Posts Tagged ‘Violence’
“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Tags: Acceptance, Adaptation, Beauty, Biology, Body, Climate change, Communication, Compassion, Competition, Conflict solving, Consciousness, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Creativity, Crisis, Difference, Education, Ego, Emotional intelligence, Empathy, Evolution, Globalization, Gratification, Gratitude, Interdependence, Learning, Life, Love, Media, Nature, Personal relations, Proactive, Social conditioning, Society, Teamwork, Transcendence, Violence, Visualization
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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 am through with it. I wonder which sick minds could conceive that I am in charge of this world, and how such a nonsensical idea can have become so popular. I cannot stand the pressure anymore, (more…)
Friday, August 27th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Brain, Cliché, Consciousness, Creativity, Ethic, Focus, Humor, Labeling, Learning, Metaphor, Passion, Planning, Specialization, Stories, Violence
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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 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 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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When I see a person carrying a suitcase, I try to (more…)
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Tags: Adaptation, Books, Communication, Compassion, Consciousness, Difference, Emotions, Experience, Fear, Films, Globalization, Gratification, Gratitude, Growth, Hurry, Interdependence, Perception, Poetry, Samuel Butler, Society, Tears, Time, Violence, Walking
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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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