Posts Tagged ‘Globalization’
“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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The house has been on fire ever since it was built. Maybe even while it was being built. It has become a tradition to think of the house in connection with flames, just like one cannot conceive a piano without keys or (more…)
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Analogy, Blogging, Compassion, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Ethic, Globalization, History, Interdependence, Internet, Learning, Media, Poetry, Social conditioning, Society, Stories, Subliminal
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Here’s a story about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. A few summers ago, I was spending some days with my family at the beach. One morning, I went to the balcony and found certain relative of mine, not very intelligent, who was (more…)
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
Tags: Compassion, Creative thinking, Difference, Education, Fun, Globalization, Growth, Guilt, History, Information, Learning, Memory, Notebooks, Passion, Personal relations, Sickness, Social conditioning, Society, Stories, Thinking, Tips
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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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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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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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Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Albert Camus, Art, Beauty, Blogging, Books, Communication, Consumerism, Education, Focus, Globalization, Goethe, Gratitude, Growth, Habits, Hurry, Imitation, Information, Introspection, Language, Learning, Music, Reading strategies, Social conditioning, Stories, Subliminal, Thinking, Tips
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The advent of Internet, the changes it has and is forcing in a very short little time, has been a shock. A positive one, maybe, but still a shock. It is not new, though: I still remember my first toying around with an 8-bit computer, in those days when computers were isolated one from another. That tiny fever was the seed of what we have now. But what is it that keeps us so hooked on computers? And where to set the limit between proper use and orgy?
It is (more…)
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Tags: Absurdity, Addiction, Blogging, Brain, Climate change, Computers, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Evolution, Focus, Freak, Globalization, Habits, Information, Language, Life, Motivation, Multitasking, Perception, Personal relations, Proactive, Teamwork, Transcendence
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Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.
We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Tags: Advertising, Albert Camus, Beauty, Books, Carl Gustav Jung, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Difference, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Freak, Globalization, Growth, Habits, Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Learning, Mind, Motivation, Music, Originality, Ortega y Gasset, Perception, Person, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Social conditioning, Subliminal, T.S. Eliot, Transcendence
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