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Don’t be a Victim
1 Comment Published by Jim April 2nd, 2008 in learning, mind, philosophy, quote, religion, thoughtI could write about this in great detail. It is something I believe strongly about, but there is just one point I would like to make right now. I say this in full realization that such a statement could be considered self-referential.
Anyone who suggests that you are a victim of others, is trying to victimize [...]
Spinning Dots Illusion
0 Comments Published by Jim March 31st, 2008 in creativity, learning, mind, self-improvement, thoughtI love optical illusions. First of all, they are cool, secondly the good ones teach us something about the way our eyes and brains work. One of the neet things about the internet is that it makes it really easy to share animated optical illusions. Check this out out:
If you follow the pink dos with [...]
So I was leaving the grocery store last night when a Girl Scout asked me “Would you like to buy some Girl Scout Cookies?” I bought a box, but I also offered her some advice on selling. While, I have not used these techniques to sell cookies directly, I suspect they might would. I thought [...]
Christmas Paid for Itself
0 Comments Published by Jim January 17th, 2008 in business, creativity, family, learning, successThis is something really cool that I have been meaning to blog about since before Thanksgiving. Denise pointed out that I haven’t been updating my blog near enough (ugh, I just meta-blogged!)
So we wanted to get our family a Nintendo Wii for Christmas. They run about $225 - $300, which is reasonable, [...]
What Kind of Thinker are You?
1 Comment Published by Jim September 10th, 2007 in creativity, learning, mind, philosophy, self-improvement, thoughtYou can take the test on BBC’s Leonardo Da Vinici page.
Here is my results:
You are an Interpersonal Thinker
Interpersonal thinkers:
Like to think about other people, and try to understand them
Recognise differences between individuals and appreciate that different people have different perspectives
Make an effort to cultivate effective relationships with family, friends and colleagues
Like interpersonal thinkers, Leonardo had [...]
High IQ or High EQ?
1 Comment Published by Jim July 13th, 2007 in creativity, learning, mind, philosophy, quote, self-improvement, success, thoughtWith IQ being Intellectual Quotient (ability to understand and organize information), and EQ being Emotional Quotient (ability to understand and organize people). If we were to assume that they are mutually exclusive so a person could only have one or the other, which would you want?
Why?
I would want a high EQ. That would make it [...]
I like math, but might not know as much about it as some real math nuts. I was reading the web comic XKCD, which has a lot of math jokes. I read this comic titled e to the pi times i (language warning) which says if you take e to the power of π times [...]
Science of Getting Rich
0 Comments Published by Jim May 24th, 2007 in books, learning, philosophy, self-improvement, success, thought, wealthI just finished reading the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. An amazing book. It was published about 100 years ago too. You can read the whole thing on WikiSource. That is where I got it from too. I formatted it all nice and printed it out.
Wallace has [...]
The Merits of Practice
1 Comment Published by Jim March 16th, 2007 in creativity, learning, mind, quote, self-improvement, success, thoughtMy wife just sent me this quote, which I really like.
“Practice until you get it right. Then practice until you can’t get it wrong.”
Don’t know who it is by though. I’ll research that. . .
I am also a fan of the differentiation that practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes permanent. Perfect practice makes [...]