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February 7th 2023
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Proponents of this new science believe that experiencing awe may be an essential pathway to physical and mental well-being. By taking us out of ourselves and expanding our sense of time, it counteracts the self-focus and narcissism that is the root of so much modern disenchantment. To experience awe, to fully open ourselves up to it, helps us to live happier, healthier lives.

A rather extensive article by Henry Wismayer, but well worth the read: Finding Awe Amid Everyday Splendor. Really enjoying the articles Noema Magazine puts out lately.

noemamag.com/finding-awe-amid-everday-splendor/
There is brave in soft.
There is wild in simple.
There is peace in thunder.
There are songs in stillness.

— There is… by Jenthe Emma, filed under well said, February 7th 2023
February 4th 2023
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When a person aspires to be a brand, they forfeit everything that is truly glorious about being human. Building any brand requires consensus. When we position ourselves as a brand, we are forced to project an image of what we believe most people will approve of and admire and buy into. The moment we cater our creativity to popular opinion is the precise moment we lose our freedom and autonomy.

Designer and brand consultant Debbie Millman about The personal brand paradox and how social media (with its followers, likes and click-throughs) is pushing the long-lasting concept of the ‘personal brand’ at the present time.

wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/personal-brand-paradox-debbie-millman
January 25th 2023
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They found that when people made a very subtle shift moving from ‘What should I do?’ to ‘What could I do?’ they generated many more solutions and better solutions.

This is how to solve problems more effectively with one simple change by Daniel H. Pink.

danpink.com/pinkcast/pinkcast-4-31-this-is-how-to-solve-problems-more-effectively-with-one-simple-change
When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying, ‘You’re too this, or I’m too this.’ That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are.

— Ram Dass on turning people into trees, filed under well said, January 12th 2023
December 30th 2022
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© Jody Mac (via YouTube)

The reality of your life is always now.

The backgroundmusic is quite corny and the clips are mainly stock material, but I still really like the video Jody Mac put together using excerpts from the amazing talk “Death and the Present Moment” by Sam Harris. His entire talk (about an hour) is on Youtube, too, if you want to start your year with some excellent food for thought:

youtu.be/ITTxTCz4Ums
You really can change the world if you care enough.

— Marian Wright Edelman on change, filed under well said, December 29th 2022
Design is intelligence made visible.

— Alina Wheeler on design, filed under well said, December 9th 2022
I don’t know what I’m doing. And if you don’t know what to do, there’s actually a chance of doing something new. As long as you know what you’re doing, nothing much of interest is going to happen.

— The benefits of not knowing according to Philip Glass, filed under well said, December 8th 2022
December 7th 2022
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© Netflix (via YouTube)

In candid conversations with actor Jonah Hill, leading psychiatrist Phil Stutz explores his early life experiences and unique, visual model of therapy.

Looking forward to watching this one.

netflix.com/de/title/81387962
December 2nd 2022
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© Blaise Hayward (via Vimeo)

This short film tells the story of Walter Strohmeyer who for almost all of his 90 years has been swimming in the waters off Long Island. An honest and at times heartfelt story about the power of ritual.

The Swimmer by Blaise Hayward is a wonderful little short, I love everything about it.

blaisehaywardstudio.com
The system will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling … their ideas, their version of history, their wars … their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We may be many and they be few … Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

— Arundhati Roy on “The system”, filed under well said, December 2nd 2022
When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck.

— Peter Funch on inventing, filed under well said, November 5th 2022