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Tag: psychology
Overdrive Extra
The heart of a trucker: Chance to make a stand against child abuse
Clifford Petersen on the All Truckers Together Against Child Abuse (or ATTACA) group, with an anti-child abuse mission, founded by Western Flyer Express’ Rodney Timms: “We connected for less than three minutes on the phone … yet I knew right away I had to do something to help his cause. Like Rodney, I grew up in the home of an abusive father.” …
October 28, 2019
Overdrive Extra
What a driver really needs
“As with so many trucking issues, a look at Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs brings us back to pay. Without money, the first basic needs, on which the entire pyramid sits, cannot be met. Last year drivers saw movement, but drivers need a sense of pride. How can we bring that back?”
April 9, 2019
Overdrive Extra
Cultivating happiness in work: Time for a new approach
“For truckers who already have the deck stacked against them when trying to maintain health, poor work performance as a result of stress can have deadly results. This reality goes largely unaddressed by many carrier support structures, and drivers begin to feel more like a number, or a cog in a giant machine that is eating away their lives.”
March 18, 2019
Life
Color stimulates the brain
The science of color has been intrinsically entwined with the psychology of color from the beginning. It’s one of the few disciplines that cuts across the boundaries of art, biology, physics, psychology, chemistry and geology.
April 8, 2014
Channel 19
Kick the habit with hypnosis?
Tried to quit smoking 20 times only to start again? If so, you’ve got a friend here. A hypnotist based in Florida has developed both in-person hypnosis and at-home self-hypnosis tools that may help.
October 18, 2012
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