The ancient Greeks were the first to categorize individual personalities into broad types: Choleric (irritable and hot-tempered), Sanguine (passionate and courageous), phlegmatic (calm and unemotional), melancholic (prone to depression and despondency). While the Greek model was focused on nature, modern models focus more on nurture, like the 16 personality types of the Myers-Briggs test. I think personality profiles are valuable… View Post
WEEKEND LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Kindness And Generosity Glue Couples Together
Quote of the day Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity. ~ EMILY ESFAHANI RELATIONSHIPS Masters of Love, The Atlantic ACHIEVEMENT How trashing others holds you back, 99u PSYCHOLOGY We make our big life decisions at 29, 39, and so on, Science of us AMAZON Review Amazon Fire HDX 8.9, Wired TECHNOLOGY App predicts taste… View Post
Igniting The Creative Fire That Lives Within Us All
In Cirque du Soleil: The Spark, Lyn Heward, former President of Cirque du Soleil, tells the story of an ordinary man searching for meaning in his life and work. Here are 5 tips to ignite the creative fire that lives within us all: 1. Creativity means courage: Creativity is first and foremost all about courage—a willigness to take risks, to try… View Post
THURSDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Everyone Has His Mission In Life
Quote of the day Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. ~Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning HEALTH If you keep texting, your head will fall off, The Atlantic BOOKS The Pages Project brings the beauty of physical books online, Mashable CREATIVITY Inside the box,… View Post
Happiness Comes From Within And From Without, According To Psychologists
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. ~SHAKESPEARE How Can Humans Find Happiness? Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist and teacher, presents different hypothesis: 1.- It comes from getting what you want but it’s short-lived; 2.- It comes from within and cannot be obtained by making the world conform to your desires; 3.- He concludes it… View Post
HUMP DAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing and Better Living: Read a Lot and Widely
Quote of the day Productive writers read a lot, and widely. ~RACHEL TOOR THE MIND How humans learn to communicate with their eyes, WSJ BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS When to book your plane ticket: a guide, The Atlantic LIFESTYLE The first site to exchange homes for vacations only for designers and visual artists (sorry, no writers), Behomm BOOKS How the Strand… View Post
Prose Is First Of All An Attitude Of Mind
What aspect of the world do you want to disclose? What change do you want to bring into the world by this disclosure? In What is Literature? Jean-Paul Sartre, a French existentialist philosopher, novelist and playwright, challenges us, the writers, to formulate some questions: ‘What is writing?’ ‘Why write?’ ‘For whom does one write?’ and ultimately ‘What is Literature?’ The writer… View Post