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The Disease of Being Busy

The Disease of Being Busy
I saw a dear friend a few days ago. I stopped by to ask her how she was doing, how her family was. She looked up, voice lowered, and just whimpered: “I’m so busy… I am so busy… have so much going on.” Almost immediately after, I ran into another friend and asked him how he was. Again, same tone, same response: “I’m just so busy… got so much to do.” The tone was exacerbated, tired, even overwhelmed. And it’s not just adults. After we settled in, we went to one of the friendly neighbors, asking if their daughter and our daughter could get together and play. Horribly destructive habits start early, really early. How did we end up living like this? Whatever happened to a world in which kids get muddy, get dirty, get messy, and heavens, get bored? How did we create a world in which we have more and more and more to do with less time for leisure, less time for reflection, less time for community, less time to just… be? Somewhere we read, “The unexamined life is not worth living… for a human.” W.

Las terribles consecuencias del «efecto pigmalión» sobre los hijos - ABC.es «Es muy tímido», «es muy malo y desobediente», «no se entera de nada», «es pasivo»... Lo que pensamos, lo que decimos... A veces no somos plenamente conscientes pero juzgamos y etiquetamos a los niños prematuramente, condicionando su comportamiento y produciéndoles unas heridas que, metafóricamente, pueden llegar a estar sangrando durante muchos años si no se reconocen y cicatrizan correctamente. ¿Por qué sucede esto? «Trato diferencial» entre hermanos Por otra parte las expectativas, prosigue esta docente, pueden depositarse en base al llamado «efecto halo». Porque además, continua esta especialista, muchas veces se tiende a idealizar el comportamiento del hijo que suele comportarse mejor, y se le regaña menos, se le castiga menos y, en definitiva, se suele tener más paciencia con él que con el que suele portarse peor. Ámbito escolar Y en el ámbito escolar sucede exactamente lo mismo, afirma esta especialista. Para potenciar la autoestima —Aceptar y respetar al niño.

63 Steps to Survive The Worst Moments of Your Life - Mark Manson Step 1: Slap yourself in the face. Hard, preferably. Because if a slap in the face seems too painful to consider, then whatever problem you’re dealing with right now is really not that big of a problem. You’re likely just milking it for attention or the chance to feel sorry for yourself. It’s only when you’re truly wallowing in the depths of pain and failure that you think, “Hah! So either slap yourself or shut your mouth and get on with your life. Step 2: Don’t compare your suffering to others. You don’t actually know these things, so you don’t get to compare yourself to these things. We all feel things slightly differently. Step 3: Identify the feeling. Step 4: Don’t repress it. Speaking of which… Step 5: Go ahead and cry if you need to. Step 6: Seriously. Step 7: See, doesn’t that feel nice? Step 8: Solicit Mark for a free hug. Step 9: Blame somebody else for all of your pain. Step 10: Once you’ve figured out who to blame, immediately forgive that person. Step 47: Practice patience.

Young Hans Christian Andersen Climbs Mount Vesuvius During an Eruption and Lives to Tell About It in a Beautiful, Dramatic Account | Brain Pickings by Maria Popova “The sea raised its great wings, coal black smoke arose from Vesuvius into the blue sky…” Hans Christian Andersen revolutionized storytelling with his timeless fairy tales, driven by a cinematic sensitivity to beauty. In mid-February of 1834, while touring Europe, 29-year-old Andersen arrived in Naples just as the mighty Mount Vesuvius was in the midst of one of its then-regular and dramatic eruptions, three centuries after the first of them had drowned dozens of Italian villages in hot lava and killed an estimated 3,000 people. The flamboyant mesmerism of the event cast a spell that would stay with him for the rest of his life. In The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen (public library) — the same obscure yet remarkable volume that gave us Andersen’s little-known and lovely sketches — comes his breathtaking account of his visit to Vesuvius and his crazy quest to climb the mount as it was erupting. Hans Christian Andersen's diary drawing of the Vesuvius eruption, 1834

Love is Not Enough In 1967, John Lennon wrote a song called, “All You Need is Love.” He also beat both of his wives, abandoned one of his children, verbally abused his gay Jewish manager with homophobic and anti-semitic slurs, and once had a camera crew film him lying naked in his bed for an entire day. Thirty-five years later, Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails wrote a song called “Love is Not Enough.” One of these two men had a clear and realistic understanding of love. In our culture, many of us idealize love. When we believe that “all we need is love,” then like Lennon, we’re more likely to ignore fundamental values such as respect, humility and commitment towards the people we care about. But if, like Reznor, we believe that “love is not enough,” then we understand that healthy relationships require more than pure emotion or lofty passions. Three Harsh Truths About Love 1. It’s possible to fall in love with somebody who sucks for us and our happiness. That may sound paradoxical, but it’s true. 2. 3.

A Crucial Week: 10 Reasons NOT to date a girl who teaches This post entitled "Date a Girl Who Teaches" has popped up in my Facebook news feed a few times this weekend. So I've decided to have a look at the opposite point of view. Here are my reasons not to date a girl who teaches (in no particular order)! 1. "Sunday Sads:" Anyone who knows a teacher, knows the pain of last-minute Sunday planning. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9: People will ask you how many kids you have: as she refers to her class as "my kids" even in social situations.10.

No dejen de pasar este mensaje a sus esposas, novias, amigas, hijas ó colegas de trabajo. | TAC3 News Una médica biomolecular con MBA emitió un alerta para labiales conteniendo plomo, que es una sustancia cancerígena. Recientemente algunas marcas disminuyeron sus finanzas los precios de $ 67,00 USD a $9.90 USD; por qué tomo esta medida..? ¡¡porque contenía plomo..!!! Cuanto mayor el contenido de plomo, mayor el riesgo de causar cáncer. Atención para esos labiales que supuestamente tienen una fijación mayor. Igual, haz esta prueba o mira este video >> (Como detectar si mi labial tiene plomo) 1. Por favor, envía esta información para todas tus amigas Una Nota tomada de Internet: Bonus Video lucha contra el cancer

53 Colorized Black & White Photos From History Will Blow You Away Subscribe Share on FacebookShare on Twitter Share Tweet Up until the 1970s, color photography was extremely rare, and so when we think about history prior to that time, we often envision it in black and white. Today’s technology now enables us to “colorize” historical photos, giving us our only chance at seeing what the world really looked like back then. Take a trip back in time through these photos below. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Jordan J. 6. 7. 8. 9. Jordan J. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Jordan J. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. Patty Allison 35. 36. 37. Jordan J. 38. 39. 40. 1920s Australian mugshots from the New South Wales Police Dept. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. Jordan J. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. Source: Reddit Seeing these photos in color for the first time makes it easy to imagine we could all have been part of a world that we’ve never even seen. Share these amazing photos with others.

A Short Guide to a Happy Life: Anna Quindlen on Work, Joy, and How to Live Rather Than Exist | Brain Pickings by Maria Popova “You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.” The commencement address is a special kind of modern communication art, and its greatest masterpieces tend to either become a book — take, for instance, David Foster Wallace on the meaning of life, Neil Gaiman on the resilience of the creative spirit, Ann Patchett on storytelling and belonging, and Joseph Brodsky on winning the game of life — or have originated from a book, such as Debbie Millman on courage and the creative life. In 2000, Villanova University invited Pulitzer-Prize-winning author, journalist, and New York Times op-ed columnist Anna Quindlen to deliver the annual commencement address. Anna Quindlen (artwork based on a photograph by Grant M. Quindlen begins: I’ve never earned a doctorate, or even a master’s degree. And know it she does: Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. Illustration by Maurice Sendak from 'Open House for Butterflies' by Ruth Krauss. She continues:

Future Timeline | Technology | Singularity | 2020 | 2050 | 2100 | 2150 | 2200 | 21st century | 22nd century | 23rd century | Humanity | Predictions | Events Love Is Forever: A Children’s Book That Helps Kids Deal with Losing a Loved One | Brain Pickings by Maria Popova A tender lesson in living with loss from Little Owl. If grief is so gargantuan a struggle even for grownups, how are tiny humans to handle a weight so monumental once it presses down? That’s precisely what writer Casey Rislov, who holds a master’s degree in elementary education and has an intense interest in special needs, and Minneapolis-based children’s book illustrator Rachel Balsaits explore in Love is Forever (public library) — the story of Little Owl, who loves her Grandfather Owl very much, and how she, with the help of her parents and baby brother, deals with the sadness of her grandfather’s death by learning to keep his love alive forever. In sweet verses and tender illustrations, the story unpacks with elegant simplicity the complexities of loss and presents a refreshing outlier as one of those rare children’s books that go beyond not shying away from darker subjects and actually tackle them head-on. Donating = Loving Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter.

Rural Pilots Won't Be Happy About the FAA's New Drone Rules | WIRED The FAA is preparing to release its first set of rules governing how everyone from hobbyists to movie producers to ranchers can use drones. That’s good news, in the sense that some regulation is probably better than none—what we have now—when it comes to flying machines. Unfortunately, while some of the proposed rules would do a lot to keep us safe, they could also significantly hamper some really good uses for drones in more rural areas. Part of the problem is that the FAA rules assign drone pilots into just two categories: Hobbyists who are flying drones in their backyard, and “commercial” pilots who are making money. “We have to get away from these mindsets that there’s a difference between buying a DJI Phantom [a popular $1,000 drone] as a private citizen or for looking at crops,” says Ella Atkins, an associate professor for aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan. That’s not totally unreasonable.

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