Showing posts with label human potential. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human potential. Show all posts
Friday, 15 January 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Just a little bit more
Morrison has another intersting article, "The Game that Changed My Life." This one's about being in the moment and seeing some patterns in life.
Friday, 17 October 2008
A quote from Google CEO, Eric Schmidt
In an article by Jeremy Caplan from TIME magazine, there is a quote from Google CEO Eric Schmidt that struck me as profound.
"When you're a small company, you have to do everything by yourself. As you get more established, you realise you'll never get everything done by yourself."
The article was about Google's growth and article mentioned how Google is similar to to Microsoft when Microsoft was eight years old. There is a sly mention at the end that Microsoft at age eight, was also trying to come up with the next big which turned out to be Word and Windows.
"When you're a small company, you have to do everything by yourself. As you get more established, you realise you'll never get everything done by yourself."
The article was about Google's growth and article mentioned how Google is similar to to Microsoft when Microsoft was eight years old. There is a sly mention at the end that Microsoft at age eight, was also trying to come up with the next big which turned out to be Word and Windows.
Sunday, 20 April 2008
What are some things you love to do?
Something is bugging me when I think about how our society values work. The work itself may have many forms other than the conventional meaning. For example, creating art or cultivating self mastery. Why is work so valued? What would we do when we no longer need to work? There has to be something wrong when so much of our lives revolve around work. Yet at the same time it doesn't feel right to have our lives revolve around anything else such as family alone.
Simple Living
A Playful Life
Technology and the Work Ethic
Sometimes I feel like the work ethic is a means to manipulate us. A number of articles I read described how the clergy used to do this.
What would utopia be like?
What is one thing that you would want to do?
Everybody has to work. What happens when we don't? Shouldn't we find at least one thing that we would love to do if we did not have to work and make sure that it do it at least once a day?
Simple Living
A Playful Life
Technology and the Work Ethic
Sometimes I feel like the work ethic is a means to manipulate us. A number of articles I read described how the clergy used to do this.
What would utopia be like?
What is one thing that you would want to do?
Everybody has to work. What happens when we don't? Shouldn't we find at least one thing that we would love to do if we did not have to work and make sure that it do it at least once a day?
Thursday, 17 April 2008
What do you love to do?
What do you love to do? Consider the main things you do from day to day. A large portion of your day might be for work. If you did not have to work, would you be doing your current work? You might set aside a portion of your day doing things related to food. If you had the means to have someone else prepare your food, would you prepare your own food? You might spend some time doing physical training. If some major breakthrough occurred and you didn't have to work out, would you still do so?
I have been thinking about what I and other people love to do. Sometimes when I work, I get the feeling that there is something else I would love to do but I don't know what it is. I feel that it is important to have something, something that you commit to doing so that I don't feel like my life is on hold.
Paul Graham has a great article titled, "How to do what you love" which touches on what I am trying to express.
What would you love to do if the things you normally do to take care of your life were taken care of for you? Is life simply about taking care of your life and enjoying the magic moments the occur here and there?
Brian Kim also has a great article, "How to find what you love to do."
A large portion of my day is about my research.
I have been thinking about what I and other people love to do. Sometimes when I work, I get the feeling that there is something else I would love to do but I don't know what it is. I feel that it is important to have something, something that you commit to doing so that I don't feel like my life is on hold.
Paul Graham has a great article titled, "How to do what you love" which touches on what I am trying to express.
What would you love to do if the things you normally do to take care of your life were taken care of for you? Is life simply about taking care of your life and enjoying the magic moments the occur here and there?
Brian Kim also has a great article, "How to find what you love to do."
A large portion of my day is about my research.
Wednesday, 12 December 2007
Empire Builder
The following is a quote from an introduction by Robert Ludlum for an omnibus edition printed in 1989. It contained "The Holocroft Covenant," "The Matarese Circle," and "The Bourne Identity." The quote is on page xii and it is in reference to the origin of the Trilateral Commission.
"Suppose such elections were not necessary; suppose the genesis of such an organization was not in the 1970s but, instead, in the 1870s - and it was secret. Suppose, rather than a renowned banker from a prominent family constantly in the media spotlight, the creator of this organization was a distant visionary, isolated from the world on, say, an island, a huge landmass of an island - say, Corsica. That visionary would have to be a great padrone, an empire builder who looked far beyond his own life span in the tradition of the true nineteenth-century barons of industry. He would be the founder of an infrastructural global dynasty that would shape the financial centers of the world for its own interests in ways never dreamed of by the Rothschilds in Europe. Whoever controls a government's economy ultimately controls the government."
The quote really makes me wonder what such a person is like and how they came about.
"Suppose such elections were not necessary; suppose the genesis of such an organization was not in the 1970s but, instead, in the 1870s - and it was secret. Suppose, rather than a renowned banker from a prominent family constantly in the media spotlight, the creator of this organization was a distant visionary, isolated from the world on, say, an island, a huge landmass of an island - say, Corsica. That visionary would have to be a great padrone, an empire builder who looked far beyond his own life span in the tradition of the true nineteenth-century barons of industry. He would be the founder of an infrastructural global dynasty that would shape the financial centers of the world for its own interests in ways never dreamed of by the Rothschilds in Europe. Whoever controls a government's economy ultimately controls the government."
The quote really makes me wonder what such a person is like and how they came about.
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Conciousness & Clarity
I've been reading a book by David R. Hawkins called "Power vs. Force," which has presented some ideas that have really resonated with my thinking over the past few months. I have also been writing about some of the difficulties that I have been having problems about in my life.
One problems I was writing about was that there are times that I can see so clearly things in my life that need to be different and then there are times when I am in a completely different state and lose all clarity and forget.
Well after reading a bit of "Power vs. Force" I decide to have a look around for other materials on human consciousness when I stumbled upon a post by Steve Pavlina, who had also been reading the same book. The post was called "Levels of Consciousness." One of the paragraphs really stood out for me,
"When you temporarily experience the higher levels, you can see where you must go next. You have one of those moments of clarity where you understand that things have to change. But when you sink into the lower levels, that memory becomes clouded."
It is another one of those cases of finding what you are looking for. Simple ideas, I know but when you are in a different state, it is so easy to forget.
One problems I was writing about was that there are times that I can see so clearly things in my life that need to be different and then there are times when I am in a completely different state and lose all clarity and forget.
Well after reading a bit of "Power vs. Force" I decide to have a look around for other materials on human consciousness when I stumbled upon a post by Steve Pavlina, who had also been reading the same book. The post was called "Levels of Consciousness." One of the paragraphs really stood out for me,
"When you temporarily experience the higher levels, you can see where you must go next. You have one of those moments of clarity where you understand that things have to change. But when you sink into the lower levels, that memory becomes clouded."
It is another one of those cases of finding what you are looking for. Simple ideas, I know but when you are in a different state, it is so easy to forget.
Sunday, 25 November 2007
Rest and Resistance
There are times when I don't feel like doing anything at all, except as much of nothing as I can so that I can feel rested. The result is that I often feel restless. One of the things that I have noticed is that I feel much better, much more rested when I first push against some resistance.
This resistance can be pretty much anything. For me, it is either some weight lifting or some work on my research or game development.
To sum it up, I've become aware that when you want to become rested, first push against some resistance. It sounds counter-intuitive but now that you have become aware of it as well, I hope it might be useful for you too.
This resistance can be pretty much anything. For me, it is either some weight lifting or some work on my research or game development.
To sum it up, I've become aware that when you want to become rested, first push against some resistance. It sounds counter-intuitive but now that you have become aware of it as well, I hope it might be useful for you too.
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