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Monday, October 13, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
What is your Goals?
This is a wrong approach to asking and not specific enough to get a proper answer.
The question is: What excite you?
Excitement is the best to describe Happiness, and way out of Boredom.
"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all." Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
- Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one (Albert Einstein)
The question is: What excite you?
Excitement is the best to describe Happiness, and way out of Boredom.
"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all." Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek
- Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
- Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one (Albert Einstein)
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Alternative Energy
All About: CSP - Concentrated Solar Power, cnn.com/ecosolutions
"CSP is attracting a list of high profile champions in the field of commerce, including venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Khosla was one of the early backers of Google, Amazon and AOL and his latest venture is to invest in CSP, according to The Toronto Star. He favors CSP over "clean coal," or Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) produced coal, arguing that CSP plants are cheaper and quicker to build."
Vinod Khosla Video Interview
Abengoa Solar, CSP Company
"CSP is attracting a list of high profile champions in the field of commerce, including venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. Khosla was one of the early backers of Google, Amazon and AOL and his latest venture is to invest in CSP, according to The Toronto Star. He favors CSP over "clean coal," or Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) produced coal, arguing that CSP plants are cheaper and quicker to build."
Vinod Khosla Video Interview
Abengoa Solar, CSP Company
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Projections
"We tend to assume others think, feel and react to the world the way we do. Psychologists call this tendency “projection”—we “project” our ideas and emotions onto others when we act as if others share them."
“Try to discover what it is you most dislike in others, what you most often criticize and condemn them for. A little elementary self-analysis may reveal that those qualities are hidden in the depths of your own mind and that in criticizing others in this way you are, in fact, unconsciously criticizing yourself.” (Bikshu Sangharakshita, Essence of Zen)
"When we recognize the places where we have a desire to develop, and begin to grow in those areas, an incredible thing happens: the world seems to grow with us. Others appear to take on the qualities we cultivate in ourselves."
From Are Your 'Projections' Limiting Your Success?
“Try to discover what it is you most dislike in others, what you most often criticize and condemn them for. A little elementary self-analysis may reveal that those qualities are hidden in the depths of your own mind and that in criticizing others in this way you are, in fact, unconsciously criticizing yourself.” (Bikshu Sangharakshita, Essence of Zen)
"When we recognize the places where we have a desire to develop, and begin to grow in those areas, an incredible thing happens: the world seems to grow with us. Others appear to take on the qualities we cultivate in ourselves."
From Are Your 'Projections' Limiting Your Success?
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Explaination Problems
Decision Making can come from 2 parts of the brain, Conscious and Unconscious.
When it comes from the conscious part, theory, story, and explanation are logical, based on step by step analysis.
But many times, the snap judgment that comes from the adaptive unconscious part, "the secret locked door part of the brain", thin slicing experiences, explaination usually comes from assumption with no real facts and figures, an assumption made from previous life experience. (Survival Instinct?)
Why people don't really know what they want? Why thinking about it, they want one thing. And when doing it, they accept to want other thing. (Adaptation?)
Why is it just plain better to learn from seeing and hand on experiences? Ask any Pro to give verbal instruction, and it just doesn't feel right.
Sometimes, it is better to say "I don't know" than make up a plausible cases?
Based on my trying to understand of The Locked Door, 2. The Storytelling Problem (Blink, page 62)
When it comes from the conscious part, theory, story, and explanation are logical, based on step by step analysis.
But many times, the snap judgment that comes from the adaptive unconscious part, "the secret locked door part of the brain", thin slicing experiences, explaination usually comes from assumption with no real facts and figures, an assumption made from previous life experience. (Survival Instinct?)
Why people don't really know what they want? Why thinking about it, they want one thing. And when doing it, they accept to want other thing. (Adaptation?)
Why is it just plain better to learn from seeing and hand on experiences? Ask any Pro to give verbal instruction, and it just doesn't feel right.
Sometimes, it is better to say "I don't know" than make up a plausible cases?
Based on my trying to understand of The Locked Door, 2. The Storytelling Problem (Blink, page 62)
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