I ask myself, “What are 10 things in my life from the last hour that I can be grateful for?”
I ask myself “What are 10 doable things that I can do in the next hour that I’ll be happy I did?”
Lots of amendmends to make, but you get the spirit. I was at about no. [...]
Paul Watzlawick about paradox – profound, readable, entertaining, educational, soul healing. Here’s a sample from Oxymoronica, a collection by Marty Grothe (via Cool Tools):
The superfluous is the most necessary.
Voltaire
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret Mead
I shut my eyes in order to see.
Paul Gauguin
We learn from history that we do not [...]
Prodigy as in 8th place in the world.
[...] Chess correspondents Malcolm Pein and David Norwood describe her [Judit Polgar] as ‘incredibly personable and nice’ and ‘very sweet, quite fun and not big-headed’. Both men were beaten by her at a time when [...]
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(Of course, the NLP aficionados can recognize an oxymoronic effect of visually squashing two conflicting parts. )
MBA or PhD ~ 40 speciality books, World class ~ 200 speciality books.
Read, duh – instead of TV, gaming, web browsing (yea, guilty:) – a good book is more rounded – most web content is enticement to go from link to link to a buy page, so select & buy/rent directly – you save time, [...]
Similarly, the cerebral regions of the blind people change when they compensate the lack of vision with the tactile sense.
“Mind’s Eye – A painting by Turkish artist Esref Armagan (left), blind since birth. Scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess have studied Armagan to see how his visual cortex functions when painting.” [...]
It’s not just about programmers, but about excellence and mastery:
The apprentice learns the rules, the master, well, masters the rules, but the artist bends them. And in order to bend the rules, he needs to delve into their core, their source of freedomisation. (I know, yet another barbarism :)
softwarebyrob.com: Personality Traits of the Best Software [...]
