10 Awesome Websites to Make You Think. Intelligence is something that must compensate the lack of reflexes and a poor adaptation to the live world.
We’re talking here about the humankind. If you look back in history, we’ve had many geniuses. We still have geniuses today. They are big thinkers and they can move the world with a single finger. They fascinate us, and we fascinate others, because we are not equal. Check out these awesome websites that make you think: HowStuffWorks How Stuff Works is a magnificent place where everything, from electronics to chemistry, is explained. NewScientist New Scientist is an information heaven. TED started as a conference website which posts some nice high quality videos with smart people from all around the world. BreathingEarth This is a website that really makes you think about this planet, about the CO2 levels and many other parameters, like world population growth in real time. BigThink.
Introverts are Not Retarded or Anti-Social - Understanding The Introverted Child. Summary: The world is full of extroverts and reflects their extroverted ways.
This is hard on introverts. The Dos and Don’ts of working with an introverted child. My daughter making a pet store in her room. But don't bother her while she's working on it. She'll let you know when it's done and then gladly give you a tour. Thought Questions - Asking the right questions is the answer. The 50 Best Mind Hacks on the Web.
Image: JanneM/Flickr Mind hacks.
Ever since Tom Stafford and Matt Webb introduced us to the hidden logic of our upstairs system in their 2004 neuroscience tome, these simple tricks have taken the blogosphere by storm. Nowadays, there’s a hack for everything, from your sex life to your kitchen stove. We compiled the Web’s 50 best mind (and life, and career, and…you get the point) hacks. These self-improvement gleanings are bound to make you a better, well, everything:
Advice. 4 Things That Sad People Are Doing Right Now. The Sagittarius Woman. #40 – Why smart people defend bad ideas. [First published April 2005] We all know someone who’s intelligent, but who occasionally defends obviously bad ideas.
Why does this happen? How can smart people take up positions that defy any reasonable logic? Having spent many years working with smart people I’ve cataloged many of the ways this happens, and I have advice on what to do about it. I feel qualified to write this essay as I’m a recovering smart person myself and I’ve defended several very bad ideas. Success at defending bad ideas I’m not entirely proud to admit that I have a degree in Logic and Computation from Carnegie Mellon University. The problem with smart people is that they like to be right and sometimes will defend ideas to the death rather than admit they’re wrong.
Until they come face to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, and resilient enough to endure the thinly veiled intellectual abuse they dish out during debate (e.g. Death by homogeny Thinking at the wrong level References. 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind. The Awakening. A time comes in your life when you finally get it...when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out...ENOUGH!
Enough fighting and crying and blaming and struggling to hold on. Then, like a child quieting down after a tantrum, you blink back your tears and begin to look at the world through new eyes. This is your awakening. You realize it's time to stop hoping and waiting for something to change, or for happiness, safety and security to magically appear over the next horizon. You realize that in the real world there aren't always fairy tale endings, and that any guarantee of "happily ever after" must begin with you... and in the process a sense of serenity is born of acceptance.
*bellaMUMMA {life is beauty-full}: 100 ways to UNCOMPLICATE YOUR LIFE. I 'STUMBLED UPON' THIS POST AT 'LIVE THE CHARMED LIFE' AND I LOVED IT SO MUCH, I JUST HAD TO SHARE IT!
It begins... You see, when we’re born we see the world in an uncomplicated way. We know what we need, and we ask for it. 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking. This I Want. Dear Mom and Dad, You always talk about the future you want from me.
I’m 17. You want me to grow up, go to college, get married, have nice little babies and have a perfect life. How did that work out for you? You are divorced with slightly above average jobs. How am I suppose to want to get married if I see what it results in? How about asking what I want for a change? Where Do You Live? No, I Mean Truly LIVE. You can do a lot of things at home.
Thought Questions - Asking the right questions is the answer.