Category: mind
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The Search for Meaning, Two Questions, and a Legacy Project
All credit to Chris Guillebeau, creator of the online manifesto “A Brief Guide to World Domination”. http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/ The following is taken directly from Chris Guillebeau’s book: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live The Life You Want, and Change The World “Ambition is not a vice of little people.” – Michel de Montaigne…
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The One-Year, Self-Directed, Alternative Graduate School Experience
All credit to Chris Guillebeau, creator of the online manifesto “A Brief Guide to World Domination”. http://chrisguillebeau.com/3×5/ The following is taken directly from Chris Guillebeau’s book: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live The Life You Want, and Change The World The One-Year, Self-Directed, Alternative Graduate School Experience Subscribe to the Economist and…
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Daniel Pink on Motivation
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The Art Of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
The Art Of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence Josh Waitzkin “…to be quietly, intensely focused, apparently relaxed with a serene look on your face, but inside all the mental juices are churning. You flow with whatever comes, integrating every ripple of life into your creative moment. This Soft Zone is resilient, like…
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How To Be Good At Lots Of Stuff
1. Luck – Start Young Ideally, your parents would have started interacting with you constructively before you had any idea that you were alive: Mozart on the swollen baby-mama belly, face-in-face moving talking and playing like an obsessive parent, encouraging curiosity and exploring, treating child with respect, multiple environments and quiet time to digest the…
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More Accurately Evaluating Life Choices
I’m not the only one unable to ignore a fluctuating though undeniably ever-present repulsive environmental tension. I wonder if man has always felt this way or if our modern sense of empowerment and ability curses us with an insatiable perfectionism. I expect I will always request improvement of myself and of my world, but the…