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Procrastination

The Misconception: You procrastinate because you are lazy and can’t manage your time well. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/
http://www.globalone.tv/profiles/blogs/three-techniques-for-quieting

Three Techniques for Quieting Your Mind

Three Techniques for Quieting Your Mind
http://zenhabits.net/zen-attachment/ “Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.”

Letting Go of Attachment, from A to Zen | zen habits

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The Art of Giving Up - DYSKE.COM

One winter night, one of the few Japanese friends I had in my early 20s was playing a guitar at his company Christmas party.
My father once told me a story about how he and his cousin Pat would dress up, head out into public and pretend to be other people. Once they put on some plaid shirts, worn-out pants and hiking boots, then went to a local bar to smoke cigars, shoot pool, and pretend to be one of the guys who did that sort of thing seriously. Another time they wore dark sunglasses, rented three piece suits and stood stoic on a street corner, looking like federal agents and generally making people nervous. http://everything2.com/title/i%2527m+a+million+different+people+from+one+day+to+the+next

i'm a million different people from one day to the

The Things We Already Know

We know the answers to many of the questions we ask ourselves, whether we admit it or not. We deny the answers for many reasons. http://worldsstrongestlibrarian.com/5451/the-things-we-already-know/
Books

How to Be Alone

http://lifeasahuman.com/2010/mind-spirit/inspirational/how-to-be-alone/ I once knew a man who hated to be alone.

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The world is meaningless, there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
“Enthralling. Astonishing.

Excerpt: Isolation

5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness

Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it.

Introduction to Mind and Consciousness

What is mind? What is consciousness? There seems to be no single answer that explains the phenomenon of mind.

Plato, "The Allegory of the Cave"

The son of a wealthy and noble family, Plato (427-347 B.C.) was preparing for a career in politics when the trial and eventual execution of Socrates (399 B.C.) changed the course of his life.