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Via TED, this is like my mindfulness class in a nutshell (less the meditation practice): Srikumar Rao says we spend most of our lives learning to be unhappy, even as we strive for happiness. At Arbejdsglaede Live! 2009, he teaches us how to break free of the “I’d be happy if…” mental model, and embrace [...]
I finally signed up for a mindfulness meditation course to begin later this fall.
Anthropologist Wade Davis of National Geographic in an absolutely mind-blowing TED talk from 2003. I’m floored. I caught a bit of this guy today on the radio while driving back from the garage and wanted to find out more. He’s giving this year’s Massey Lecture.
During an all-hours-of-the-night conversation with one of my best friends, I was asked by him, strictly from a place of genuine curiosity, how someone as educated and intelligent as I appear to be could “fall for” or “buy into” religion (“fairy tales, wizards and magic” as he put it). It’s a valid question, one I’ve [...]
Remember when I said, a while back, that I wanted to try my best to alternate the content of my posts between the usual complaining, bitching and caustic deprecation, and something that’s actual positive? You know, try to not be so “clever” and angst-ridden and try to be more open and joyful? Well, today is [...]
As seen via fsbrainstorm, here comes the charmingly quirky and/or possibly infuriating online quiz called Battleground God! I suggest you go do the quiz, then come back here to see what I think about it, which I have written below. The major problem I have with this quiz is the same problem that, I feel, [...]