Merce Cardus's Blog, page 92
June 11, 2015
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing and Better Reading: Aging Cheese
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The number of weeks or months a cheese is aged depends on the variety and what the cheesemaker, affineur, wholesaler, or retailer wishes to accomplish. The longer a cheese is allowed to sit before it is offered for sale, the more flavor compounds are formed, and the more the texture changes.
~MICHAEL H. TUNICK, author ofThe Science of Cheese
WRITING & SCREENWRITING
Finding your mythic theme, Writer Unboxed | TweetDespite the ubiquity of myth in...
June 10, 2015
Learning Economics From Online Dating
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Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I Learned from Online Datingis about conquering the dating market—from an economist’s point of view.
Match.com and the men listed ‘separated’
By the time I joined Match.com, I was divorced in every way except the legal one. So, when I posted a profile on Match.com, I listed myself as ‘separated,’ and I wrote a simple, honest and incredibly naive description of myself in which I explained that I was...
Whose Orders Are You Following?
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Organization expert Carson Tate, author ofWork Simply: Embracing the Power of Your Personal Productivity Stylesuggests taking a good hard look at all the things you assume you “should” do and question why they’re so important. By seeing beyond the veneer of our “shoulds,” we can better understand when it’s best to say, “Yes,” and when it benefits us to say, “No.”
The shoulds
So often for many of us there are these scripts or these tapes that are goin...
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing, and Better Living: The Problem With Patterns
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We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.
~RAY KURZWELL, author ofHow to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed
WRITING & SCREENWRITING
The only thing you need to know about writing strong female characters, HWBA | TweetAn issue we hear a lot about these days is that of strong female characters. A lot of people argue that strong female char...
June 9, 2015
Putting The Future On Sale: The Economics Of Instant Gratification
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Based on Stanford University psychologist Kelly McGonigal’s wildly popular c
ourse “The Science of Willpower,The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
is the first book to explain the new science of self-control and how it can be harnessed to improve our health, happiness, and productivity.
Delay discounting
Economists call this delay discounting—the longer you have to wait...
The 3 A’s To Leading A Life That’s Truly Awesome
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Sometimes it’s easy to forget the things that make us smile.
Sometimes it’s tempting to feel the world is falling apart.
But awesome things are all around us:The Book of Awesome
Neil Pasricha’s blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life’s simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that’s truly awesome.
ONE: ATTITUDE
Look, we’re all going to get lumps...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing, Self-publishing and Better Living: Lying
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Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
~SISSELA BOK, author ofLying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
WRITING & SCREENWRITING
5 Writing rules that work no matter what you’re writing, The Write Practice| TweetShort stories. Marketing copy. News reporting. Poetry. Business proposals. Literary fiction. Technical writing. Blogs. Advertising.T...
June 8, 2015
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happinessis about aforgotten book by one of history’s greatest thinkers that reveals the surprising connections between happiness, virtue, fame, and fortune.
What is the good life?
Religion, philosophy, and modern self-help books grapple with the question, but the answer is elu...
June 7, 2015
Learnings From A Tale Of Mental Illness
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This monster is not hiding under our beds, it’s hiding in our biology.
Meeting The Monster: Surving and Thriving when Mental Illness attacks a Loved One
is a mother’s journey on her son’s mental illness. She tells her story, hoping it will:
• shine a warm light into other people’s darkness;
• empower others to understand they are far more resilient and capable than they may feel they are;
• help others believe a mental illness experience does NOT de...
How Many Smells Can You Smell?
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The fragance itself was, and still is, a radical surprise. A perfume, like the timbre of a voice, can say something quite independent of the words actually spoken.
~LUCA TURIN, author of The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell
The sense of smell is probably nature’s oldest. We can trace its odoriferous origins back to the single-celled organisms who sampled Earth’s most primordial perfumes.Humans depend m...
