Posts Tagged ‘Language’
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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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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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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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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Bud Hennekes recently posted about his intention to eliminate curses from his vocabulary, for which he has announced that he will hold a “30 day trial” and invites other people to join him.
I didn’t exactly get if such trial intends (more…)
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Tags: Blogging, Children, Communication, Conflict solving, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Exercises, Experience, Experiments, Fear, Goal setting, Habits, Introspection, Language, Learning, Personal development, Personal relations, Social conditioning, Subliminal, Tips, Violence
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In these days I am engaged with the passionate task of drawing some detailed vision boards. Some subtle but very relevant effects have appeared already (more…)
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Tags: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Brain, Creative thinking, Focus, Ideas, Inspiration, Language, Law of attraction, Motivation, Paradox of choice, Perception, Personal development, Personal productivity, Planning, Projects, Reminders, Self-esteem, Subliminal, Thinking, Tips, Vision board, Visualization, Writing
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Here is a series of sentences used to cope with negative stances, by taking them to a different level. Maybe for some of you they are very basic (all of them are a must in areas like conflict solving, and probably others like sales techniques)… but I think (more…)
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Tags: Books, Borges, Communication, Conflict solving, Experience, Fear, Growth, Helena Cornelius and Shoshana Faire, Language, Memory, Mind, Motivation, Personal relations, Proactive, Projects, Reminders, Subliminal, Teamwork, Tips, Violence
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I want to share with you a wonderful quote from the Dhammapada, one of the traditional Buddhist texts. I am not looking for converts of any kind here, firstly because Buddhism is not a theocentric but an anthropocentric system of belief, so it does not (more…)
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Beauty, Books, Brain, Buddhism, Creative thinking, Dhammapada, Education, Emotional intelligence, Exercises, Experience, Focus, Growth, Habits, Inspiration, Language, Love, Mind, Pascal, Poetry, Reminders, Social conditioning, Thinking, Tips, 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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