7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose Embrace embarrassment. Feeling foolish is part of the path to achieving something important, something meaningful. The more a major life decision scares you, chances are the more you need to be doing it. Before you are able to be good at something and do something important, you must first suck at something and have no clue what you’re doing. That’s pretty obvious. Ergo, due to the transitive property of awesomeness, if you avoid anything that could potentially embarrass you, then you will never end up doing something that feels important. Yes, it seems that once again, it all comes back to vulnerability. Right now, there’s something you want to do, something you think about doing, something you fantasize about doing, yet you don’t do it. But what are those reasons? Great things are, by their very nature, unique and unconventional. Embrace embarrassment. The Answer to This Question Will Tell You:
Intelligent YouTube Channels Below, we have gathered together some of the most intelligent video collections on YouTube. A great place to find culturally enriching video... General Universities Spotlighted Collections YouTube EDUYouTube got a lot more intelligent when it launched YouTube EDU, a section of the site that centralizes all of its educational/academic content. Other University Collections " Etre courageux, parfois endurer, ... rompre " Philosophe et psychanalyste, elle insiste sur l'importance pour chacun de construire son propre destin. C'est à cette condition que la démocratie sera sauvegardée. Quand elle était jeune doctorante en philosophie, Cynthia Fleury rêvait à une existence en retrait, consacrée à la recherche et à l'écriture, loin du brouhaha de la cité... La vie en a décidé autrement, et la jeune femme a progressivement appris à occuper le devant de la scène. Pour s'engager tous azimuts. La petite quarantaine, habituée des débats et appréciée des médias pour son verbe tranché et la clarté de sa vision, Cynthia Fleury cumule aujourd'hui les activités : chercheur en philosophie politique et psychanalyste, elle enseigne à l'American University of Paris. Pourquoi ce titre, Les Irremplaçables, qui oriente le lecteur vers un horizon romanesque ? La littérature est bien plus puissante que la philosophie puisqu'elle ne produit pas de discours dogmatique, figé. De quelle façon ? Pourriez-vous donner un exemple ?
Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each By Maria Popova From the fine folks at the Open University comes 60-Second Adventures in Thought, a fascinating and delightfully animated series exploring six famous thought experiments. The Paradox of the Tortoise and Achilles comes from Ancient Greece and explores motion as an illusion: The Grandfather Paradox grapples with time travel: Chinese Room comes from the work of John Searle, originally published in 1980, and deals with artificial intelligence: Hilbert’s paradox of the Grand Hotel, proposed by German mathematician David Hilbert, tackles the gargantuan issue of infinity: The Twin Paradox, first explained by Paul Langevin in 1911, examines special relativity: Schrödinger’s Cat, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger in 1935, is a quantum mechanics mind-bender: For more such fascination and cognitive calisthenics, you won’t go wrong with Peg Tittle’s What If….Collected Thought Experiments in Philosophy . via Open Culture
Why You Should Learn to Tolerate Uncertainty and How To Get Better At It | Leveraging Adversity For most people tolerating uncertainty is about as comfortable as waiting in line. We don’t what will happen, when it will, or most importantly, how we should respond. Yet some cultures, as a whole, tolerate uncertainty better than others. This tendency was first noticed by Geert Hofstede, author of Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. Hofstede uncovered that some cultures prepare us to feel more comfortable with uncertainty than others. According to Hofstede, there are several factors that determine whether or not a culture has a high uncertainty avoidance. In education, cultures that rely heavily on educators to have the answers display high uncertainty avoidance compared to those where children are encouraged to be open-minded. On an individual level, people with a high uncertainty avoidance often like clear and predictable rules, tend to be formal in interactions, have a strict and rigid schedule, and are resistant to change. So how do we build uncertainty tolerance?
Learning How to Code Has Never Been Easier Programming isn’t just a niche specialization anymore, rather a necessity for tech-professionals regardless of the industry in which they work. Thankfully for them, it couldn’t be any easier.As such, there’s a big push lately to make coding literacy more widespread among the general populace. Even Mayor Bloomberg is getting in on the act, pledging to learn basic coding in 2012 as his New Year’s resolution. For those who want to learn to code, there are a number of online school coding programs that can guide them through the process. The main players are Codecademy, Team Tree House and Code Year, each with their own strengths, weaknesses and selling points—all who make it easy. Codecademy Probably the most popular website at the moment for those looking to learn coding is Codecademy, a platform that emphasizes doing while learning. Treehouse Though it doesn’t have the name recognition of Codecademy just yet, Team Tree House is nevertheless a powerful way to learn coding. Code Year
14 Lies Your Mind Tells You to Prevent Life Changes The mind is a wonderful thing. It’s also a complete liar that constantly tries to convince us not to take actions we know are good for us, and stops many great changes in our lives. Scumbag mind. I’ve had to learn to watch these rationalizations and excuses very carefully, in order to make the changes I’ve made in my life: a healthier diet, regular exercise, meditation, minimalism, writing daily, getting out of debt, quitting smoking, and so on. If I hadn’t learned these excuses, and how to counter them, I would never have stuck to these changes. Let’s expose the cowardly mind’s excuses and rationalizations once and for all. First, the main principle: the mind wants comfort, and is afraid of discomfort and change. OK, with that in mind, let’s go into the excuses: 1. It seems too hard, so we think we can’t stick to the change. 2. Just because someone else can do it, doesn’t mean we can, right? 3. 4. 5. 6. This is also true, but you can learn. 7. 8. 9. Well, true. 10. Yep, me too. 11. 12. 13.
Study skills articles in English and Spanish, study tips, teaching tips How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love “Find something more important than you are,” philosopher Dan Dennett once said in discussing the secret of happiness, “and dedicate your life to it.” But how, exactly, do we find that? Surely, it isn’t by luck. Every few months, I rediscover and redevour Y-Combinator founder Paul Graham’s fantastic 2006 article, How to Do What You Love. What you should not do, I think, is worry about the opinion of anyone beyond your friends. More of Graham’s wisdom on how to find meaning and make wealth can be found in Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age. Alain de Botton, modern philosopher and creator of the “literary self-help genre”, is a keen observer of the paradoxes and delusions of our cultural conceits. In The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, he takes his singular lens of wit and wisdom to the modern workplace and the ideological fallacies of “success.” His terrific 2009 TED talk offers a taste: One of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. 16.
Running too Fast It’s not simply on bad days that we feel we are running too fast; even when things are going well we just don’t have enough time to think. Does this matter? We shouldn’t simply dismiss this by suggesting that we are just not being efficient or dedicated enough, for if we really haven’t got time to think things through we are damaging ourselves. Even more importantly, ultimately parents screw up their kids. Let me explain. Cognitive scientists tell us that the brains of tiny children are a wondrous bundle of neurological possibilities, bequeathed to them genetically by their countless ancestors as preferred ways of making sense of the world. Those Hadza parents, true itinerants who owned nothing (not even herds, crops, clothes or buildings) are in many ways quite excellent parents. English toddlers are born with the same neurological software but, as noted in a recent study by Oxford University, many children today come to school never having been told a story at home.
Processus de deuil (2) (spiritualité) Les étapes de deuil (Kübler-Ross) Elisabeth Kûbler-Ross a défini 8 étapes du processus de deuil, qui s’appliquent également dans tout changement (il faut faire le deuil de la situation antérieure). Il est intéressant de noter : Qu’on passe séquentiellement par toutes ces étapes On reste plus ou moins longtemps sur chaque étape : certaines sont quasiment instantanées et d’autres peuvent être très longues. Cela dépend de chaque individu et du type de changement Dans certains cas difficiles, certains acteurs restent bloqués à une étape et n’arrivent pas à faire leur deuil jusqu’au bout Choc, déni : cette courte phase du deuil survient lorsqu'on apprend la perte. Ce modèle est intéressant car il permet de comprendre Que le changement peut être long et douloureux, qu’on passera par des phases difficiles et que cela est normal (changement implique crise) mais qu’il faut maintenir l’effort pour arriver jusqu’à la phase d’acceptation sans quoi le changement ne sera pas réellement ancré.
100 Websites You Should Know and Use (updated!) In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.