Merce Cardus's Blog, page 51
February 24, 2016
The Mortal Wound
Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue
of mortality.
Self-awareness is a supreme gift
A treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
For some of us the fear of death manifests only indirectly, either as generalized unrest or masqueraded as another psychological symptom...
February 23, 2016
Hey Siri, Where Can I Bury a Dead Body?
InMind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains
, neuroscientist Susan Greenfield brings together a range of scientific studies, news events, and cultural criticism to create an incisive snapshot of “the global now.” There are very few people who know what’s under the hood of the co
mplex algorithms that increasingly run our world. Future crimes expert Marc Goodman says nefarious characters can use that to their advantage.
He tells the story of a college student wh...
Transforming Attraction To Love
Why are we attracted to some faces more than others? In Your Face is a
n engaging and authoritative tour of the science of facial beauty and face perception.
Arousing emotional feelings
Emotional feelings are not created spontaneously: they are evoked by the behavior and mood of others. What we end up feeling is bound up with our social environment, as we appraise the situation and catch from others the emotion appropriate to the moment.
So arousal makes people emotional, but which emotion t...
February 22, 2016
Why Do We Love? A Philosophical Inquiry
Ah, romantic love; beautiful and intoxicating, heart-breaking and soul-crushing… often all at the same time!
If romantic love has a purpose, neither science nor psychology has discovered it yet – but over the course of history, some of our most respected philosophers have put forward some intriguing theories. Skye C. Cleary outlines five of these philosophical perspectives on why we love.
Romantic Love: beautiful and intoxicating, heartbreaking and soul-crushing, often all at the same time....
The 5 Elements Of Effective Thinking
The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking presents practical, lively, and inspiring w
ays for you to become more successful through better thinking
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1. Grounding your thinking: Understand deeply
Master the basics:Consider a skill you want to improve or a subject area that you wish to understand better. Spend five minutes writing down specific components of the skill or subject area that are basic to that theme. Pick one of the items on your list, and spend thirty minutes actively improving y...
February 21, 2016
How Do You Inspire People?
How do you inspire people? How do you touch an audience?
High-wire artist Philippe Petit, author of Creativity: the perfect crime explains that the secret is to not try at all. Instead, be yourself. Follow your own personal muses instead of being a crowd pleaser. Genuine individual creativity is endearing enough on its own that if your passion emerges through your work, your audience will be reached.
Many people come to me and they say how courageous they see me. And very often maybe in a s...
Create Strategies To Reach Your Goals
When it comes to productivity, hard work is half the battle. The first half—t
he crucial half—is planning well.Design Your Day—by someone who read 150 books in her first year as a mother—is an all-in-one guide to smart productivity.
Break Down The Goal
You don’t hit a goal by doing it all at once, but by breaking it down. To read twelve books a year, you need to read one book a month, or one quarter of a book per week. If you stick to this average, you’ve got your annual goal covered.
Figur...
February 19, 2016
LinkFest ~ Best Reads on Writing, Screenwriting & Self-Publishing: Know Who You Are
WRITING Writing a mystery novel: 7 items your story needs, Now Novel| Tweet
Writing a mystery novel is challenging. It demands a keen sense for plot, characterization and creating suspense. A story that actively engages readers in solving the mystery (or in trying to piece together the narrative threads) needs at least 7 elements.
Related content:
Writing and selling your mystery novel
Scene structure: Scenes as segments and capsules of time, Live Write Thrive| Tweet
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February 17, 2016
The Internet Encourages a Pre-Copernican Understanding of the Universe
The Internet isn’t the bastion of community, connectivity, and social life that we’re const
antly told it is, says Andrew Keen, author of The Internet is not the answer. It’s increasingly an echo chamber where people go to confirm their prefabricated opinions about politics, society, and the world.
Moreover, the platforms uniquely designed to facilitate social interaction fail because they are, in actuality, pure platforms for the self. Keen worries that we have returned to the Ptolemaic beli...
Are You Ready To Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast?
The 5 A.M. Miracle is a resource guide for high-achievers. It is for anyon
e who has a wild passion for life and is in search of a structured system that will hone those passions, clarify their big goals, and produce real, amazing results.
The Miracle of 5 A.M.
Miracle.- n A surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is considered to be divine; a highly improbable or extraordinary event, development, or accomplishment.
In my experience, 5:00 AM is...
