TGIF – The Side Effects Of Peppermint

As the week winds down, we wind down with some tidbits for your information, education, health, and enjoyment.

Quote of the Week: “Ah, I recognize your scent. Do you recognize my essence?”  Danny McBride

Humor Break:

Bev: Al, do you like my new peppermint fragrance?

Al: Sure, I have a good scents of humor.

Stat of the Week: 4% more levels and 26% more hits. Harvard Business Review inserts this slightly amusing and strange statistic in its 2013 January-February issue.  Seems the sweet smell of peppermint may enhance productivity. Past research has shown that peppermint enhances attention, memory, alertness, and mood. I wonder if this works with sex too?  I think more research is called for.

Action Tip: Who knows, if you experience a drowsy work moment you might want to try sniffing peppermint as an alternative to caffeine?

Self-Development Corner: January 28 begins a surge of new courses on the free online university Coursera.  While they add courses at any time, next week has the feel of a new semester.  Let me give you a sampling of what you could delve into should the learning bug strike you:  Introduction to Finance, (15 weeks, University of Michigan); Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Private Businesses, Part I, (5 weeks, University of Virginia); Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies, (6 weeks, University of Maryland); Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, (6 weeks, University of California, San Francisco); Model Thinking, (10 weeks, University of Michigan); and Microeconomics for Managers, (10 weeks, University of California, Irvine) or Microeconomics Principles, (8 weeks, University of Illinois). .

And finally, just to show you that I wouldn’t ask you to do anything I wouldn’t do, here is a class I signed up for.  Feel free to join in with me and 260,000 (yes that number is correct) other eager learners: Introduction to Philosophy, (7 weeks, University of Edinburgh).

Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.