Merce Cardus's Blog, page 122
November 6, 2014
THURSDAY LINKS ~Reads on Writing & Better Living: Highly Creative Entrepreneurs Are Rule Breakers
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Quote of the day
Highly creative entrepreneurs are rule breakers who don’t like to conform to norms and traditions of the industry.
~SANGEETA BHARADWAJ BADAL, Ph.D.
CREATIVITY
Great Entrepreneurs are creative thinkers (Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder)
, Creativity at work
HEALTH
Shift work dulls your brain, BBC News
MUSIC
Spotify can’t succeed if it keeps screwing songwriters, Wired
TECHNOLOGY
An iPad best for work, not play, Fortune
BRANDING
Brand it like Branson, T...
November 5, 2014
The Entrepreneurs’ mantra: Practice, Practice, Practice
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It seems that a new research by Standford Professor Kathryn Shaw sheds some light over the debate on whether entrepreneurs are just born that way or can be taught the skills to start and run a successful business.
The research, which examined records of 2.8 million small retailers in Texas, found that entrepreneurs were more likely to succeed the more times they had run businesses in the past. So allow me to name the entrepreneurs’ mantra as: Practic...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Move Everyday
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Quote of the day
The more streamlined and compact your white matter is, the faster and more efficiently your brain functions. The real enemy is sedentarism… Just a little bit of movement every day helps preserve the integrity of your brain’s white matter.
~CHRISTOPHER BERGLAND.
LEARNING
Curiosity: it helps us learn, but why?, NPR
How to learn a new language: 7 secrets from TED translators, TED
HEALTH
How exercise changes your brain to be better at basically...
November 4, 2014
The Manifesto: The Economics of Enough
In 2008, financial markets around the world plunged. Back then, I was living in the USA and I still remember people talking everywhere about the Great Depression.
This crisis has proven a catalyst for many people to ask questions about the economy and the multiple changes the leading industrial economy are facing. There are challenges like the erosion of trust, and obstacles since there’s any response from the political framework and institutions. Even though economic growth doesn’t increase h...
TUESDAY LINKS ~Reads on Writing & Better Living: On The Right Path
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Quote of the day
Living an authentic life is about feeling that you’re on the right path, and that no matter what comes your way, you have the right to say ‘yes’ to the things you want, and ‘no’ to the things which don’t serve you.
~KATE TAYLOR.
LIFESTYLE
Are you living an authentic life? Medium
WELL-BEING
10 ways to improve health & well-being based on latest non-invasive neurotechnologies, The Creativity Post
SOCIAL MEDIA
This man uses Twitter to augment his da...
November 3, 2014
Ask Yourself In The Most Silent Hour Of Your Night: Must I Write?
Letters to a Young Poetis a collection of ten letters written by Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Xaver Kappus, a 19-year old officer cadet. Rilke, the son of an Austrian army officer, had studied at the academy’s lower school in the 1890s. Kappus corresponded with the popular poet and author from 1902 to 1908 seeking his advice as to the quality of his poetry, and in deciding between a literary career or a career as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. Kappus compiled a...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: How to Walk Better
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Quote of the day
To walk for hours on a clear night is the largest experience we can have.
~THOMAS CLARK
WELL-BEING
How and why we walk and how to walk better, Medium
RELATIONSHIPS
When DNA is the matchmaker, Fortune
FOOD
What the world eats, National Geographic
How candy conquered Halloween (Candy
), Bloomberg
PSYCHOLOGY
That devil on your shoulder likes to sleep in, NYT
ART
Make your soul grow, MC’s Blog
Reading a poem: 20 strategies, The Atlantic
Happy Monday!
You can...
October 31, 2014
Make Your Soul Grow
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Five New York City high school students wrote Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse-Five,
Cat’s Cradle
and Breakfast of Champions
, and other authors as part of a 2006 English assignment. He was the only one who replied with the following letter:
Dear Xavier High School, and Ms. Lockwood, and Messrs Perin, McFeely, Batten, Maurer and Congiusta:
I thank you for your friendly letters. You sure know how to cheer up a really old geezer (84) in his sunset yea...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Getting Thoughts on Paper
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Quote of the day
By putting half-formed thoughts on the page, we externalize them and are able to evaluate them much more objectively. This is why writers often find that it’s only when they start writing that they figure out what they want to say.
~CLIVE THOMPSON, author ofSmarter Than You Think.
BUSINESS
How Facebook could end up controlling everything you watch and read online, Wired
APPLE
Thank you, Tim Cook, The Verge
SOCIAL MEDIA
Can Instagram c...
October 30, 2014
Women Don’t Need Men Anymore
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The first thing I thought when I read the headline ‘Women don’t need men anymore’ in a newspaper is:
First.
Who said that statement is a woman. And I was right.
Second.
She must be French. And I was right.
Third.
She is either old or a mature one. And I was wrong.
Those words came out from a French actress named Ludivine Sagnier. She is 35 years old. She played a role in Cyrano de Bergerac with the always controversial actor Gérard Depardieu.
Ludivine said tha...
