Merce Cardus's Blog, page 112
January 28, 2015
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Is There Such A Thing As Free Will?
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
~Søren Kierkegaard, author of Provocations
HAPPINESS
Your mood vs your reality [All Marketers Are Liars]
, Seth’s Blog| Tweet
Who is happy?Are rock stars, billionaires or recently-funded entrepreneurs happier? What about teenagers with clear skin?
RUNNING
Kilian Jornet, sky runner [Run or Die
], The New Yorker| Tweet
Crouched over a Jetboil camp stove at the...
January 26, 2015
Erich Fromm on The Art of Loving
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He who knows nothing, loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. . . . The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love. . . . Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
~PARACELSUS
The Art of Lovingis not an easy instruction in the art of loving. Itwants to show that l...
The Hidden Power of Smiling
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Ron Gutman is a speaker, writer, advisor, serial entrepreneur and angel investor. A graduate of Stanford University, Gutman is the CEO and Founder of the Interactive Health company HealthTap. He is the author of Smile: The Astonishing Powers of a Simple Act 
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We’re born smiling
The good news is that we’re actually born smiling. Using 3D ultrasound technology, we can now see that developing babies appear to smile, even in the womb. When they’re born,...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Start-up Of You
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Quote of the day
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
~REID HOFFMAN, author ofThe Start-up of You.
CAREERS
10,000 hours with Reid Hoffman: What I learned [The Start-up of You
], Casnocha| Tweet
Every decision has tradeoffs: when you choose to do one thing it means you choose not do some other thing. When you choose to optimize a choice on one factor, it means necessarily suboptimizing on...
Woman’s Quest for Wholeness: The Heroine’s Journey
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The Heroine’s Journeyoffers the essence of the female journey.
Women do have a quest at this time in our culture. It is the quest to fully embrace their femenine nature, learning how to value themselves as women and to heal the deep wound of the feminine. It is a very
important inner journey toward being a fully integrated, balanced, and whole human being.
Like most journeys, the path of the heroine is not easy; it has no well-defined guideposts nor recogniz...
Step Yourself Out Of Your Comfort Zone and Study Yourself Failing
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A▪CHIEVE▪MENT.-The result of countless hours of hard work, often with multiple setbacks.
Joshua Foer is a freelance journalist living in New Haven, Connecticut, with a primary focus on science. He is theauthor of Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
has extracted four principles that describe how to push through the OK Plateau to achieve true greatness.
When we acquiring a new skill, we essentially pass through thr...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Meaninglessness Is Boring
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Quote of the day
Humans beings are addicted to meaning. We all have a great problem: Our lives must have some sort of content. We cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning. Meaninglessness is boring. And boredom can be described metaphorically as a meaning withdrawal.
~LARS SVENDSEN, author of A Philosophy of Boredom
CREATIVITY
How ‘meaning withdrawal,’ aka boredom, can boost creativity [Boredom:...
January 24, 2015
Art & Fear: Observations On The Perils (And Rewards) Of Artmaking
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Art & Fearraises three powerful questions:
What is your art really about?
Where is it going?
What stands in the way of getting it there?
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgement difficult.
~HIPPOCRATES (460-400 B.C.)
Fears
Fears about artmaking fall into two families: fears about yourself, and fears about your reception by others.
In a general way, fears about yourself prevent you from doing your best work, while fe...
January 23, 2015
Remember To Say Thank You
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Laura Trice is a counselor, life coach — and purveyor of wholesome junk food. She is author of The Wholesome Junk Food Cookbook
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I noticed in myself, when I was growing up, and until about a few years ago, that I would want to say thank you to someone, I would want to praise them, I would want to take in their praise of me and I’d just stop it. And I asked myself, why? I felt shy, I felt embarrassed. And then my question became, am I the only one who does...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Are We All Born With Synaesthesia?
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Quote of the day
His eye would not perceive colour, his ear sounds, his body would be unaware of contact with neighbouring bodies, he would not even know he had a body. All his sensations would be united in one place, they would exist only in the common “sensorium.”
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, author ofEmile
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PSYCHOLOGY
A circus of the senses, Aeon| Tweet
It makes letters colourised and numbers pulsate with cosmic time: a rare gift, or are we all on the synaestheti...
