Courage is borne out of vulnerability, not strength. This finding of Brené Brown’s research on shame and “wholeheartedness” shook the perfectionist ground beneath her own feet. And now it’s inspiring millions to reconsider the way they live, parent, and navigate relations with members of the opposite gender.
See more at www.onbeing.org/program/brene-brown-on-vulnerability/4928
There might be more physical projection in a taller athlete, but there is more motor learning projection in a shorter one. #differentfacets
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“Theory is founded on abstraction, abstraction means throwing away detail for the sake of a bit of generality, and so things are always “more complicated than that”—for any value of “that”. Connoisseurship gets its aesthetic bite, and a little kick of symbolic violence, from the easy insinuation that the person trying to simplify things is, sadly, a bit less sophisticated a thinker than the person pointing out that things are more complicated.”
Adam Savage: “And there’s two types of those decisions. There’s ones in terms of your career and the creative output that you want to do. And the other is actually I think is even more important – it’s about your quality of life. You know, we make decisions based on our careers, but also on our families and our days, how much sleep we want to get, where we want to live, and how we want our job to feel. I’ve gotten more out of thinking how I want a work experience to feel than I have about what I actually want to be doing there. So really think about your quality of life – about the way you want to take care of your partner, your family and your kids, your parents. All of those things really matter in terms of achieving your long-term goals.”
“The political institutions found in many citizen-centered Greek states — but especially in democratic states and most especially in democratic Athens — put specialization and innovation on overdrive, by encouraging individuals to take more rational risks and develop more distinctive skills. People willingly invested in their own education and took the risks of entrepreneurship because they knew that they had legal recourse if and when a powerful individual or corrupt official tried to steal their profits.”
“On Facebook, for instance, a Christian evangelical can rest easy that every tidbit of information that they want to see will be tailored to their preferences: traditional marriage, Dave Ramsey quotes, any headline from the Drudge Report, and every happy moment produced by their closest friends. On Twitter, our friends and family are confronted by diverse truths with little practice in methods for interacting with diverse minds. It is not easy.”
from: August 31, 2015 at 09:39AM
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Half of all Americans live in the red counties, half live in the orange counties pic.twitter.com/lKsoUkmt0Q
— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) August 30, 2015
from: August 29, 2015 at 08:28AM
“In 1962 A.D., as our modern era of globalization was just beginning, the economist Jan Tinbergen — who would later share the first Nobel in economic science — noted something curious: Trade within and between countries followed a mathematical formula. He called it the Gravity Model, sort of an E=mc2 for global business. It comes with an imposing formula: Fij = G(Mi x Mj)/Dij. Which, simplified, means that trade between two markets will equal the size of the two markets multiplied together and then divided by their distance. (The model gets its name from its mathematical similarity to the equation in physics that describes gravitational pull.)”
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“…chimpanzees have been using stone tools in the rainforests of Ivory Coast for at least 4300 years. The chimpanzee Stone Age began at least that early, and maybe even earlier, says Boesch. However, “it is very hard to predict where you would find soil layers that would be old enough to look at earlier periods.””
So cool! Encinal High School is backdrop to new @HTC ad focusing on the power of social media: http://t.co/M3NRkN5YeB.
— Alameda Unified (@AUSDNews) August 26, 2015