Posts Tagged ‘Crisis’
One of the most fascinating books I’ve read recently in the ‘what’s happening to us’ gender is Konrad Lorenz’s Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins
. The book was published in 1974, and one can imagine the author’s (more…)
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Animal psychology, Books, Competition, Crisis, Gender, Interdependence, Konrad Lorenz, Learning, Social conditioning
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Something that really grabbed my attention in Stephen Covey’s ‘The seven habits of the highly effective people’ was the concept of overcompensation. He does not dedicate more than one or two pages to it, but it is such a inspiring fact (more…)
Friday, September 24th, 2010
Tags: Bioenergetics, Biology, Body, Compassion, Competition, Creative thinking, Crisis, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Fun, Goal setting, Hurry, Inspiration, Learning, Leisure, Mental block, Overcompensation, Pain, Personal productivity, Planning, Proactive, Procrastination, Stephen R. Covey
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What annoys and concerns me the most about the current situation is that, in a way, it is only an amplification of a previous state. Socially, I mean. Let me explain.
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Friday, September 17th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Behaviorism, Cliché, Climate change, Communication, Compassion, Consciousness, Crisis, Education, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Gender, Law of fatigue, Media, Perception, Personal relations, Social conditioning, Society, Violence
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“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Beauty, Biology, Body, Climate change, Communication, Compassion, Competition, Conflict solving, Consciousness, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Creativity, Crisis, Difference, Education, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Empathy, Evolution, Globalization, Gratification, Gratitude, Interdependence, Learning, Life, Love, Media, Nature, Personal relations, Proactive, Social conditioning, Society, Teamwork, Transcendence, Violence, Visualization
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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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There were so many times when I wished I was dead in the “perfect” world we had 10 or 15 years ago, that my views on what we now call “the crisis” might have, at least, (more…)
Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Communication, Consumerism, Creativity, Crisis, Difference, Economy, Emotional intelligence, Ethic, Experience, Fatherhood, Fear, Globalization, Gratification, Growth, Habits, Helplessness, Learning, Motivation, Perception, Person, Personal development, Personal relations, Social conditioning, Society, Unconscious
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