Thomas Ramey Watson

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Why Your Second Love Will Always Be More Powerful Than Your First

A first love is innocent. You go in blind, with no understanding and no standards. Second love, now that’s the real stuff. You’ve grown from all that pain, and you have skeletons that need to be discovered. There is a lot to learn about a person based on what they don’t say, and there’s even …

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As a Holocaust Survivor, I Know This Small Action Is the True Antidote to Hate

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am very concerned when I see presidential candidates fanning the flames of animosity. In the ’30s in Germany, Jews were the target, but the dangerous rhetoric of today is focused on Muslims and particularly Syrian refugees. Like the anti-Semitic tirades of decades ago, many of the same ingredients are …

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The Surprising Benefit Of Going Through Hard Times

The phenomenon of art born from adversity can be seen not only in the lives of famous creators, but also in the lab. In the past 20 years, psychologists have begun studying post-traumatic growth, which has now been observed in more than 300 scientific studies. The term post-traumatic growth was coined in the 1990s by …

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From Greg O’Brien’s latest book, “On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s”

At a recent Cure Alzheimer’s Fund symposium at the Harvard Club of Boston, Tanzi noted that without a cure, more than 100 million people worldwide are expected to have Alzheimer’s in the next 25 years, which will bankrupt health care systems. Alzheimer’s, he said, is not your grandfather’s disease. The buildup of amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary …

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