December 2009
Study: Experiences make us happier than... →
psychotherapy:
…Another reason for increased happiness in experiences, the researchers found, was that people felt a greater sense of vitality or “being alive” during the experience and in reflection, Howell said.
“As nice as your new computer is, it’s not going to make you feel alive,” he said.
Most psychologists who study the phenomenon say people adapt to a new purchase in six to eight...
No one famous has changed my life.
No one famous has changed my life.
Nothing written or caught on film has changed me as a person
Although some of those things may influence me
No one famous has changed my life.
Cobain’s lyrics or death did not make me want to turn things around
I change by experience.
No one famous has changed my life.
Obama’s words of hope did not make me want to turn things around
It was the things I lived...
rats-with-cameras:
that person did NOT change your life.
I have I piece I wrote the other day, related to this, I’ll post soon enough.
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“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils”
– Louis Hector Berlioz
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Feeling the pain of others (Neurophilosophy) →
psychotherapy:
HOW do you react when you see somebody else in pain? Most of us can empathize with someone who has been injured or is sick - we can quite easily put ourselves “in their shoes” and understand, to some extent, what they are feeling. We can share their emotional experience, because observing their pain activates regions of the brain which are involved in processing the emotional...
Guitar, Amp, Cab, all loaded in the car, gotta put some gas, head south and play the night.
What does a doodle do? It boosts your memory and... →
psychotherapy:
You know you’re bored when you start shading in the squares of your notebook. Apparently it’s a habit that could be helping you to concentrate. In a neat little experiment, Jackie Andrade asked forty participants to listen to a monotone two and a half minute phone message about arrangements for a party. They were told the message would be dull, that there was no need to memorise...
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“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in...”
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Scott Adams
So many doors I can open.
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Rain, Its good and all but when your in the middle of your run at six in the morning with nowhere to take shelter……… Rain can suck my balls.
Good Morning, I have to Run.
knowing is a two edged sword of what you know and what’s ignored wisdom is a liquor store tastes so sweet just wait till you wake up in the morning
http://ronnydream.blogspot.com/ →
Hail Mary, sick and proud And holding aloft the light That would burn through a heaving night And then leave us upon the rocks And the child who is nearly born Waits just to do you harm Like the shock of a broken arm Or a love that would burn you blind Wild and unbroken
shearwater “hail mary”
“Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error....”
– Louis Aragon
“Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself...”
– Karen Horney
