You’ve heard the expression “Get lost!”, surely, but have you ever thought about how hard it would be to do? Think about it. When was the last time you were lost? I mean, totally, completely, utterly lost. Lost as in, there is no way to get back to where you came from, get on to [...]
Cassandra cried, and curs’d th’ unhappy hour; Foretold our fate; but, by the god’s decree, All heard, and none believ’d the prophecy. -The Aeneid, Virgil, Project Gutenberg *This post continues a line of thought from the previous post, exploring how we as a society are reluctant to give credence to situations in which people bear [...]
Cassandra cried, and curs’d th’ unhappy hour; Foretold our fate; but, by the god’s decree, All heard, and none believ’d the prophecy. -The Aeneid, Virgil, Project Gutenberg I think the original Cassandra could have been a girl or woman speaking of being sexually molested or raped.* She speaks the truth, but, perhaps because her accusations [...]
Our post earlier this week linked to Yale scientist Laurie Santos’ research on choices humans make, especially the foolish ones related to money. Santos and her team invented a monkey currency of sorts, to see how monkeys fair at the market. In addition to studying how monkey make economic decisions, Santos observed that the monkeys [...]
Another intriguing Ted talk: “monkey economics” by Laurie Santos. Santos is a Yale scientist researching why humans make poor economic decisions. She studied capuchin monkeys for clues as to why we may make the choices we do. (She also slams financial advisors a couple of times while she’s at it, for guiding the rest of [...]
English. What an interesting language. I’ve heard that prepositions are some of the most difficult things to learn in a second language, and I can well believe it. Although “up” is the opposite of “down”, when I ask you to “sit up” I am not asking you to do the opposite of “sit down”. When [...]
I began this blog one year ago on June 30, 2009. Today, June 30, 2010, I made my 100th post. (Well, I also wrote the 92nd through 99th posts today, too. A little end-of-year procrastination combined with a last-minute surge in my effort to make it to 100.) When I began this blog, I was [...]
Back to Radiolab. A show called Oops, about errors in judgment and/or execution, and the consequences of those errors. Very uncomfortable. But, of course, since it’s Radiolab, thought-provoking.
There are many goal-setting techniques. Self-help books, coaches, and teachers all have preferred goal-setting methods. Create your vision. Identify your core values. Journal. Talk to friends and loved ones. Etc. I choose my goals in a less linear way. As I learn about new things, I consider whether I’d want to be engaged in that [...]
Once upon a time a little girl walked through the woods. She came across a berry bush. Her mother had told her never to eat the berries for they were poisonous. Her father had told her never to eat the berries. Her grandmother, aunts, uncles, older cousins, neighbors, and so on, had all told her [...]