Archive for May, 2010
Say you love David Allen… (O.K., say what you want). Long and steep is the road from messy to productive, but gratifications are spread like sweet fruits all along the way. It is not about upgrading; it about growing. Once you get it, Allen’s Getting Things Done system is a very tight tool to use; as he himself states in “Making it all work”, with a delicious lack of false humility, (more…)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Tags: Areas of focus, Books, Calendar, Capture, David Allen, Filing, Focus, GTD, Intuition, Judgement, Learning, Lists, Low level, Notebooks, Organizing, Personal productivity, Productivity, Projects, Tasks, Thinking, Time Management, Workflow, Writing
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When I see a person carrying a suitcase, I try to (more…)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Books, Communication, Compassion, Consciousness, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Fear, Films, Globalization, Gratification, Gratitude, Growth, Hurry, Interdependence, Perception, Poetry, Samuel Butler, Society, Tears, Time, Violence, Walking
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I learned how to write last summer, at the age of 34. I know how to read since my childhood, and all that time I assumed that (more…)
Friday, May 21st, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Biology, Body, Children, Cliché, Difference, Education, Experience, Growth, Interdependence, Learning, Left handed, Nature, Person, Repression, Social conditioning, Society, Teamwork, Writing
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As it was mentioned in previous adventures (for example here or here), I love walking. I love walking even in quite a hostile an environment as a big city. I find it necessary, not only for the body, but as mental hygiene. And by walking (more…)
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Body, Creative thinking, Exercises, Experience, Experiments, Focus, Fun, Games, Gratification, Habits, Hurry, Ideas, Introspection, Learning, Leisure, Nature, Nicanor Parra, Perception, Personal development, Proactive, Serendipity, Social conditioning, Thinking, Thoreau, Time, Walking
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Don’t you even think for a moment that I have given up my practice of writing down the successes of the day. In fact, it gets (more…)
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Beauty, Bioenergetics, Biology, Brain, Capture, Computers, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Exercises, Gratification, Growth, Habits, Happiness, Ideas, Language, Learning, Lists, Motivation, Optimism, Perception, Positivity, Proactive, Society, Tips, Writing
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I used to think of photography as a minor art. In comparison to music or literature, my all-time beloved ones, it appeared to me that photography granted a lower degree of choice to the artist, and was, thus, not that praiseworthy. It made me think of the old joke of the (more…)
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Ageing, Art, Beauty, Cliché, Creative thinking, Creativity, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Family, Growth, Introspection, Learning, Life, Love, Perception, Personal relations, Photography, Primitive mind, Repression, Stories, Subliminal, Time, Unconscious, Visualization, Writing
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The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.
It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Focus, Goal setting, Gratification, Ideas, Imitation, Inspiration, Life, Mind, Notebooks, Perception, Person, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Proactive, Productivity, Reminders, Tasks, Teamwork, Thinking, Time, Time Management, Transcendence, Violence, Writing
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During his interview with Solomon Shang, the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung tells a very revealing story about two patients of him.
The man was of the extroverted type, and the girl was introverted, “so, naturally, (more…)
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Biology, Carl Gustav Jung, Daydreaming, Dreams, Evolution, Experiments, Games, Introspection, Intuition, Memory, Mind, Nature, Perception, Personal relations, Primitive mind, Psychoanalysis, Science, Thinking, Unconscious, Words
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