And men should know that from nothing else but from the brain come joys, laughter and jests, and sorrows, griefs, despondency and lamentations. And by this… we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and we see and hear and know what are foul and what are fair, what sweet and what unsavory… and by the same organ we become mad and delirious… View Post
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Be Generous and Brave
Quote of the day: No one is asking you to be original. We’re asking you to be generous and brave. ~SETH GODIN, author of Tales of the Revolution CREATIVITY Courage outweighs originality and and perfection in creativity, Creative Something AGING The real roots of midlife crisis, The Atlantic PRODUCTIVITY Business Travelers skip in-flight Wi-Fi to increase productivity and money, Forbes… View Post
MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: We Are All Confident Idiots
Quote of the day In many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an appropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge. ~DAVID DUNNING SOCIAL SCIENCES We are all confident idiots, Pacific Standard TECHNOLOGY What’s to be done about iTunes? Tweak? Strip? Split?, MacWorld Who’s winning… View Post
The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Quiet presents exciting discoveries on the dichotomy between introverts and extroverts. Many psychologists have been arguing over these two antagonistic concepts since Carl Jung stated the central building blocks of personality in Psychological Types Susan Cain tells us that one out of every two or three people you know are introverts, and that some of our greatest ideas, art, and inventions… View Post
WEEKEND LINKS ~Reads on Writing & Better Living: Share Your Wisdom
Quote of the day If wisdom were offered me on the one condition that I should keep it shut away and not divulge it to anyone, I should reject it. There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with. ~Roman Philosopher SENECA. MOTIVATION 7 pieces of wisdom that will change the… View Post