Merce Cardus's Blog, page 115
January 12, 2015
The Little Red Writing Book
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To write well, express yourself like the common people,but think like a wise man.
—Aristotle.
The Little Red Writing Book
is about what you have to do to hear just the right words at just the right time to speak them in just the right rhythm.A sentence is just like a walk
What the morning tells me is that a sentence is just like a walk—like this one in particular. A good sentence is a gravel path through a forest. It’s a track, not a road; it’s a trail, not...
The Power Of Vulnerability
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Brené Brownis an American scholar, author, and public speaker, who is currently a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work.Over the last twelve years she has been involved in research on a range of topics, including vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. She is the author of The Power of Vulnerability
,The Gifts of Imperfection
and Daring Greatly.
ere I started was with connection. Because, by the tim...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: How Music Plays The Mind
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Quote of the day
Just by living and listening, we have all acquired deep musical knowledge
~ELIZABETH HELLMUTH, author of On Repeat: How Music Plays the Mind
SOCIAL MEDIA
A teenager’s view on Social Media, Medium| Tweet
I read technology articles quite often and see plenty of authors attempt to dissect or describe the teenage audience, especially in regards to social media. However, I have yet to see a teenager contribute their voice to this discussi...
January 9, 2015
Zen In The Art Of Writing
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When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.
Zen in the Art of Writing
is a must for anyone interested in writing and life.
You will enjoy writing if you know yourself:
Lao-Tzu said ‘He who know others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.’
If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ea...
4 Lessons In Creativity
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The story that we all live [is] the cycle of creation and destruction, of control and letting go, of picking up the pieces and making something new.
— Julie Burstein.
In 2000, Julie Burstein, created Public Radio International’s show Studio 360 to explore pop culture and the arts. Hosted by novelist Kurt Andersen and produced at WNYC, the show is a guide to what’s interesting now—and asks deep questions about the drive behind creative work.
Now, Burs...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Becoming A Parent Looks Like Falling In Love
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Quote of the day
Becoming a parent looks—at least in the brain—a lot like falling in love.
~RUTH FELDMAN, brain researcher.
CREATIVITY
Easy things you can do every day to improve your creativity, Creative Something| Tweet
‘A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.’Jacob Bronowski.
BUSINESS
How Lego became...
January 8, 2015
Thinking, Fast and Slow
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The people who make the most difference to the lives of other people are very optimistic. They have an illusion of control.
— Daniel Kahneman
InThinking, Fast and Slow
,Daniel Kahneman, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic sciences, explains the two systems that drive the way we think.Our thinking depends on neural connections, as Peter Bevelin states in Seeking Wisdom
, so what we think and feel depends on chemical reactions. Daniel Kahneman frames the w...
Crazy Is A Compliment
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As the CEO and Co-Founder of Endeavor, Linda Rottenberg works with entrepreneurs aro
und the world on a daily basis, helping them grow their businesses for maximum impact. She is the author of Crazy Is a Compliment
.
Today entrepreneurship doesn’t just mean starting a tech company. It means undertaking any bold venture–from improving your neighborhood to selling crafts out of your basement; from modernizing your family business to proposing a new initiative...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: There’s no shortage of brilliant female economists
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Quote of the day
Even if, in our slow thinking, we work to avoid discrimination, it can easily creep into our fast thinking. Our snap judgments rely on all the associations we have—from fictional television shows to news reports. They use stereotypes, both the accurate and the inaccurate, both those we would want to use and ones we find repulsive.
~Sendhil Mullainathan, author ofScarcity
GENDER
How big is the sexism prob...
January 7, 2015
Flow And The Psychology Of Discovery And Invention
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
~MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI.
InCreativity
,Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, professor and former chairman of the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago, reveals the mysterious process by which men and women come up with new ideas and new things.
Creative persons have one thing in common: They all love what they do.
Creative persons differ from one another in a variety of ways, but in one respect they are unanimous: The...
