This connection between size, skills and productivity is not simply due to brainier workers choosing to live in more populous places.

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These "haigui, " or sea turtles as they are called in China, hit the employment sweet spot with "both the cultural connection and the language skills, " according to Lance.

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Organizations are leveraging relational skills to address the need for connection felt especially by post-Boomer generations.

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The beauty and immediacy of the paintings is striking enough, but seeing them here - where the descendants of the artists are still living, and practising many of the rituals and bush skills that these images refer to - makes the connection to the past seem much more tangible, as warm as touch itself.

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Psychologist Albert Bandura of Stanford University has written extensively about the connection between positive thoughts and better sports performance, demonstrating that belief in oneself improves motor skills.

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