Story of My Life: How Narrative Creates Personality
In Paul Murray's novel Skippy Dies, there’s a point where the main character, Howard, has an existential crisis.“‘It’s just not how I expected my life would be,'" he says. “‘What did you expect?’” a friend responds. “Howard ponders this.
Yes, Your Opinion Can Be Wrong
Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 6 a.m. I have had so many conversations or email exchanges with students in the last few years wherein I anger them by indicating that simply saying, "This is my opinion" does not preclude a connected statement from being dead wrong. It still baffles me that some feel those four words somehow give them carte blanche to spout batshit oratory or prose. And it really scares me that some of those students think education that challenges their ideas is equivalent to an attack on their beliefs.
Why 'Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things' Is So Satisfying
Oh! Why, hello. I didn't see you there.
Effort Is Not the Enemy of Compassion - Leslie Jamison
My job title is medical actor, which means I play sick. I get paid by the hour. Medical students guess my maladies. I'm called a standardized patient, which means I act toward the norms set for my disorders. I'm standardized-lingo SP for short.
Edwin H. Land
Don't do anything that someone else can do. Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. Edwin Herbert Land (May 7, 1909 – March 1, 1991) was an American scientist and inventor. Among other things, he invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and his retinex theory of color vision. Quotes[edit] We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.
A Guide for the Perplexed: Mapping the Meaning of Life and the Four Levels of Being
by Maria Popova How to harness the uniquely human power of “consciousness recoiling upon itself.” “Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction,” Rebecca Solnit wrote in her sublime meditation on how the art of getting lost helps us find ourselves, “and somewhere in the terra incognita in between lies a life of discovery.” But the maps we use to navigate that terra incognita — maps bequeathed to us by the dominant beliefs and standards of our culture — can often lead us further from ourselves rather than closer, leaving us discombobulated rather than oriented toward the true north of our true inner compass. A decade after his influential meditation on “Buddhist economics,” British economic theorist and philosopher E.F. Schumacher set out to explore how we can improve those maps and use them to better navigate the meaning of life in his magnificent 1977 essay collection A Guide for the Perplexed (public library).
A list of our favorite quotes
Updated: 01/31/2019 by Computer Hope Below are various quotes that Computer Hope has collected over the years that help inspire us in becoming the best at what we do. We hope that the below quotes will do the same thing for you. If you have a quote that has inspired you, let us know, and if it inspires us, we will be happy to post it on this page. Worry about being better; bigger will take care of itself. Think one customer at a time and take care of each one the best way you can.- Gary Comer, founder of Land's End
Kierkegaard on Our Greatest Source of Unhappiness
by Maria Popova Hope, memory, and how our chronic compulsion to flee from our own lives robs us of living. “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard memorably wrote in reflecting on why presence matters more than productivity. “On how one orients himself to the moment depends the failure or fruitfulness of it,” Henry Miller asserted in his beautiful meditation on the art of living.
