"There are two ways in which we can develop and manipulate mental concepts to represent observed reality: we can start from a comprehensive whole and break it down to its particulars or we can start with the particulars and build towards a comprehensive whole.[28,24] Saying it another way, but in a related sense, we can … Continue reading Destruction & Creation
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How the Dalai Lama Spends His Day
0300: Wake0300-0330: Shower & Hygiene0330-0500: Prayers, meditations and prostrations0500-0530: Walk0530-0600: Breakfast of hot porridge, barley powder, bread with preserves and tea and listens to BBC World News0600-0900: Meditation and prayers0930-1130: Reading Buddhist texts1130-1230: Lunch, vegetarian at home and whatever is served while away1230-1530: Work, audiences and interviews1530-1700: Talk with audience1700-1730: Tea1730-1900: Prayers and meditation1900: Sleep … Continue reading How the Dalai Lama Spends His Day
Zuihitsu: 2021-02
Collecting these little ideas has become a major focus. Here's this month's installment. Art allows us to see through the eyes of others.If you can't be X all day, try being X for the next second, minute or hour.Understanding and believing are not the same thing.—Gertrude SteinFailure will never stand in the way of success … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-02
Judgmental About Your Drink Order
"The secret truth of the martini is that ordering it up is for dorks. Order that shit on the rocks and have your goddamn drink without having to balance it on a pancake. I’m sure there are people who think they look more sophisticated drinking martini glass drinks, but they’re wrong. Almost spilling your drink … Continue reading Judgmental About Your Drink Order
Meritocracy, Intelligence & Education
"...we need to dismantle meritocracy.DeBoer is skeptical of "equality of opportunity". Even if you solve racism, sexism, poverty, and many other things that DeBoer repeatedly reminds us have not been solved, you'll just get people succeeding or failing based on natural talent......One one level, the titular Cult Of Smart is just the belief that enough … Continue reading Meritocracy, Intelligence & Education
The Burrito Test
"The anti-psychiatric-abuse community has invented the 'Burrito Test' - if a place won't let you microwave a burrito without asking permission, it's an institution. Doesn't matter if the name is "Center For Flourishing" or whatever and the aides are social workers in street clothes instead of nurses in scrubs - if it doesn't pass the … Continue reading The Burrito Test
Empathy vs. Sympathy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw Empathy is feeling with people. Perspective takingStaying out of judgmentRecognizing emotion in other peopleCommunicating A response doesn't make something better but a connection can.
Being a Creator, Craig Mod
This is a really interesting discussion of how one man created a business using a subscription model combined with discounts for the finished work for subscribers. There's much to think about in this discussion. If this is of any interest to you, I'd read the whole thing and the previous year's as well. He talks … Continue reading Being a Creator, Craig Mod
The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
"For an effect of human psychology to be real, it cannot be rigorously replicated using random noise. If the human brain was predisposed to choose heads when a coin is flipped, you could compare this to random predictions (heads or tails) made by a computer and see the bias. A human would call more heads … Continue reading The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
Zuihitsu: 2021-01
Collecting these little sayings has turned into a major focus of mine. I'm going to aim for a year of monthly posts of them. It’s always new and astonishing when it’s yours.The center defines something differently than the periphery."Act with zest one day at a time, and never mind the rest." –Ode 11 of Book I … Continue reading Zuihitsu: 2021-01
The Awkwardness Principle
"“The practices that carry the greatest potential for transformative change are usually counter-instinctual.” I take him to mean that if you’re trying to get better at life in some way – more patient, or better at listening, or less prone to procrastination or anxiety or self-sabotage – the necessary actions are pretty much guaranteed not … Continue reading The Awkwardness Principle
World Wisdom Map
"The World Wisdom Map is a unique project to document the life lessons and stories of people from each of the 195 countries in the world. This consciousness project combines visual, and wisdom anthropology that exists in the world and further sparks awareness about the diversity of lifestyles, as well as the coping mechanism that … Continue reading World Wisdom Map
How To Have A Good Conversation
"1. Set up the conversational premise so you, and the other person, have easy outs, if it is not a good match.2. Don’t assume the conversation will last an hour. Rapidly signal what kind of conversation you are good at, if anything going overboard in the preferred direction, again to establish whether the proper conversational … Continue reading How To Have A Good Conversation
The Illusion of Certainty
"Scientists sometimes resist new ideas and hang on to old ones longer than they should, but the real problem is the failure of the public to understand that the possibility of correction or disproof is a strength and not a weakness......Most people are not comfortable with the notion that knowledge can be authoritative, can call … Continue reading The Illusion of Certainty
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