, had a demon drive to build something of their own. Even at a young age, that commitment and passion can win over investors.
http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/30/millionaires-without-high-school-diplomas-entrepreneurs-finance-millionaire.html?boxes=Homepagemostpopular

“Investors really look at the person and the quality of his or her idea more than their experience,” says Brad Burke, managing director of Rice University’s Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which incubates new compan