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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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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Gender is one of those issues that has been so shitted that it is difficult to know how to tackle. I came the other day across this test for films, which makes for a great start. (more…)
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Blogging, Creative thinking, Difference, Education, Exercises, Experience, Films, Gender, Ideas, Inspiration, Learning, Social conditioning, Society, Stories, Subliminal, Tips
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Most of us won’t make it, and, even those of us who do -after so many years-, might as well be sacrificed during the final celebrations to honor the power of the Pharaoh. (more…)
Tuesday, June 15th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Communication, Ego, Focus, Gratification, Inspiration, Interdependence, Learning, Motivation, Optimism, Poetry, Proactive, Social conditioning, Stories, Teamwork, Transcendence
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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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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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I’ll admit it: everything I do, I do it for my fiction. I honor writing as the art with the biggest powers, when considering its effects, and the degree of intimacy, elevation and sometimes “possession” it grants (writing, in its finest hour, becomes invisible, the words stop being “black boxes” with a meaning inside and become something similar to music). (more…)
Friday, March 5th, 2010
Tags: Books, Capture, Classification, Creative thinking, Ernest Hemingway, Experience, Focus, GTD, Habits, Henrik Ibsen, Ideas, Inspiration, Language, Learning, Motivation, Notebooks, Organizing, Poetry, Rafael Alberti, Reading strategies, Reminders, Social conditioning, Stories, Subliminal, Thinking, Time Management, Tips, Transcendence, Writing
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Only extreme ignorance or arrogance can lead to believe that one fully controls one’s behavior. To begin with, we are alive beings, and we don’t know what life is: scientists can describe its parts or modify its working, but they cannot explain life. What I am going to discuss here is Carl Gustav Jung’s basic ideas on the unconscious, and you may agree with them or not, but one fact is already undeniable: (more…)
Friday, February 26th, 2010
Tags: Books, Carl Gustav Jung, Dreams, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Evolution, Growth, Language, Life, Mind, Nature, Perception, Personal relations, Primitive mind, Psychoanalysis, Science, Sigmund Freud, Stories, Subliminal, Thinking, Unconscious
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The mystery
Not very uncommon: there was this silly commercial I used to ran into every time I watched TV, a commercial that I particularly hated. I thought it was one of the silliest commercials of the decade, which is a lot to say, and every time I recognized it, I had this “oh no, here it comes again” sensation, knowing that I was going to waste the next twenty seconds of my life with an idiotic story that made me cringe. (more…)
Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Tags: Acceptance, Advertising, Children, Embrace, Emotions, Growth, Humor, Learning, Love, Mind, Rejection, Repression, Social conditioning, Stories, Subliminal
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