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October 14, 2014
TUESDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Why experts reject creativity?
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Quote of the day
Science advances one funeral at a time
~Phisicist MAX PLANCK
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
The rival wears Prada: Is luxury consumption a female competition strategy?, NCBI
CREATIVITY
Why experts reject creativity?, The Atlantic
NUTRITION
9 facts you didn’t know about pistachios(The Roman Cookery Book
, Mastering the Art of French Cooking
),Self
SOCIAL SCIENCES
How to make ideas survive with the principles of success (Made to Stick), MC’s Blog
MOVIES
We’ve s...
October 13, 2014
How to make ideas survive with the principles of success
Chip Heath & Dan Heath, authors ofMade to Stick, are interested in how effective ideas are constructed—what make some ideas stick and others disappear. In this way, they tell us that what stick is systematic creativity.
Highly creative ads are more predictable than uncreative ones. It’s like Tolstoy’s quote: ‘All happy families resemble each other, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ All creative ads resemble one another, but each loser is uncreative in its own way.
But if creat...
Should prizes keep existing, give them to the young. Go, Malala, go!
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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
, she stated in her memoir. She won 2014 Nobel Peace Price. She is only seventeen years old. Therefore, she is the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
Just saying upfront: I don’t believe in the Nobel Prize (nor in the majority of prizes). Should they keep existing, give them to the young!
Many young people stand out in this unbalanced world, working e...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The brain wants variation to better learn
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Quote of the day
You’re spending a lot of effort to just staying there, when there are other ways to make the learning more efficient, fun and interesting. The brain wants variation.
~BENEDICT CAREY
FREEDOM
Give Catalonia its freedom to vote, The Independent
TECHNOLOGY
Comedy club uses facial recognition to charge by the laugh, CNBC
PSYCHOLOGY
To better learn, the brain wants variation (How We Learn
), Well-NYT
AMAZON
Amazon is not a monopoly, NYmag
WRITING
An applicati...
October 10, 2014
Don’t overdo running, underdo it
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Fred Rohe was a regular runner for more than four years when he wrote The zen of running
. This short book, published in 1974, combines beautiful black and white photographs with poetic prose. In short, it reminds us that running can be fun, and a way not to get somewhere but to find yourself.
Lao Tzu wrote the book Tao Te Ching
about 2500 years ago. The most fundamental textbooks on the philosophy and methodology of spiritual development questioned the ver...
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The difficulty to identify emotion in emails
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Quote of the day
Email recipients only identified seriousness or sarcasm 56% of the time–not much better than chance.
~JUSTIN KRUGER
BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Why it’s so hard to detect emotion in emails and texts, FastCo
PEOPLE
Seeking identity, ‘Hong Kong People’ look to city, not state, NYT
HEALTH
Is Meditation really worth it?, Time
TIME MANAGEMENT
Why more time is not what you need, and other productivity tips for writers, Forbes
CORRESPONDENCE
E.B. White’s bea...
October 9, 2014
No Ignoramus (innocent of education) has ever produced great art
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.
John Gardner, author and creative writing teacher and also professor of medieval literature, presentedThe Art of Fiction
, a classic on the craft of writing fiction,in two parts:1. Notes on Literary-Aesthetic Theory.
Albeit writing is a way of organizing experience and life, so it implies some logical operation, John Gardner, author of novels likeGrendel
,considers that intuition plays a great role in writin...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Buy experiences, not things
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Quote of the day
A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.
~DANIEL GILBERT & MATTHEW KILLINGSWORTH
BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS
Buy experiences, not things, The Atlantic
MANAGING YOURSELF
Stop believing that you have to be perfect, HBR
PHILOSOPHY
Understanding philosophy through jokes, MC’s Blog
APPLE
Is this Apple’s next iPad Air?, The Verge
SOCIAL MEDIA
How to use Google + Hashtags for more exposure, Social Media Examiner
New dating app caters to rich but weeding out...
October 8, 2014
Understanding Philosophy through Jokes
TASSO: Atlas stands on the back of a turtle.
DIMITRI: But what does the turtle stand on?
TASSO: Another turtle.
DIMITRI: And what does the turtle stand on?
TASSO: My dear Dimitri, it’s turtles all the way down!
Plato and a Platypus Walk into
a Baris a clear example that learning is not at odds with humor. Written by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, it explains basic philosophical concepts through classical jokes.
A peppy little book which has the purpose to put things upside down, so we can wonder...
Hump Day Links ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Understand your own values
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Quote of the day
To be mature you have to realize what you value most.
~ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
FREEDOM
Want to know why Catalans want to leave the loving embrace of Spain?, VothSpeak
CULTURE
The impossible elegance of the human tower, The Atlantic
HAPPINESS
How can I be happy?, British Humanist Association
QUOTES
‘To be mature you have to realize what you value most’, Swissmiss
SELF-ESTEEM
Why thinking you’re ugly is bad for you, TED
HISTORY
A short history of nearly...
