Merce Cardus's Blog, page 103
March 12, 2015
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: To Tip Or Not To Tip–That’s The Question
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Quote of the day
In New York City alone more than $100,000 a day is paid in gratuities to waiters, hotel employes, chauffers, barbers and allied classes. But New York has reached a subserviency to the tipping custom that is amazing in a democratic country.
This vast tribute is paid for not more real service than the Barbery pirates rendered to those from whom they exacted tribute. It is given to workers who are paid by the employers to perform the serv...
March 11, 2015
The Human Search For Meaning
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Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning.
In Man’s Search for Meaning
, the neurologist and psychiatrist Victor
Frankl wrote about his experience as a concentration camp inmate during the Second World War.
Frankl’s theory-known as logotherapy, from the Greek word logos (“meaning”)-holds that our primary drive in life is not pleasure, as Freud maintained, but the dis...
The Point Of Travel
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The Art of Travel
tell us how and why to travel.
Even as de Botton takes thereader along on his own peregrinations, he also cites such distinguishedfellow-travelers as Baudelaire, Wordsworth, Van Gogh, the biologist Alexander von Humboldt, and the 18th-century eccentric Xavier de Maistre, who catalogued the wonders of his bedroom.
What’s the point of travel?
It’s to help make usinto better people. It’s a sort of therapywithout anything mystical b...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Uncertainty Makes You Work Harder
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Quote of the day
Fear of judgment stifles our ability to embrace uncertainty and as part of that process delivers a serious blow to our willingness to create anything that hasn’t already been done and validated.
~JONATHAN FIELDS, author ofUncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
MOTIVATION
More trouble than it’s worth, Seth’s Blog| Tweet
In five words, that’s one secret to delight.
→What To Do When It’s Your Turn (and it’s always your turn)
HAP...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Uncertainty Makes You Work Harder
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Quote of the day
Fear of judgment stifles our ability to embrace uncertainty and as part of that process delivers a serious blow to our willingness to create anything that hasn’t already been done and validated.
~JONATHAN FIELDS, author ofUncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance
MOTIVATION
More trouble than it’s worth, Seth’s Blog| Tweet
In five words, that’s one secret to delight.
→What To Do When It’s Your Turn (and it’s always your turn)
HAP...
March 10, 2015
The Marriage Supermarket, Somewhere In Economic Space
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There are 1.3 million single men in New York, 1.8 million single women, and of these more than 3 million people, about twelve think they’re having enough sex.
~CARRIE BRADSHAW, Sex and the City: The Movie
The argument of The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of 
an Irrational World
is that rational behavior is much more widespread than you would expect and crops up in the most unexpected places and that the economists’ faith in rationality produces r...
Be An Opportunity Maker
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We all want to use our talents to create something meaningful with our lives. But how to get started? (And … what if you’re shy?)
Writer Kare Anderson shares her own story of chronic shyness, and howshe opened up her world by helping other people use their own talents and passions. She is the author ofMutuality Matters How You Can Create More Opportunity, Adventure & Friendship With Others
My idea to reimagine the world is to see it one where we al...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: It’s Never Too Late To Start
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When Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin, at that time two of the most famous people in the world, pulled up in their car to an opening of Chaplin’s latest film, the fans went wild. They clawed at the windows and climbed over one another to stare inside. Bewildered, Einstein said to Chaplin, “What does this mean?” Chaplin replied, “It means nothing. Absolutely nothing.”
~BARBARA SHER, author ofIt’s Only Too Late If You Don’t Start Now
MOTIVATION
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March 9, 2015
10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
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Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.
You don’t need to be a genius, y...
Why Does Time Go Forward?
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If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?
~STEPHEN HAWKING, author of A Brief History of Time
How did the universe begin—and what made its start possible? Does time always flow forward? Is the universe unending—or are there boundaries? Are there other dimensions in space? What will happen when it all ends?
A Brief History of Time
plunges into the exotic realms of black holesand quarks, of antimatter and “arrows of tim...
