Some recent research suggests that, by thinking about death so often, the Bhutanese may be on to something.
This phenomenon can best be understood by thinking about what would happen if there were a water shortage.
Aside from keeping track of your accomplishments and contributions, you can plan by thinking about things like timing.
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By thinking about savings and gift preparations now, you can avoid a shocker of a credit card bill after the new year.
For the able-bodied, it could allow workers to dictate documents silently to computers simply by thinking about what they want to say.
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Last year, researchers published a video of a paralyzed woman using a robot arm to feed herself chocolate by thinking about it.
In high school, Hotz built the Neuropilot, a sort of Segway controlled by brain waves, which you could drive around by thinking about it.
Ms. Kennedy encourages young adults to dive into robotics by thinking about problems in the world that could be solved with an application of technology.
Without it, trust is impossible and so by thinking about it, reflecting on its role in our society, and finally challenging our own assumptions we come to grips with it.
Men's cognitive areas may be more highly triggered because they would have had to make "fight-or-flight" decisions, while women would have reacted to threats by thinking about how they could protect their children.
Our attention is often captured by news about large products such as cruise liners or airplanes, but one of the best ways for investors to think big is by thinking about the small things in life: the really, really small things.
Most of all, get in the habit of stimulating your mind by not thinking about your business.
Have you ever tried to lose weight by not thinking about food?
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Widen your alternatives by thinking more creatively about your living situation in retirement, too.
Still, most of us could benefit by thinking more carefully about the tradeoffs we make between time and money.
And, this year, instead of promising to transform yourself overnight into a better parent, how about committing to continually improve your parenting little by little, by learning, thinking deeply about, and mastering one skill at a time?
Start by spending some time thinking about how you want to be perceived.
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Company President Peter Goltra, an engineer by training, began thinking about how to build a software engine to help doctors more quickly access patient information more than thirty years ago.
It is comforting to know that Mr Bush is being advised by someone who is thinking seriously about what to do in bad times as well as good.
However, the launch coincided with a push on Twitter by Google to get people thinking about what they would do if they had a pair of the augmented reality spectacles.
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This meant they were able to figure out which of the four profiles the participant was thinking about just by looking at what part of the brain showed greater activation when a participant was imagining a scene.
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By this time, Barry was thinking about how he could rig things to get reelected in spite of his many failures.
By June 2004 Semel was thinking harder about mining the 10 terabytes of data per day that Yahoo collects on Internet activity.
By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible.
He also said what many are thinking about the looming report by Lord Hutton into the death of Dr David Kelly.
But it appears that by focusing on so many datapoints and thinking about key demographics, Mr Penn neglected the big fact that primaries are not the same as general elections.
Much thinking about immigration remains shaped by statistics from 30 and 40 years ago, when immigrants arrived with higher levels of education than natives and equaled native wages within a decade.
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