No act of kindness haunts me with regret. Moments when I have offered less torture me.]]>
- Darin L. Hammond
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
- Charles Darwin
Defining yourself accurately will help you to create realistic goals that are profitable. Yes, you are a human animal, and this is high praise - you are the highest evolved creature on planet earth. You have the power to change your environment with small improvements that build over time.
Japanese companies created a management concept called Kaizen. The concept of Kaizen is to make small continuous changes and it includes everyone from the CEO to the janitors. The idea is that every aspect of your business can and should be improved.
- Gladys Edmunds
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you, and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. ... Weâve got to make the small things unforgettable.
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âThe artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.â
â Steven Pressfield
Writing requires constant hard work and learning from life experience to achieve slow painful success. As soon as you suspect that you are a decent writer, you realize that the real work is beginning.
Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.
- Maya Angelou
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Most people are not so superficial that they will not follow someone because they're ugly. Humans don't care about appearances as much as they value social relationships - friendships - and generating virtual ones is a difficult task: impossible without a offering a real photo of yourself.
Social media sites provide places where people can create the face they want the world to see. Creating a profile allows a person to decide exactly what image to present to others. For some people, this can lead to a near-obsession. This could reflect a personâs self-esteem, according to one study.
- MARISSA MALDONADO
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Our highest evolved human capacity is to feel the pleasure, pain, and suffering of other human beings, and we could not be highly social animals without the tiny the mirror neurons that put us inside the brains of other people. We just would not be human.
The implication is quite significant. Iacoboni states that our natural impulse as human beings is to create an immediate emotional connection with people. Our natural impulse is to empathize with others. However, when a label is use to identify someone as belonging to a different group, the brain shuts down the natural response of seeking to emotionally connect.
We human beings are much more similar than we think, according to Dr. Iacoboni.
And since we desire to be good toward the people we connect with, then that means being good is an innate tendency.
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"There are many spammers in the world today that enjoy watching others be taken in and exploited by computer hacks with no sense of morality and who practice vice with impunity, impinging our security."
A new form of slippery spammer is targeting Google's customers, causing minor security disruptions, without a clear intent.
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"Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still." |
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"from viewing literacy as a simple process of acquiring basic cognitive skills, to using these skills in ways that contribute to socio-economic development, to developing the capacity for social awareness and critical reflection as a basis for personal and social change."
"Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy." These words sank deep into my heart, stirred up sentiments within that lay slumbering, and called into existence an entirely new train of thought. It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty--to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man."
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To all the other dreamers out there, don't ever stop or let the world's negativity disenchant you or your spirit. If you surround yourself with love and the right people, anything is possible.
Adam Green
Websites that insight fear and insecurity to sell a product reveal their empty values and the desire to make a sell at all costs - even making you feel bad. You are better than these sites and must rise above them with positivity and optimism. Avoid the tantalizing headlines and spread positivity.
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
Ernest Hemingway
You experience pain when ideas come slowly or not at all, when the concepts are great but you can't put them on the page, and when deep thinking is required. So, writing is usually difficult, and it makes sense because it is the most complex and advanced activities our human brains can perform. Authors live in the most intelligent and hardworking spots of the mind.
Researchers at Yale recently identified that two areas in your brain associated with pain, the anterior cingulate cortex and insula, light up in response to letting go of items you own and feel a connection towards.
Mikael Cho
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âI write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.â
â Flannery O'Connor
Although self-restriction can often boost creativity, the Harvard study shows that external restrictions are almost always a bad thing for creative thinking. This includes subtle language use that deters creativity, such as bosses claiming âWe do things by the book around here,â or group members implicitly communicating that new ideas are not welcome.
Gregory Ciotti
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs
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Get ready for hybrid thinking
Two hundred million years ago, our mammal ancestors developed a new brain feature: the neocortex. This stamp-sized piece of tissue (wrapped around a brain the size of a walnut) is the key to what humanity has become. Now, futurist Ray Kurzweil suggests, we should get ready for the next big leap in brain power, as we tap into the computing power in the cloud.
Ray Kurzweil
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Toni MorrisonFrom The Bluest Eye | Maya Angelou'Still I Rise' |
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4 Blog Tools to Get Your Articles In Front of More Blog Readers
Do you want more blog readers?
Are you looking for creative tools to increase your exposure?
When people share your blog content with friends, they help build your readership.
Stan Smith
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I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. | It appears evident, then, that there is a distinct limit, as regards length, to all works of literary art—the limit of a single sitting ... it is clear that the brevity must be in direct ratio of the intensity of the intended effect. |
In the end, their argument is trivial. The fact that you read and write daily is all important. Your brain needs it!
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Leaving aside degenerative brain disease, your brain never loses the ability to learn and change because it’s effectively plastic and constantly rewiring itself.
... It ‘s a self development urban myth that we only use 10% of our brain. We use it all and if you don’t believe me cut a bit out and see what happens.
You are an incredible evolutionary product, having adapted and changed for millions of years. And, your evolution is not complete until the end of your life. You are capable of performing a task that no other thing in the universe can: You are able think about who you are to discover and change your self-identity. Regardless of your age, you are not stuck, and your brain is always changing.
... a personal template for understanding what it is that makes me tick and what the necessary elements are for me to remain on center. Those elements are spiritual practice, Yoga and martial arts and the relationships with which I surround myself - specifically, my primary love relationship. When any or all of those things are not nurtured or cultivated, I am neither nurtured, nor self-nurturing, and can lose myself in the chaos of my own anxiety and sense of disconnect. I get pulled off my center. How does this exercise work for you?
Michael J. Formica, MS, MA, EdM
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The ambition, the drive, the wanting to be the center of attention, the wanting to succeed... They're all inside me somewhere. | I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future. |
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(a) sitting in an upright posture with legs crossed and gaze lowered,
(b) distinguishing between naturally arising thoughts and elaborated thinking,
(c) minimizing the distracting quality of past and future concerns by reframing them as mental projections occurring in the present,
(d) using the breath as an anchor for attention during meditation,
(e) repeatedly counting up to 21 consecutive exhalations, and
(f ) allowing the mind to rest naturally rather than trying to suppress the occurrence of thoughts.
My strong belief - in being in blogging before Twitter - is that in trying to create more information out there, in trying to create the democratization of media in general, is that the more voices there are out there then the likelihood is that the truth bubbles up to the top. | The first thing you learn when you're blogging is that people are one click away from leaving you. So you've got to get to the point, you can't waste people's time, you've got to give them some value for their limited attention span. |
We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. "Mimeme" comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like "gene." I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. (192)
Mindful awareness has shown me that stillness, the deeper space inside oneself that is away from all of the emotions, the peaceful space that watches. I try to bring mindfulness to all I do, and the present moment is always my priority.
Mindfulness has helped me enjoy the creative impulse rather than try to block it with tension and a compulsion to be brilliant. It has helped show me that simply waking up in the morning, and being alive, is a wonderful gift.
Think less. The kind of writing you want to do does not come from contemplation or analysis, not from self-judgment or second-guessing. It comes by itself when you stare blank-headed at a blank page.
Preparation (individual study to focus your mind on the problem and explore its dimensions)
Incubation (the problem enters your unconscious mind and nothing appears to be happening externally)
Intimation (you get a “feeling” that a solution is on the way)
Illumination (your creative idea moves from preconscious processing to conscious awareness)
Verification (your idea is consciously verified, expanded upon, and then executed)
Play is the highest form of research.
Albert Einstein
What do most Nobel Laureates, innovative entrepreneurs, artists and performers, well-adjusted children, happy couples and families, and the most successfully adapted mammals have in common? They play enthusiastically throughout their lives.
Stuart Brown, Institute of Play
A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are -- oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language.
Counting these out, what is left is Art. I think we must all admit that.
“It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray, and see if I couldn't try to quit being the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down. But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldn't they? It warn't no use to try and hide it from Him. Nor from ME, neither. I knowed very well why they wouldn't come. It was because my heart warn't right; it was because I warn't square; it was because I was playing double. I was letting ON to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth SAY I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie--I found that out.
So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I'll go and write the letter--and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:
Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.
HUCK FINN.
I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking--thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a-floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I'd see him standing my watch on top of his'n, 'stead of calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one he's got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:
"All right, then, I'll GO to hell"--and tore it up.”
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Listening To Podcasts To Improve Your Online BusinessListening to podcasts over the last two months has helped me improve this blog, our social media marketing and almost every aspect of my online business.
Brian D. Hawkins
Men determine what is beautiful in women. Just as it is women that determine what is "hot" or "sexy" in men.
The key issue seems to be that men accept this binary reality whereas women (primarily in the form of reality denying feminists) don't. They wish to change it.
Think of the word, "attractive." Well that implies "attraction" which means there are two entities involved. You are attracted to one person, just as another person is attracted to you. It's implication is damn well near the law of gravity that two bodies will have a gravitational, or in human's case, sexual pull towards one another. Ergo, to claim you don't need anybody else to think you're attractive of beautiful, that you on your own little lonesome are "beautiful merely because you exist," implies there are no other entities providing a gravitational or "sexual" pull.
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?
s"I just can’t take everything they throw at me without fighting back. I don’t think people realize what goes on at Central. You just wouldn’t believe it. They throw rocks, they spill ink on your clothes, they call you 'nigger,' they just keep bothering you every five minutes. The white students hate me. Why do they hate me so much?"
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
to focus one's thoughts on: reflect on or ponder over.
Propelled by technological breakthroughs in neuroscience enabling researchers to monitor brain activity, the medical community is awash in studies showing that meditating has beneficial physical effects on the brain. Those studies are being joined by others demonstrating that advantages include everything from raising the effectiveness of flu vaccines to lowering rejection rates for organ transplants.
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The science of creativity is arguably still in its infancy, despite there being volumes of research on it since the 1950’s, in part due to the strong presence of folk psychology, and the difficulty in wrangling it scientifically.
I think creativity, from a neurological standpoint, is a collection of cognitive abilities and tendencies, that, when applied to a problem or pursuit, result in the creation of something that is appropriate to the problem/pursuit, and also new/original in some sense.
The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
Henry Ford (American industrialist)
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1) Doing something kind reduces the tension created by our experience of empathy and inaction.
2) A kind act allows us to avoid social sanction or personal guilt for failing to help.
3) Kindness confers social and personal rewards.
If you’re an entrepreneur (or want to be one) I can’t encourage you enough to consider your contribution beyond the products or services you sell. We live in an age where social responsibility is a necessity. Younger generations in particular are choosing their employers and deciding where to spend their paychecks based on how inspired they are by the contributions and impact of the businesses in question. And they have more choices than ever. Making a token charitable donation won’t cut it now–dare to do something truly newsworthy and amazing.
“Born to be good” means that our mammalian and hominid evolution has crafted a species—us—with remarkable tendencies toward kindness, play, generosity, reverence and self-sacrifice, which are vital to the classic tasks of evolution—survival, gene replication and smoothly functioning groups. These tendencies are felt in the wonderful realm of emotion—feelings such as compassion, gratitude, awe, embarrassment and mirth. Recent studies have revealed that our capacity for caring, play, reverence and modesty is built into our brains, bodies, genes and social practices.
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In Price War, Amazon Discounts Go Deeper Than EverThe Amazon monopoly
Yesterday Amazon.com quietly began discounting many bestselling hardcover titles between 50% and 65%, levels we've never seen in the history of Amazon or in the bricks-and-mortar price wars of the past.
John Mutter
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Income disparity between rich and poor growing rapidlyIncreasing wealth and massive poverty in India.
NEW DELHI: Everybody knows that there is a chasm between the rich and the poor. But can it be measured? And, more importantly, is this disparity between the rich and poor growing or coming down?
Subodh Varma
I have compiled this list of the 10 Most Read Books In The World after completing a long project of research to establish exactly which are the most read books in the world … You will find in this list a varied array of subject matter, covering a considerable number of years of some truly talented author’s work. Some of the authors are no longer with us, but the majority are still producing their masterpieces for our ongoing delight.
The 9 Most Important Indians to Follow on Twitter
The most efficient and timely way to get a feel for the Indian business landscape--not to mention Indian society--is to follow the Twitter streams of the most interesting players in that landscape.
This Year Make a Manifesto vs Resolution
As a design oriented thinker, I envision a manifesto as the foundation of a house and resolutions as the trimmings. Manifestos tap into the deep rooted principles that drive you. Whereas resolutions are temporary and specific, manifestos are timeless and apply to every situation.
New York Times Reviews Self-Published Book
... Book reviewers, whether for traditional book review columns or book blogs, frequently don’t accept submissions from self-published authors. Instead, there’s a web of professional relationships between traditional publishers and reviewers which keeps the books and the reviews flowing.