Posts Tagged ‘Tips’
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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The problem
GTD fan as I am, I usually put a strong brain effort at the planning stage of a project, so I can later enter ‘executive mode’, following my self-instructions in a Robocop-like manner. Working like that guarantees (more…)
Friday, August 20th, 2010
Tags: Books, Classification, Computers, Creative thinking, David Allen, Entitling, GTD, Learning, Low level, Organizing, Outlining, Personal productivity, Planning, Thinking, Tips
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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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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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I try to be optimistic, I really do, but obviously, being interdependent as humans are, one cannot pretend to be almighty and fully detach oneself from (more…)
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Analogy, Consciousness, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Exercises, Fear, Ideas, Law of fatigue, Learning, Motivation, Optimism, Perception, Poetry, Reminders, Social conditioning, Society, Suicide, Tips, Violence, Visualization, Walking, Words
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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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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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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 other day I was having a walk in the street when I started to experience very disgusting feelings. During the previous couple of days or so, I had been able to calm down those negative feelings by (more…)
Friday, April 9th, 2010
Tags: Beauty, Brain, Breathing, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Exercises, Experience, Experiments, Fear, Focus, Games, Heuristics, Ideas, Inspiration, Jill Bolte Taylor, Law of fatigue, Memory, Mental block, Motivation, Outlining, Perception, Personal development, Personal relations, Proactive, Tips, Violence, Walking
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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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