Posts Tagged ‘Biology’
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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Beauty, Biology, Breathing, Charles Darwin, Cliché, Communication, Compassion, Conflict solving, Creative thinking, Creativity, Daydreaming, Dreams, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Gratitude, Hurry, Inspiration, Learning, Leisure, Life, Motivation, Nature, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Proactive, Productivity, Reminders, Social conditioning, Society, Time Management, Violence, Walking
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Life is amazing when you think of it. Take what you’re really seeing right now, for instance. Try to abandon frontal vision for a minute and embrace the whole picture. You’ll have noticed that, above what you’re seeing, starts a black area, the place where (more…)
Friday, August 13th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Beauty, Biology, Body, Brain, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Ego, Exercises, Learning, Life, Meditation, Motivation, Perception, Poetry, Transcendence, Visualization
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Behaviorism (brief reminder-please skip the whole paragraph if you know about the term): the Russian Ivan Pavlov made a famous experiment. First he showed a piece of meat to a group of dogs while (more…)
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Tags: Behaviorism, Biology, Body, Brain, Computers, Consciousness, Experiments, Learning, Mind, Pain, Pavlov, Perception, Science, Skinner, Social conditioning, Videogames, Violence, Visualization
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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 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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I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after the shower, when I (more…)
Friday, June 18th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Biology, Body, Books, Capture, Children, Consciousness, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fear, GTD, Helplessness, Humor, Introspection, Intuition, Labeling, Language, Learning, Life, Mental block, Mind, Motivation, Nature, Notebooks, Organizing, Pain, Perception, Personal development, Personal productivity, Positivity, Primitive mind, Rejection, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society
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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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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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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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I write this post after having heard this same cliché from the lips of several people, belonging to areas of the academic spectrum that range from illiteracy to PhD. In all cases, it exuded that feeling of filthy simplicity that I hate the most, and it’s my job to eradicate clichés and try to replace them with thinking. Here is the troublemaker: (more…)
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
Tags: Biology, Brain, Cliché, Education, Growth, Habits, Language, Media, Mind, Motivation, Perception, Poetry, Subliminal
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