Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you [...]
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Apollinaire Said
May 30, 2011
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Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! COME TO THE EDGE! And they came And he pushed And they flew.
Read more How happy have you decided to be?
February 19, 2011
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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” This sounds as if it could be an NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) expression but it’s a quote from Abraham Lincoln. I guess much is not new, it’s just repackaged! Still a great quote.
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February 16, 2011
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I am just back from a near-perfect conference. I go to conferences because I am attracted by the sound of the headline speakers. There is the potential for interesting conversations, and hopefully there is a nice venue. And so often I have come back the speakers were OK – they had obviously done their thing too many [...]
Read more Depression and giving up unattainable goals
November 17, 2010
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I found this article in The Economist. It suggests that depression has evolved to protect us from striving to reach the unreachable. Just as pain stops warns us to stop doing something that could be harmful, so depression does a similar thing. The hypothesis is that, as pain stops you doing damaging physical things, so low mood stops [...]
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