Posts Tagged ‘Humor’
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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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 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’ve recently come to know that there is a name for what I do, which is always a very (more…)
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Beauty, Brain, Difference, Education, Experience, Growth, Humor, Knowledge, Learning, Perception, Polymath, Proactive, Serendipity, Social conditioning, Society, Specialization, Thinking, Words
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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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Humor was once defined as “distance that approaches”. It is one of the best existing relieves for our tortured and overwhelmed left brain (it is (more…)
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Tags: Brain, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Focus, Games, Growth, Habits, Humor, Introspection, Language, Love, Motivation, Perception, Personal relations, Primitive mind, Thinking, Transcendence
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“There is nothing wrong with me. In fact, I’m a very good boy. I do all the math. I separate color and white clothes before laundry. I can tell when a traffic light is red, a floor slippery or a person angry, thus increasing my owner’s probability of survival. And man, do I enjoy all of it! (more…)
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Tags: Aldous Huxley, Brain, Classification, Creative thinking, Education, Emotions, Humor, Learning, Love, Memory, Perception, Poetry, Subliminal, Thinking
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As a product of a typically non-productive culture (sorry for the tongue twister), I have found a very useful tool for implementing the GTD method in monitoring workflow interruptions. The first thing I noticed was (more…)
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Tags: Books, Buddhism, Creative thinking, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Emerson, Experiments, Focus, GTD, Habits, Humor, Indecision, Lists, Personal productivity, Procrastination, Subliminal, Tasks, Tips, Weekly review, Workflow, Zen
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