7 razones por las que es importante conectarse con uno mismo y con otras personas Se sabe que para estar bien con el Mundo se debe estar bien con uno mismo o, en otras palabras, primero hay que amarse uno para poder amar al resto. Pero, ¿por qué esto es tan importante? Aquí hay 7 razones. 1. Cuando esperamos encontrar aprobación de otras personas, corremos el riesgo de sentirnos abandonados, pues otras personas no pueden estar 24 horas a nuestro lado. Sin embargo, nosotros mismos sí estamos las 24 horas para consolarnos y recordarnos lo bueno de la vida. 2. Si nos sentimos tristes, vacíos, desconectados, abandonados o algún otro sentimiento negativo, es probable que atraigamos a alguien que sienta lo mismo. Lo mejor es que dos personas se sientan al 100% cada una por su lado, y al 200% cuando están con su pareja. 3. Así como de niños nos sentíamos abandonados si nuestros padres no nos ponían atención, nuestro niño interno se deprime cuando no lo escuchamos, cuando nos desconectamos de nuestros sentimientos y pensamientos. 4. 5. 6. 7. [HuffingtonPost]
How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love by Maria Popova Why prestige is the enemy of passion, or how to master the balance of setting boundaries and making friends. “Find something more important than you are,” philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing the secret of happiness, “and dedicate your life to it.” But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. Every few months, I rediscover and redevour Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham’s fantastic 2006 article, How to Do What You Love. What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. More of Graham’s wisdom on how to find meaning and make wealth can be found in Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. Alain de Botton, modern philosopher and creator of the “literary self-help genre”, is a keen observer of the paradoxes and delusions of our cultural conceits. In The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, he takes his singular lens of wit and wisdom to the modern workplace and the ideological fallacies of “success.” 16.
Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living by Maria Popova Reflections on how to keep the center solid as you continue to evolve. UPDATE: The fine folks of Holstee have turned these seven learnings into a gorgeous letterpress poster inspired by mid-century children’s book illustration. On October 23, 2006, I sent a short email to a few friends at work — one of the four jobs I held while paying my way through college — with the subject line “brain pickings,” announcing my intention to start a weekly digest featuring five stimulating things to learn about each week, from a breakthrough in neuroscience to a timeless piece of poetry. Illustration by Maurice Sendak from 'I'll Be You and You Be Me' by Ruth Krauss, 1954. Illustration from 'Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children's Literature 1920-35.' Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. One of Maurice Sendak's vintage posters celebrating the joy of reading. Then, just for good measure, here are seven of my favorite pieces from the past seven years. Share on Tumblr
Apps in Education Investigación revela que pensar demasiado va en detrimento del desempeño humano Muchas veces el ser humano necesita que una investigación le compruebe lo que ya sabía. Sabemos, por ejemplo, que no nos pueden explicar cómo andar en bicicleta porque eso pertenece a la memoria implícita del cuerpo. El cuerpo sabe qué hacer, y pensar demasiado al respecto puede interferir. Pero una reciente investigación nos explica qué es exactamente lo que hace que en ciertas circunstancias prestar demasiada atención puede de hecho impedir la realización. Los investigadores inician con lo siguiente: “Existen dos tipos de memoria: la implícita: una forma de memoria a largo plazo que no requiere de pensamientos conscientes y se expresa por distintos medios que las palabras; y la explícita: otra clase de memoria a largo plazo formada conscientemente que puede ser descrita en palabras”. Esto quiere decir que la memoria implícita es de confianza en algunas situaciones como recordar alguna imagen o recordar cómo andar en bicicleta. [MedicalXpress]
20-Year-Old Hunter S. Thompson’s Superb Advice on How to Find Your Purpose and Live a Meaningful Life As a hopeless lover of both letters and famous advice, I was delighted to discover a letter 20-year-old Hunter S. Thompson — gonzo journalism godfather, pundit of media politics, dark philosopher — penned to his friend Hume Logan in 1958. Found in Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience (public library | IndieBound) — the aptly titled, superb collection based on Shaun Usher’s indispensable website of the same name — the letter is an exquisite addition to luminaries’ reflections on the meaning of life, speaking to what it really means to find your purpose. Cautious that “all advice can only be a product of the man who gives it” — a caveat other literary legends have stressed with varying degrees of irreverence — Thompson begins with a necessary disclaimer about the very notion of advice-giving: To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience.
Information society An information society is a society where the creation, distribution, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity. The aim of the information society is to gain competitive advantage internationally, through using information technology (IT) in a creative and productive way. The knowledge economy is its economic counterpart, whereby wealth is created through the economic exploitation of understanding. People who have the means to partake in this form of society are sometimes called digital citizens. The markers of this rapid change may be technological, economic, occupational, spatial, cultural, or some combination of all of these.[2] Information society is seen as the successor to industrial society. Definition[edit] There is currently no universally accepted concept of what exactly can be termed information society and what shall rather not so be termed. The growth of information in society[edit] Economic transition[edit]
Science Toys ¿Por qué el sistema educativo de Finlandia es el mejor del planeta? El sistema que utilizan en Finlandia para impartir educación a sus habitantes ha sido reconocido como el mejor del mundo. Lo anterior fue establecido en los informes PISA, emitidos por la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económico (OCDE). Con el objeto de descifrar las razones de esta excelencia educativa de Finlandia, Tony Wagner, Miembro de Educación en Innovación del Centro de Tecnología y Espíritu Emprendedor, de la Universidad de Harvard, viajó a este país nórdico. Tras analizar el sistema educativo finlandés, Wagner determinó que este se encuentra fundamentado en cuatro pilares: la confianza, la transparencia, el respeto y el incentivo a pensar más allá de memorizar. En cuanto a la primera de estas virtudes, la confianza, Wagner considera que se desdobla en una dinámica en la cual “la comunidad confía en los colegios, la población confía en los profesores y los maestros confían en los alumnos”.
7 Life-Learnings from 7 Years of Brain Pickings, Illustrated by Maria Popova “Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.” In the fall of 2013, as Brain Pickings was turning seven, I wrote about the seven most important things I learned in those seven years of reading, writing, and living. Much to my surprise and humbling delight, I began receiving a steady outpour of letters from readers, people for whom these notes to myself had struck a deep chord of resonance in their own lives, on their own journeys. Eventually, my friends at Holstee — makers of the beloved Holstee Manifesto — reached out and suggested a creative collaboration that would bring these seven learnings to life in visual form. I’m proud and so very excited to reveal the end result of this collaborative labor of love, months in the making — an 18″x24″ letterpress poster printed on thick, sustainable cotton paper, inspired by vintage children’s book illustration and mid-century graphic design. Read the original article here and grab a print here.
Digital citizen A digital citizen refers to a person utilizing/using information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government participation. K. Mossberger, et al.[1] define digital citizens as "those who use the Internet regularly and effectively".[2][3] In qualifying as a digital citizen, a person generally must have extensive skills, knowledge, and access of using the Internet through computers, mobile phones, and web-ready devices to interact with private and public organizations. People characterizing themselves as digital citizens often use IT extensively, creating blogs, using social networks, and participating in web journalism sites.[4] Although digital citizenship potentially begins when any child, teen, and/or adult signs up for an email address, posts pictures online, uses e-commerce to buy merchandise online, and/or participates in any electronic function that is B2C or B2B, the process of becoming a digital citizen goes beyond simple Internet activity. Netizen
Biology History The objects of our research will be the different forms and manifestations of life, the conditions and laws under which these phenomena occur, and the causes through which they have been effected. The science that concerns itself with these objects we will indicate by the name biology [Biologie] or the doctrine of life [Lebenslehre]. Although modern biology is a relatively recent development, sciences related to and included within it have been studied since ancient times. Natural philosophy was studied as early as the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indian subcontinent, and China. However, the origins of modern biology and its approach to the study of nature are most often traced back to ancient Greece.[6] While the formal study of medicine dates back to Hippocrates (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC), it was Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) who contributed most extensively to the development of biology. Foundations of modern biology Cell theory Main article: Cell theory Genetics
Brain Pickings Italo Calvino: su lúcida y sorprendente opinión sobre el aborto Cuando la segunda ola de feminismo se encontraba en su momento de plenitud, en 1975, el escritor Italo Calvino envió una carta al intelectual Claudio Magris, como respuesta a su artículo en contra del aborto llamado “The Deluded”, publicado en el periódico italiano Corriere della sera. A continuación las palabras de Calvino: Traer a un niño al mundo tiene sentido sólo si el niño es deseado consciente y libremente por sus padres. Si no, se trata simplemente de comportamiento animal y criminal. Un ser humano se convierte en humano no sólo por la convergencia causal de ciertas condiciones biológicas, sino a través del acto de voluntad y amor de otras personas. Si este no es el caso, la humanidad se vuelve —lo cual ya ocurre— no más que una madriguera de conejos. Sólo aquellas personas que están 100% convencidas de poseer la capacidad moral y física no sólo de mantener a un hijo sino de acogerlo y amarlo, tienen derecho a procrear. [brain pickings]