{"id":337,"date":"2013-11-13T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-11-13T14:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T14:09:00","slug":"four-steps-to-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Four Steps to Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><i>When confronted with a difficult problem take a step back\u2014literally\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s what a study conducted at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands suggests.\u00a0 Thirty-eight volunteers took a test that presented words written in different colors.\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-339\" alt=\"4steps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/4steps.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"139\" \/>The goal was to identify the colors, not the words\u2014a task that was especially tricky when a word related to a color, such as \u201cblue,\u201d appeared in a different color, such as red.<\/p>\n<p>As the volunteers stood by computers for the test, they were told to <i>take four steps away<\/i> in various directions.\u00a0 Remarkably, their performance on the test was significantly faster after they took the steps backward, compared with forward or sideways, says psychologist Severine Koch, who headed the study.<\/p>\n<p>She explains that because backing away \u201cis usually performed in dangerous or problematic situations,\u201d doing so apparently tends to prompt the brain to concentrate in order to meet a challenge.\u00a0 This experiment corroborates a study that the researches published in 2008, which found that extending one\u2019s arm \u2014as if warding something off-enhanced cognition compared with flexing the arm in a beckoning position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-338\" alt=\"Step_backward\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Step_backward.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When confronted with a difficult problem take a step back\u2014literally\u2026 It\u2019s what a study conducted at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands suggests.\u00a0 Thirty-eight volunteers took a test that presented words written in different colors.\u00a0 The goal was to identify the colors, not the words\u2014a task that was especially tricky when a word related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,11,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-living","category-articles","category-life-lessons","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.joycejuster.com\/thoughts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}