Generation Next Blog

September 2012

5 Ways to Lead with Emotional Intelligence

By |2012-09-28T16:55:14+10:00September 28th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , |

The bottom line is that leaders must be more emotionally intelligent to be more effective and efficient at maximizing outcomes and desired results.     Here are 5 ways to get started. via 5 Ways to Lead with Emotional Intelligence -- and Boost Productivity - Forbes.

Australian Medical Association calls for legal drinking age to be lifted to 25

By |2012-09-28T15:21:20+10:00September 26th, 2012|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol|Tags: , , |

THE legal drinking age should be lifted to 25 to stop young people becoming addicted to alcohol and limit the violence associated with drunkenness, the head of the nation's peak medical organisation says. AMA president Dr Steve Hambleton said the human brain was still developing until the age of 25 and exposure to alcohol earlier [...]

Students swot up on sleeplessness

By |2012-09-28T15:48:17+10:00September 26th, 2012|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , |

YEAR 12 students are about to enter the most sleepless time of their schooling life, with adolescent health specialists overwhelmed during the Higher School Certificate period. Paediatric sleep specialist at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Chris Seton, is overwhelmed by bookings every September, with only a month to go until students start their written exams [...]

Rudyard Kipling: If

By |2012-09-28T15:52:48+10:00September 26th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being [...]

Long and the short of US woes

By |2012-09-28T15:57:08+10:00September 26th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , |

A new study says white Americans with low educational levels have already lost an average of four years from their life expectancy. That's the loss of 5 per cent of the average lifespan for an American who lacks a high school diploma, and it's happened at astonishing speed - between 1990 and 2008, says the [...]

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness

By |2012-09-28T16:52:57+10:00September 25th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

“The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.” — Eric Hoffer As soon as an American baby is born, its parents enter into an implicit contractual obligation to answer any question about their hopes for their tiny offspring’s future with the words: “I don’t care, as long as he’s happy” (the [...]

Self-harmers at increased risk of early death from all causes

By |2012-09-28T16:16:59+10:00September 25th, 2012|Categories: Drugs & Alcohol, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , |

When a person performs an act of self harm, the medical professional's first priority is to get him or her safely past that immediate event. But research published Monday evening in the British medical journal 'The Lancet' finds that people who harm themselves — by intentionally injuring or poisoning themselves, with or without suicidal intent, [...]

Stress At Work And Heart Disease

By |2012-09-28T16:20:34+10:00September 25th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , |

Large Europe-wide study confirms work stress linked to greater risk of heart disease People who have highly demanding jobs and little freedom to make decisions are 23% more likely to experience a heart attack compared with their counterparts without such work stress, according to a study of nearly 200 000 people from seven European countries [...]

Mind of a twitter troll

By |2012-09-28T16:27:30+10:00September 25th, 2012|Categories: Cybersafety, Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , |

It started in July 2009. I'd been on Twitter for over 2 years at that point having joined in May 2007, and I'd never had a problem. My account was followed by a fairly innocuous looking one which I followed back and within 10 minutes I had received a Direct Message (DM) calling me a [...]

Well and Good: Morality, Meaning and Happiness

By |2012-09-28T16:47:57+10:00September 25th, 2012|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , |

Today, many more people are living much richer, longer lives than ever before. So is all well and good? Not exactly. There is growing evidence that quality of life is not the same as standard of living, and that how well we live is not just a matter of how long we live, especially in [...]

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