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  • Empathy — minus reason?
    Empathy — minus reason?
    October 3, 2014 1 Comment on Empathy — minus reason?

    The Week

    “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eyes,” writes author and prominent business-world thinker Daniel Pink. “Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate, but it makes the world a better place.”

    A lovely thought. But new research suggests it isn’t always true.

    A paper just published in the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin provides evidence that feelings of empathy toward a distressed person can inspire aggressive behaviour.

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  • So, are YOU meeting your goals?
    So, are YOU meeting your goals?
    July 17, 2014 Comments Off on So, are YOU meeting your goals?

    Psychology Today

    One inherent problem with goal setting is related to how the brain works. Recent neuroscience research shows the brain works in a protective way, resistant to change. Therefore, any goals that require substantial behavioural change, or thinking-pattern change, will automatically be resisted. The brain is wired to seek rewards and avoid pain or discomfort, including fear. When the fear of failure creeps into the mind of the goal setter, it becomes a “demotivator,” with a desire to return to known, comfortable behaviour and thought patterns.

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  • Meaning in meaninglessness.
    Meaning in meaninglessness.
    June 4, 2014 Comments Off on Meaning in meaninglessness.

    Brain Pickings

    I understood that faith is not merely “the evidence of things not seen”, etc., and is not a revelation (that defines only one of the indications of faith, is not the relation of man to God (one has first to define faith and then God, and not define faith through God); it does not only agree with what has been told one (as faith is most usually supposed to be), but faith is a knowledge of the meaning of human life in consequence of which man does not destroy himself but lives.

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  • Still thinking positive?
    Still thinking positive?
    February 21, 2014 Comments Off on Still thinking positive?

    New Yorker –

    Moreover, as the journalist Oliver Burkeman noted in “The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking,” “Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the future, the positive thinker ends up being less prepared, and more acutely distressed when things eventually happen that he can’t persuade himself to believe are good.”

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  • So, what if Avatar wasn’t science fiction?
    So, what if Avatar wasn’t science fiction?
    January 20, 2014 Comments Off on So, what if Avatar wasn’t science fiction?

    Kurzweil

    Orch OR was harshly criticized from its inception, as the brain was considered too “warm, wet, and noisy” for seemingly delicate quantum processes. However, evidence has now shown warm quantum coherence in plant photosynthesis, bird brain navigation, our sense of smell, and brain microtubules.

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  • How wise people think.
    How wise people think.
    November 24, 2013 Comments Off on How wise people think.

    Dailygood

    Wisdom is the ability to make sound judgments and choices based on experience. It’s a virtue according to every great philosophical and religious tradition, from Aristotle to Confucius and Christianity to Judaism, Islam to Buddhism, and Taoism to Hinduism. According to the book From Smart to Wise, wisdom distinguishes great leaders from the rest of the pack. So what does it take to cultivate wisdom?

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  • How to send people to their deaths to fight for a cause.
    How to send people to their deaths to fight for a cause.
    November 8, 2013 Comments Off on How to send people to their deaths to fight for a cause.

    Berkeley

    These are two different ways of being cooperative-cooperation on different terms. A lot of our political disputes are about individualism versus collectivism: To what extent are we each responsible for ourselves, and to what extent are we all in this together? We see this, for example, in issues such as the health care debate and climate change.

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  • No longer dirty?
    No longer dirty?
    May 24, 2013 Comments Off on No longer dirty?

    Ransomed Heart

    Firstly, read the whole post. It’s worth it.

    Stasi and I just spent a weekend together in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where we wandered for hours through art galleries and gardens, looking for those works of art that particularly captured us. Toward the afternoon of our second day, Stasi asked me, “Have you seen one painting of a naked man?”

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  • I think I’ve seen this before…
    I think I’ve seen this before…
    April 1, 2013 Comments Off on I think I’ve seen this before…

    Falkvinge on Infopolicy

    If you want leadership in a swarm, you stand up and say “I’m going to do X because I think it will accomplish Y. Anybody who wants to join me in doing X is more than welcome.” Anybody in the swarm can stand up and say this, and everybody is encouraged to.

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