Merce Cardus's Blog, page 98
May 6, 2015
Everyone Is An Expert (On Something)
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Everyone is an Expertaddresses four questions:
1. How to I get more traffic to my site?
2. How do I find what I’m looking for on the web?
3. Where are the experts?
4. Can I be one?
A thesis
I believe when you go online, you don’t search. You don’t even find. Instead, you are usually on a quest to make sense. That’s the goal of most visits to Google or Yahoo! or blogs or the Wikipedia.
How do you make sense of the noise that’s coming at you from all dire...
Ayn Rand on Selfishness
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The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
~AYN RAND, author ofThe Virtue of Selfishness
Morality and selfishness are not opposites
Morality and selfishness sound like opposites, but not according to the Russian-American novelist of the 1950s, Ayn Rand.She thought that it was obvious that behavior rationally meant puting your own interest first. You actually have a duty to be selfish.
Altruism or self-sacrifice are imm...
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Nurture Effect
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Quote of the day
Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.
~ANTHONY BIGLAN, author ofThe Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World
HEALTH
How smaller portions encourage us to savour our food, Research Digest| Tweet
Have you ever been to an exclusive restaurant that serves tiny portions and found that, in spite of the...
May 5, 2015
Become An Influencer
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I was going to buy a copy of The Power of the Positive Thinking, and thenI thought: What the hell good that do?
~RONNIE SHAKES
Influencer : The Power to Change Anything
is about learning to influence because:
An INFLUENCER leads change.
An INFLUENCER replaces bad behaviors with powerful new skills.
An INFLUENCER makes things happen.
Find vital behaviors
Start with vital behaviors. There’s no use putting together several complex techniques all aimed at th...
May 4, 2015
Manhood: The Emotional Lives of Men
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In The Male Brain
,Dr. Louann Brizendine, turns her attention to the male brain, showing how, through every phase of life, the “male reality” is fundamentally different from the female one.
How the minor-neuron system activates
Research has suggested that our brains have two emotional systems that work simultaneously: the minor-neuron system, or MNS, and the temporal-panetal junction system, or TPJ. Males seem to use one system more, and females s...
The Many Meanings of Michelangelo’s Statue of David
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There was a giant in the city of Florence. It had been there for n
early forty years. And no one knew what to do about it. The giant was an enormous block of stone–marble, to be exact. It stood three times as tall as any man in the city. It was the color of cream. And it was a troublemaker.
~JANE SUTCLIFFE, author of Stone Giant: Michelangelo’s David and How He Came to Be
When we think of classic works of art, the most common setting we imagine th...
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: The Happiness Industry
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Quote of the dayHappiness science has achieved the influence because it promises to provide the longed-for solution.
~WILLIAM DAVIES, author ofThe Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
SELF-IMPROVEMENT
The enduring hunt for personal value, NYT| Tweet
Why does Michael Phelps keep returning to a brutal training regimen in the pool, long after he’s achieved any imaginable accolade as a swimmer?
May 1, 2015
8 Techniques To Speed The Story Along
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Scene & Structure
helps you to craft compelling scenes that move the reade
r, moment by moment, towards the story’s resolution.
You can control the pace of your novel at every turn by how you handle your scenes and sequels. If it seems to be going too slowly, you need to build your scenes and possible trim or cut our some of your sequels. On the other hand, if it seems to be going to fast, you need to do the opposite: Trim or cut some of y...
The Darkest Truth About Love
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If you love a flower, don’t pick it up.
Because if you pick it up it dies and it ceases to be what you love.
So if you love a flower, let it be.
Love is not about possession.
Love is about appreciation.~OSHO, author of Love, Freedom, Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships
1. You will never find the right person.
Such a creature doesn’t exist.
2. You are irredeemably alone.
You will not be understood.
The moments of love were an illusion.
There...
WEEDEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Dressing Up The Brain
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Quote of the dayClothing is an extension of who we are. Much like a turtle with its shell, we tell the world the who, the what, the where, and the when of our lives by what we wear on our backs. Your clothes reveal more about your internal life than you may realize.
~JENNIFER BAUMGARTNER, author ofYou Are What You Wear: What Your Clothes Reveal About You
CREATIVITY
Five habits of creative people, FastCo| Tweet
There is no secret trick to becomin...
