Posts Tagged ‘Social conditioning’
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I think we all have them. Those pieces of clothing which have gone with us through the ages, that favorite t-shirt that is not black anymore but it’s comfortable (more…)
Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Addiction, Behaviorism, Communication, Compassion, Difference, Emotional intelligence, Empathy, Ethic, Experience, Family, Happiness, Humor, Inspiration, Learning, Life, Low level, Luck, Pain, Person, Personal relations, Procrastination, Social conditioning, Violence
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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Ageing, Beauty, Biology, Breathing, Charles Darwin, Cliché, Communication, Compassion, Conflict solving, Creative thinking, Creativity, Daydreaming, Dreams, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Fear, Gratitude, Hurry, Inspiration, Learning, Leisure, Life, Motivation, Nature, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Proactive, Productivity, Reminders, Social conditioning, Society, Time Management, Violence, Walking
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I learned this sentence while looking for some information on empathy. I did not believe much in it at first, it looked kind of naive to me. Here’s how it was supposed to work: (more…)
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Tags: Communication, Competition, Conflict solving, Empathy, Exercises, Experience, Humor, Inspiration, Judgement, Language, Love, Perception, Personal relations, Proactive, Social conditioning, Teamwork, Tips, Words
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Let’s put the authority argument first, for they still seem to keep some value in this age of mobs taking the power. The poet Paul Valéry, refined human being and one of my literary heroes, affirmed in his diaries that museums seemed to him disgusting (more…)
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Art, Beauty, Books, Consumerism, Creativity, Daydreaming, Leisure, Paul Valéry, Social conditioning, Subliminal
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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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Behaviorism (brief reminder-please skip the whole paragraph if you know about the term): the Russian Ivan Pavlov made a famous experiment. First he showed a piece of meat to a group of dogs while (more…)
Friday, August 6th, 2010
Tags: Behaviorism, Biology, Body, Brain, Computers, Consciousness, Experiments, Learning, Mind, Pain, Pavlov, Perception, Science, Skinner, Social conditioning, Videogames, Violence, Visualization
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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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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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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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