Merce Cardus's Blog, page 110
February 5, 2015
Eckhart Tolle On Stillness: Where Creativity and Solutions To Problems Are Found
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InStillness Speaks, Eckhart Tolle helps us remove that which separates us from the truth of who we already are and what we already know in the depth of our being.
Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness?
The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are being perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world.
Do you need silence to find stillness?
Silence is helpful, but...
Michele de Montaigne on Self-Esteem
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The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Nathaniel Branden,one of the pioneering figures in the field of self-esteem, defines self-esteem in The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
as,
The experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness.
Montaigne wanted in his bookThe Complete Essays
to draw the whole portrait of what humans are. In the video below, Alain de Botton
,aSwiss writer and philosopher, presents...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Give and Take
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Quote of the day:
We become matchers, striving to preserve an equal balance of giving and getting. Matchers operate on the principle of fairness: when they help others, they protect themselves by seeking reciprocity. If you’re a matcher, you believe in tit for tat.
~ADAM M. GRANT, author of Give and Take.
EDUCATION
The techies who are hacking education by homeschooling their kids, Wired| Tweet
In recent years, Peter Thiel has launched a broadside against higher...
February 4, 2015
Why We Do What We Do In Life And Business
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Habits can be changed if we understand how they work.
The Power of Habitis an interesting book, which tells how habits work on a neurological level. ‘More than 40 % of the actions people performed each day weren’t actual decisions, but habits,’ one paper published by a Duke University concluded.
The neurology of habit formations:
Habits, scientists say, emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort. Left to its own devices,...
How Sugar Affects The Brain
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Video of the day:
Researchers have known for some time now that the cornerstone of al
l degenerative conditions, including brain disorders, is inflammation. But what they didn’t have documented until now are the instigators of that inflammation—the first missteps that prompt this deadly reaction. And what they are finding is that gluten, and a high-carbohydrate diet for that matter, are among the most prominent stimulators of inflammatory pathways th...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Spirulina Is The Near-Perfect Food
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Quote of the day
Spirulina possesses a unique combination of nutrients that cannot only help to cleanse human bodies, but also provide antioxidant, radical scavenging, anticancer, antiviral, anti-inflammation, hepatoprotection, and immunomodulation capabilities.
~University of California,Spirulina in Human Nutrition and Health
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CREATIVITY
Two new books demonstrate that collaboration drives creativity, The Creativity Post| Tweet
Walter Isaacson’s book The In...
February 2, 2015
The Six Thinking Hats Method
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Six Thinking Hatscan help you think better-with its practical and uniquely positive approach to making decisions and exploring new ideas. An inspiring book for anyone who makes decisions in business or in life.
Six Hats, Six Colors
Each one of the six hats to think have a color: white, red, black, yellow, green, blue. The color gives name to the hat.
In addition, color of each hat is related to his fundón.
White Hat: The target is neutral and objective. The...
Oren Harman on The Price Of Altruism: George Price and The Search For The Origins Of Kindness
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Video of the day:
Kindness is kindness only if it is meant to be so. Of course the brain is an evolved organ. But psychological altruism, the kind we talk about when we are thinking of human affairs, is entirely independent from biological altruism, or the kind that confers fitness on its bearer.
Oren Harman is a writer and a professor of the history of science at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is best known as the author of several critically ac...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The College Of The Streets
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Quote of the day
Start a business. This is the college of the streets. And when you have to eat what you kill, you learn extremely fast. You learn how to come up with ideas that will be accepted by other people. Most kids graduate college with an atrophied idea muscle. Starting a business forces you to exercise that muscle every day.
~JAMES ALTUCHER, author of40 Alternatives to College
CREATIVITY
What we talk about when we talk about ideas, Creative Somethi...
A Guide To The Good Life: The Ancient Art Of Stoic Joy
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Your primary desire, says Epictetus, should be your desire not to be frustrated by forming desires you won’t be able to fulfill.
One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we wi
ll discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life
, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insig...
