Merce Cardus's Blog, page 116
January 7, 2015
Do Humans Enjoy Being Free?
Photo Credit: h.koppdelaney via Compfight cc
Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism. Some of his famous works areExistentialism Is a Humanism,
Being and Nothingness
, andThe Philosophy of Existentialism.
Existentialist Jean Paul Sartre claimed that because there is no God, we are condemned to be free.
In his essayExistentialism Is a Humanism, Sartre famou...
HUMP DAY LINKS: Reads on Writing & Better Living: Deconstructing Everything
Photo Credit: smashz via Compfight cc
Quote of the day
I have a question. What is wine?
~FERRAN ADRIA, author ofThe Family Meal.
GENDER
Do sinking ships put women and children first? PNAS| Tweet
Since the sinking of the Titanic
, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of “women and children first” (WCF) gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew members give priority to passengers. What are the findings?
CREATIVITY
Ferran
Adrià feeds the...
December 31, 2014
The Best Articles Of 2014
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
~SØREN KIERKEGAARD.
1. Women Don’t Need Men Anymore.
Photo Credit: Robb North via Compfight cc
Read the article here.
2. When To Quit And When To Stick.
Read the article here.
3. 10 Commandments Of How To Choose Yourself (For Believers And Non Believers)
Read the article here.
4. Ernest Hemingway On How To Write Fiction
Read the article here.
5. Everything I Wanted To Do Was Not A Choice
Read the article here.
6. The Seven Spiritual Law...
December 30, 2014
Art As Experience
Art as Experience
is a pure philosophical book of all arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and literature.
The live creature:
In order to understand the meaning of artistic products, we have to forget them for a time, to turn aside from them and have recourse to the ordinary forces and conditions of experience that we do not usually regard as esthetic.
It is quite possible to enjoy flowers in their colored form and delicate fragrance without knowing anything about plants theoretically....
It Takes Courage To Start Over Again
Photo Credit: Robert Snache – Spirithands.net via Compfight cc
Courage (n)
the ability to do something that frightens one; bravery.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward, you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.You have to trust in something:your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you o...
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: What Would You Like Me To Do?
Photo Credit: AlishaV via Compfight cc
Quote of the day
Once you get the person to stop yelling, you say, “What would you like me to do?”It moves them from their dinosaur brain to their cortex, and then negotiating is possible.
~DR. ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN, author ofAm I The Only Sane One Working Here?
AGING
Let us enjoy the greatest human escape of all [The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
], FT
LEARNING
Distraction is no longer a barrier for learning, Gizmodo
BUSINESS
Amazonsay...
December 29, 2014
7 Secrets A Novelist Can Learn From Actors
[The artist’s] job is not to present merely the external life of his character. He must fit his own human qualities to the life of this other person, and pour into it all of his own soul. The fundamental aim of our art is the creation of this inner life of a human spirit, and its expression in an artistic form.
~CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKY in An Actor Prepares
.
In Getting into Character, Brandilyn Collins says writers share with actors the basic means of achiving it: observation.
From the very first...
Talent vs Skill
Photo Credit: Khatleen Minerve (Sakura) via Compfight cc
Talent (n)
Natural aptitude or skill.
Skill (n)
The ability to do something well.
The separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel, who have dreams, that wanna do things.
Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours of beating on your crap.
Failure
One of the things you have to understand is that you are supposed to fail. You are supposed to fucking f...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Surround Yourself With Positive People
Photo Credit: maplemusketeer via Compfight cc
Quote of the day
Good friends encourage you, support you, and lift you up when you’re down. They see the best in you, and that helps you see the best in yourself.
~DHARMESH SHAH
HAPPINESS
Six simple ways to be happier, Quartz
PSYCHOLOGY
Pain really does make us gain, The New Yorker
HEALTH
Hugs help protect against the common cold, research finds, PBS
SCIENCE
Biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2014, io9
FOOD
In Naples, gift of coffee to strangers never seen [A...
December 26, 2014
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: In Search Of Lost Time
Photo Credit: donsabas via Compfight cc
Quote of the day
Lean back under a tree, put your arms behind your head, wonder at the pass we’ve come to, smile and remember that the beginnings and ends of man’s every great enterprise are untidy.
~SEBASTIAN DE GRAZIA, author ofOf Time, Work, and Leisure
PSYCHOLOGY
How reading transforms us, NYT
GENDER
Is the growing market for male scorts a sign of female sexual liberation or just a re-run of the same old sterotypes? Aeon
CREATIVITY
The messy minds of creativ...
