Posts Tagged ‘Personal relations’
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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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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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One of the main problems you can encounter in teamwork is what is usually called “highly emotional (more…)
Friday, June 11th, 2010
Tags: Absurdity, Communication, Conflict solving, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Family, Goal setting, Interdependence, Leisure, Pedantry, Person, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Repression, Tasks, Violence
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I used to think of photography as a minor art. In comparison to music or literature, my all-time beloved ones, it appeared to me that photography granted a lower degree of choice to the artist, and was, thus, not that praiseworthy. It made me think of the old joke of the (more…)
Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Tags: Admiration, Ageing, Art, Beauty, Cliché, Creative thinking, Creativity, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Family, Growth, Introspection, Learning, Life, Love, Perception, Personal relations, Photography, Primitive mind, Repression, Stories, Subliminal, Time, Unconscious, Visualization, Writing
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The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.
It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)
Friday, May 7th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Consciousness, Creative thinking, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Focus, Goal setting, Gratification, Ideas, Imitation, Inspiration, Life, Mind, Notebooks, Perception, Person, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Proactive, Productivity, Reminders, Tasks, Teamwork, Thinking, Time, Time Management, Transcendence, Violence, 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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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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It is round the minute no. 50 of the concert, when everybody is feeling more friendly, and there is no distinct separation between musician, audience and music played, and those persons who yearned to kiss each other for so long (more…)
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Tags: Art, Beauty, Bioenergetics, Body, Communication, Conflict solving, Creativity, Dancing, Embrace, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Evolution, Experience, Fun, Gratification, Gratitude, Growth, Imitation, Inspiration, Interdependence, Learning, Leisure, Love, Motivation, Music, Perception, Person, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Repression, Shyness, Society, Subliminal, Teamwork, Television, Transcendence, Violence
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One of the parts of the Getting Things Done methodology that I found most difficult to apply at first was writing down “purposes and principles” for each project (more…)
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Admiration, Areas of focus, Books, Conflict solving, David Allen, Difference, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Exercises, Fear, Focus, Goal setting, Growth, GTD, Habits, Imitation, Inspiration, Life, Love, Outlining, Perception, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Planning, Proactive, Productivity, Repression, Social conditioning, Tips, Transcendence, Violence, Weekly review
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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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