Project Gutenberg - free ebooks ThinkandBeHappy Mind & Its Potential 201427 & 28 October 2014 | The Concourse, Chatswood, Sydney What is your true potential? Can you really train your brain?How can you thrive? Learn, network, be engaged and motivated at Mind & Its Potential 2014! With 30+ world renowned international and local speakers this event is an essential 'to-do' for maximising your potential in all aspects of life. • Professor Michael Merzenich, USA, world's foremost expert on the science of brain training who featured in ABC TV hit series Redesign My Brain as Todd Sampson's mentor • Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, India, a remarkable woman who spent 12 years alone meditating in the Himalayas as featured in the international best-selling book Cave in the Snow• Dr Linda E Carlson, Canada, pioneering psycho-oncology researcher and expert on mindfulness as a health intervention• B.
Human Thinking: Is it Rational or Creative? For a long time we have been taught to think in a specific way, and that is the rational way of thinking. Rational is a word that originated from the Latin rationalis. This way of thinking was, somehow, created mostly by Europeans, Rene Descartes being the most famous in the group, but actually this kind of thinking dates far back in the days when the Greeks gave birth to logic and coherent thoughts. Thinking Logically An example of a logical thought would be to say if A is B, and B is C, then C is A. Another would be, if Socrates was a human, and all human were beautiful, then Socrates was beautiful. The Brain Prefers Multi-dimensional Thinking Now, here’s the problem. With your brain let loose, you are actually dreaming. I always think of my brain as a Kubrick movie. Think in a Way that Suits You This makes a lot of people miserable, thinking they had acted on their emotions. However, you should think in a way that suits you and not force a different kind of thinking on yourself.
Motivational Jiu-Jitsu: Staying Positive in the Face of Negativity & Indifference It’s easy to stay motivated when you are on the receiving end of a lot of positive feedback. When your boss, your clients, and your coworkers are giving you high fives and telling you what great work you are doing, you can glide from day to day, churning out more and more great work. Unfortunately, most of us are not riding a tidal wave of high-fives through our workday. If anything, the more demanding your job is, the more likely it is that you are having to field negative criticism on a regular basis. So how can we stay motivated in the face of negativity or just plain indifference? I have a simple activity that I do to identify the problem areas, and think about how I can counteract them. The more demanding your job is, the more likely it is that you are having to field negative criticism on a regular basis. Make sure that one of these “people” is your Inner Critic, since each of us is continually providing ourselves with feedback. Start with the people that give you no feedback.
Sophie & Antoine à San Francisco Instituto Art Déco Brasil, Rio de Janeiro This is the headquarters of the Instituto Art Déco Brasil near the Jardim Botânico in Rio de Janeiro. Playlist: 5 Mindshifting talks on happiness (TED is on its annual two-week vacation. During the break, we’re posting playlists from the TEDTalks archive. We’ll be back with new talks on August 29th.) Happiness seems simple, yet the more we look into it, the more layers and complexities we find. Here are five TEDTalks that will transform how you view happiness, and how to achieve it. 1) Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we’ll be miserable if we don’t get what we want. 2) Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves” and our “remembering selves” perceive happiness differently. 3) Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi asks, “What makes a life worth living?” 4) Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. 5) Martin Seligman talks about psychology — as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. .
L'île à Lulu Cloud Computing: Architectural Limbo When abstraction becomes a distraction, cloud computing becomes a realm of architectural limbo… Cloud. It sounds so grand in NIST’s description; full of promises with respect to the ability to provision and manage resources without having to muck around in the trenches. Compute! Network! Storage! Differing slightly from the original meaning, in colloquial speech, "limbo" is any status where a person or project is held up, and nothing can be done until another action happens.-- Wikipedia The problem is, unfortunately, at the root of all architectures – the network. ARCHITECTURE and the NETWORK Architecturally, from a “stack” point of view, the network always resides at the bottom. upper layers of the stack, but rather that it is the foundation upon which all other layers are ultimately laid. A strong foundation is critical to the resilience of the rest of the architecture. That is not to say that cloud computing environments have weak foundations. Note the use of the term “approximation”.
50 Things You Can Control Right Now “Why worry about things you can’t control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?” ~Unknown CNN reports that psychic businesses are thriving in this challenging economy, and the clientele has expanded to include more business professionals who are worried about their financial future. According to Columbia Business School’s Professor Gita Johar, who studies consumer behavior, the greatest motivation for visiting a psychic is to feel a sense of control. Sure, there are lots of things we can’t control: businesses may fold, stocks may plummet, relationships may end—the list is infinite, really. Right now, you can control: 1. Odds are, some of these resonate with you more than others; so what? When I start fixating on something I can’t control, I pick just one of these to think about instead. Photo by Steve Dean See a typo, an inaccuracy, or something offensive?
Les Carnets d'Odysseus A Conceit of Architects What do we call a gathering of Architects? When animals gather in groups, we refer to them by an array of elegant terms: a Flock of Birds, a Herd of Sheep, a Swarm of Bees, a Smack of Jellyfish, an Array of Hedgehogs, a Pack of Elephants, a Clan of Bears, a Troop of Chimpanzees, an Exultation of Lark, an Unkindness of Raven, a Murmuration of Starlings, a Building of Rooks, a Fling of Sandpipers, a Wreck of Seagulls, a Gulp of Swallows, a Mutation of Thrush, a Brace of Ducks, a Piteousness of Doves… Piteousness? damn, the birds get the really good ones… But, what do we call a collection of Architects? I think we need a name for it…. A Wandering of Architects A Happenstance of Architects A Coincidence of Architects A Cluster of Architects An Opposition of Architects A Diametric Opposition of Architects An Irony of Architects A Ludwig of Architects A Shrug of Architects An Ennui of Architects An Arrangement of Architects An Argument of Architects (via @anthonylingwood) A Hierarchy of Architects umm,
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