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the decadence - one of the challenges for any writer
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They can take you to a place so far outside the ‘normal’ world – and deep inside your own personality – that the things you say through your creations no longer have meaning for anyone except yourself.
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We need ties – strong ties – to our community, our society, other people. Otherwise we risk depression and despair – and even the loss of ourselves, since you can’t know yourself without knowing other people, just as you can’t know other people without knowing yourself.
Overcoming Bias : Tolstoy on Medicine
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They satisfied that eternal human need for hope of relief, for sympathy, and that something should be done, which is felt by those who are suffering.
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In spite of the many pills she swallowed and the drops and powders out of the little bottles and boxes of which Madame Schoss who was fond of such things made a large collection, and in spite of being deprived of the country life to which she was accustomed, youth prevailed. Natasha’s grief began to be overlaid by the impressions of daily life, it ceased to press so painfully on her heart, it gradually faded into the past, and she began to recover physically.
brad ballanbloch- hiting rock bottom.
prescription for self-respect,your actions are your answers
10 Tips For Dealing With Stress
stress busters: sleep-write todo list-what is the single next action step towards your goal food-yoghurt,nuts,fruit exercise-lunch walk, laugh, do sth new
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pack some fruit, nuts and yoghurt
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comfortable clothes
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Learning From The Best
biographies i want to read: abelincoln benjfranklin doctors
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you'll discover that even the most successful people have the same insecurities as the rest of us.
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Reading biographies is a great way to uncover the real people that exist behind the legends. In every case you'll discover a story of a normal person just like you or me who pursued their dream and persevered though difficulties in order to achieve success. Their inspirational stories will also give you the additional confidence you need to go after your own goals and dreams.
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From Hope To Change
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nurture your feelings of hope and be willing to believe in a brighter future for yourself and your family. I encourage you to use your sense of belief to propel yourself into action. Start today and begin to accumulate the results that will lead to real and lasting change in your life.
Overcoming Bias: Lost Purposes
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But so long as p<0.05 remains the threshold for publication, why should anyone hold themselves to higher standards, when that requires bigger research grants for larger experimental groups, and decreases the likelihood of getting a publication?
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dreaming up wish after wish that seems good to them, sometimes with many patches and sometimes without even that pretense of caution. And they don't jump to the meta-level. They don't instinctively look-to-purpose, the instinct that started me down the track to atheism at the age of five. They do not ask, as I reflexively ask, "Why do I think this wish is a good idea?
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Overcoming Bias: Sympathetic Minds
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"Mirror neurons" are neurons that are active both when performing an action and observing the same action - for example, a neuron that fires when you hold up a finger or see someone else holding up a finger.
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what your relatives want probably has something to do with your relatives' reproductive success - this being an explanation for the selection pressure, of course, not a conscious belief.
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Ben Casnocha: The Blog: Quotes from Jonathan Franzen
depression
blog read/write
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"One of the great adaptive virtues of our brains...is out ability to forget almost everything that has ever happened to us.
"One of the basic features of the mind is its keenness to construct wholes out of fragmentary parts."
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"As the social stigma of depression dwindles, the aesthetic stigma increases. It's not just that depression has become fashionable to the point of banality. It's the sense that we live in a reductively binary culture: you're either healthy or you're sick, you either function or you don't. And if that flattening of the field of possibilities is precisely what's depressing you, you're inclined to resist participating in the flattening by calling yourself depressed. You decide that it's the world that's sick, and that the resistance of refusing to function in such a world is healthy."
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Babes in the Woods - The Atlantic (July/August 2007)
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(Protecting her identity seems at once important and ridiculous: I am taking pains to make private information that she has taken pains to make public.)
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And yet all of them were posted in a place that was designed not just to allow me in but to welcome me
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Babes in the Woods - The Atlantic (July/August 2007)
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Club Penguin was the most happening event of the second grade; to be denied it was to be denied not just a pleasure but an essential mode of schoolyard discussion and inclusion, a way of being a second-grader.
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something about it scared me: The penguins could chat with each other. True, the chatting is monitored by paid professionals and a citizens’ army of tattlers, children who’ve been members for more than 30 days and who’ve been commissioned as “Secret Agents” to loiter in the public spaces and report on inappropriate chat, including the exchange of telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. But these protocols only highlight the paradox at Club Penguin’s core: It’s certainly the safest way for unsupervised children to talk to potentially malevolent strangers—but why would you want them to do that in the first place?
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Babes in the Woods - The Atlantic (July/August 2007)
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In the first place, these girls’ feelings can be hurt by even a well-intentioned comment or question, and having a caustic remark that would have been bad enough if kept between two people suddenly unleashed to the whole clique, team, or school can be a wretched experience. Furthermore, because this new technology can make the old girl standbys of gossip and social exclusion and taunting more efficient—and therefore more cruel—many girls arrive at school each morning having experienced the equivalent of a public hazing in the privacy of their own rooms. While Johnny’s upstairs happily sneaking hard-core pornography past his Internet filter, poor Judy is next door weeping into her pillow because everyone in the eighth grade now knows that she still uses pads, not tampons.
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Kelsey describes an experiment she conducts each year in which kids are asked not to log on for an entire week. Many of them can’t hack it, but the ones who do often find themselves happier and calmer.
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Babes in the Woods - The Atlantic (July/August 2007)
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That young man didn’t do me any harm, but neither was he a good-natured kidder. The train arrived, and he lingered behind me as I boarded it. Then he pulled himself up to the bottom step and called my name. When he had my attention, he said—quietly, but with just enough menace that I have remembered him to this day—“You ought to be more careful about what you write on that tag.” I stared dumbly at the cardboard luggage tag I had filled in so carefully. He jumped back down to the platform, the train pulled away, and that was the last I saw of him.
He’d tricked me by using two things against me: some personal information and my youth. My ability to recognize social cues, to distinguish an approach that was well-intentioned from one that was threatening, was not what it would be in five years’ time. I wasn’t an unworldly person or an especially naive one; I was just young
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Set your children loose, as you someday must, and there will be all kinds of people waiting for them.
Babes in the Woods - The Atlantic (July/August 2007)
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they’re posting photographs of themselves, typing private sentiments, unthinkingly laying down a trail of bread crumbs leading straight to their dance recitals and Six Flags trips and Justin Timberlake concerts, places where anyone with an interest in retainer-wearing 13-year-olds is free to follow them. All that remains to be seen is whether anyone will follow them, and herein lies a terrifying uncertainty, which neither skeptics nor doomsayers can deny: The Internet has opened a portal into what used to be the inviolable space of the home, through which anything, harmful or harmless, can pass. It won’t be closing anytime soon—or ever—and all that parents can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst.
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To Catch a Predator puts an innocent in contact with a trickster and then allows the inevitable to take place. But after you watch a few episodes, it dawns on you that the naifs in this equation are actually the idiot perverts who take the bait and end up in the slammer. Calling this sad-sack collection of wankers and flashers “predators” accords them a level of evil genius they haven’t earned; most of them look like they couldn’t track down the towel department in a Wal-Mart
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No Girlfriend of Mine - The Atlantic (November 2007)
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What remains of the old Hillary, the one I would have followed anywhere, are the worst of the traits that often mark idealists (humorlessness, sanctimoniousness) combined with the worst expediency and hypocrisy of her husband. In short, to get excited about Hillary is not to get excited about how a woman can change the world, but rather to endorse the way a certain kind of man—over time, and holding her hostage not only by her ambition but by the love she has for a child whose home she desperately didn’t want to destroy—can diminish the very best of a woman.
Scott H Young » It’s Okay to be Unhappy
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Your emotions are the dashboard gauges in life. They let you know if you’re running out of gas or if you’re driving too fast or slow. But, you got in the car with a purpose to drive somewhere. The gauges can give you corrective feedback, but they can’t be your reason to start the car.
Negative feedback is just an internal warning that you need to make an adjustment. It’s not a grander sign of failure, it’s just a speedometer that’s running a bit high, or a fuel gauge showing you’re almost empty. Unhappiness is a push for you to recognize a truth about your situation and make a change to fix it. The only people who never experience unhappiness are the people who’ve decided not to drive.
Shankar Vedantam - In Face of Tragedy, 'Whodunit' Question Often Guides Moral Reasoning - washingtonpost.com
focus bias=on intention of tragedy rather than damage proportion of tragedies.
malicious intentions may harbor latent greater damaging consequences in the future.
consequential reasoning may lead to overreaction & hurt our interests.
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When assessing how wrong something is, we focus on intentions -- the detective approach. A person who meant to do harm is seen as worse than a person who did not mean to harm, regardless of how much harm was caused
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When it comes to assessing punishment, however, people pay much more attention to consequences:
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Study Hacks » Blog Archive » 5 Mistakes to Avoid During Finals
don't be too over-confident that you can deal everything before exams without having a sensible detailed plan for prior preparation=specific to learns in discrete time schedules.
don't let daily administrative work to get piled before exams-muck it regularly.
isolate for adventure studying.
not grades-rely only on what worked,what didn't,what missed.
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build a detailed and clear plan that covers every due date and exam — including exactly when you’ll you work on each.
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No good can possibly come from such a superficial focus on the numbers. It will add stress. This, in turn, will make it harder for you to execute a reasonable, specific, and efficient study plan. Also, it’s just plain crass. You don’t want to be that person…
Forget about your G.P.A., and focus, instead, on how you can best prepare for the specific challenge in front of you. If you screw up, you screw up. Perform a post-mortem and use this to guide better preparation the next time around.
The Sculpting Competition
learn from your mistakes to upgrade then & there , don't carry forward the load of regret.
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On your journey to success, understand that you too will make mistakes. Some small, some big. Each time you make a mistake you have a choice. You can either learn from your mistake and move on like Seb, or you can carry your mistake with you like Matthias.
The danger in harboring regret and continually analyzing your past mistakes is that, like Matthias, you can eventually get stuck and can jeopardize the achievements that are waiting for you in your future.
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