Archive for July, 2010
There is nothing more loathsome in films than those stories where everything intends to be “clockwork-like”, and characters are just puppets to make the story happen. (more…)
Friday, July 30th, 2010
Tags: Art, Beauty, Brain, Communication, Consumerism, Creativity, Films, Fun, Growth, Habits, Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Interdependence, Poetry, Social conditioning, Specialization, Stories
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A short remembrance from one of my latest sentimental relations, and what I learned from it. All in all, just a resource to think aloud about one of those issues (more…)
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Biology, Books, Communication, Compassion, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Fear, Films, Gender, Happiness, Humor, Interdependence, Learning, Love, Mind, Personal development, Personal relations, Rejection, Social conditioning, Society, Sophocles
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I have recently noticed that I read some pages from a book every day, very few, but it has spontaneously become a sort of a steady habit, and, besides, it is quality reading, because (more…)
Friday, July 23rd, 2010
Tags: Blogging, Books, Emotional intelligence, Habits, Happiness, Learning, Lists, Pareto, Richard Koch
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The correct adoption of the GTD methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Books, Capture, Creative thinking, Creativity, David Allen, Films, Growth, GTD, Happiness, Inspiration, Learning, Life, Personal development, Personal productivity, Planning, Poetry, Transcendence, Weekly review, Workflow
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It always happens as a surprising yet pleasant accident: I suddenly find myself interconnecting fields that have very little or nothing in common. I cheer up my 80 years old aunt using (more…)
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Tags: Books, Brain, Communication, Creative thinking, D'Annunzio, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Happiness, Humor, Ideas, Interdependence, Internet, Language, Motivation, Poetry, Society, Transcendence, Virgil, Words
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The other day I saw ‘Misery’; it was one of those classic films that by some reason you miss when in theaters, and which always feel like finding one more french fry in the box when you (more…)
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Ageing, Creative thinking, Experience, Films, Fun, Gratitude, Growth, Humor, Inspiration, Intuition, Learning, Music, Poetry, Serendipity, Stories, Transcendence, Words
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I learned the fact that our planet is doomed in 2006. (It’s alright if you don’t trust Al Gore, a politician after all. But think about James Lovelock, who has devoted his whole life to Mother Earth, only to discover that we have taken it to an irreversible coma. Or Stephen Hawkins, who, (more…)
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Beauty, Biology, Climate change, Consciousness, Crisis, Difference, Economy, Ethic, Fear, Growth, Happiness, James Lovelock, Life, Motivation, Nature, Optimism, Perception, Primitive mind, Proactive, Social conditioning, Stephen Hawking, Suicide, Transcendence
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Here’s an original suggestion for thinking outside the box: how about using a different search engine? It makes all sense of the world, from the point of view of a computer being an extension of one’s own brain. O.K., so Google is the best one, its search algorithms combine (more…)
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Blogging, Brain, Communication, Competition, Computers, Creative thinking, Difference, Evolution, Experience, Fun, Growth, Habits, Internet, Invention, Labeling, Learning, Leisure, Mouseless, Originality, Passion, Perception, Personal productivity, Proactive, Productivity, Rejection, Serendipity, Social conditioning, Thinking, Words
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Here is a trick mind plays very often on us, and on which I comment for the sake of those who, like me, are engaged with their own internal development and rise of consciousness. If I talk about it, abandoning all kind of embarrassment, is not because (more…)
Friday, July 2nd, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Albert Camus, Books, Consciousness, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Ethic, Experience, Globalization, Guilt, Indecision, Interdependence, Learning, Mind, Ozzy Osbourne, Pain, Perception, Personal relations, Proactive, Rejection, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society, Subliminal, Violence
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