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March 26, 2015
The Impact of The Highly Improbable: The Black Swan
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Remember that you are a Black Swan.
InThe Black Swan,
Taleb shows in a playful way that Black Swan events explain almost everything about our world, and yet we—especially the experts—are blind to them.
Yevgenia’s interest in philosophy
Five years ago, Yevgenia Nikolayevna Krasnova was an obscure and unpublished novelist, with an unusual background. She was a neuroscientist with an interest in philosophy (her first three husbands had been philosophe...
4 Recommendations From Nietzsche
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‘What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger’
‘God is dead! And we have killed him.’Friedrich Nietzsche
A thinker who is intermittently enchanting, wise andvery helpful. Hewas born in 1844 in a quiet village in the eastern part of Germanywhere his father was the priest. He did exceptionally well at school and university and so excelled atancient Greek that he was made a professorat the University of Baselwhen still only in his mid-twen...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Life-Changing Magic Of Tidying Up
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Quote of the dayKeep only those things that speak to your heart. Then take the plunge and discard all the rest. By doing this, you can reset your life and embark on a new lifestyle.
~MARIE KONDO, author ofThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
THE BRAIN
How does consuming glucose affect your memory?, Big Think| Tweet
It makes logical sense that sugar could cause hyperactivity due to the fact that glucose...
March 25, 2015
Unleashing The Ideavirus
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Counter to traditional marketing wisdom, which tries to count, measure, and manipulate the spread of information, in Unleashing the Ideavirus,Seth Godin argues that the information can spread most effectively from customer to customer, rather than from business to customer. Godin calls this powerful customer-to- customer dialogue the ideavirus, and cheerfully eggs marketers on to create an environment where their ideas can replicat...
9 Life Lessons from Rock Climbing
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Climbing is not only safe…but also incredibly liberating and empowering.
~KATIE BROWN
For women intrigued by the sport of climbing but intimidated by its male dominance and stereotype as “extreme,” Girl on the Rocks
is a monumental resource, providing instructions on technique, strength, and mental agility from a woman’s perspective.
Matthew Childs is an advertising lead at Razorfish. He is a lifelong rock climber and climbing guide.
There are nine, sort...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Eat Your Way To Better Health
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Quote of the day
Coconut oil has a long and highly respected reputation in many cultures throughout the world, not only as valuable food but also as an effective medicine.
~BRUCE FIFE, author ofThe Coconut Oil Miracle
NUTRITION
Coconut oil: should you eat it or wear it? Boston| Tweet
Coconut oil has been purported to be kind to your heart, slimming to your waist and good for your skin and hair. So should you eat it or wear it? Or both?
March 24, 2015
Kahlil Gibran on Giving
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The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational.
Then said a rich man, “Speak to us of Giving.“
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.For what are your possessions but things you keep and guard for fear you may need them tomorrow?
And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones...
What is Déjà Vu?
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Michio Kakuis an American futurist,theoretical physicist and popularizer of science. He is the author of Physics of the Impossible,
Physics of the Future
, andThe Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
.
What is déjà vu?
Déjà vu is a phenomenon that all of us have experienced, that eerie feeling when you walk into a room or enter a new situation and you say to yourself, ‘I’ve been here before. I mean,...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Embracing Our Humanity With Self-Compassion
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A human being is part of the whole, called by us ‘universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest–a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to e...
March 23, 2015
Love is a Verb
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To become aware of one’s own being is the beginnin
g of thejourney towards love.
InBeing in Love, Osho—one of the most revolutionary thinkers of our time—challenges us to question what we think we know about love and opens us to the possibility of a love that is natural, fulfilling, and free of possessiveness and jealousy.
Love vs Fear
Love is existential; fear is only the absence of love. And the problem with any absence is that you cannot do anything...
