Write two non-overlapping essays. Your essays conern the findings found in topics #10 (stress, IQ, and meditation), and #13 (resilience, emotional regulation, and wisdom).
Your essay should have the following structure. (1) Each should explain some set of empirical findings drawn from the topics 8, and 10. (2) It should explain how those findings impact some specific area of human life. (3) It should propose an intervention of some sort that might ameliorate or increase those impacts (depending on whether the impacts are bad or good). (4) It should offer reasons for expecting the intervention to be successful. (5) It should discuss problems / objections / obstacles that stand in the way of the intervention being successful, and suggest how they might be overcome.
Essays will be evaluated for (a) the knowledge and understanding displayed; (b) the persuasiveness of your for your interventions; and (c) the creativity and inventiveness your essays display in developing your proposed interventions in detail and the thoughtfulness of your suggestions for overcoming potential obstacles.