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Two experiments revealed that (i) people can more accurately predict their affective reactions to a future event when they know how a neighbor in their social network reacted to the event than when they know about the event itself and (ii) people do not believe this. Undergraduates made more accurate predictions about their affective reactions …
The “I am doing” mind hack: Being present is important, but I find it hard to be mindful when I’m busy or stuck in my head. To get yourself back into the moment while doing something common, such as drinking your morning coffee, try this re-centering technique: Simply tell yourself what you’re doing right now …
[R]eminiscent of John Cleese’s sharp observation (cf. Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind): “Sadly, most of us today believe that a computer is of more use to us than a wise person.” ZhurnalyWiki: Buddhism Is Not What You Think Source: zhurnaly.com
Before the fact, wise people often look like fools. In contrast, experts often look like fools afterward. ZhurnalyWiki: Buddhism Is Not What You Think Source: zhurnaly.com
Toecovers
The latest memoir we’ve been reading is Betty MacDonald‘s “The Plague and I,” the 1948 follow-up to her wildly successful 1945 humorous memoir about being a chicken-farmer, “The Egg and I.” (The latter book also introducing Ma and Pa Kettle into popular culture, so please appreciate the research that goes into these posts.) “The Plague …
Kindle for Mac
In late August, I had bought Timothy Pychyl’s e-book The Procrastinator’s Digest via Xlibris for use with Adobe Digital Editions. (I subscribe to Pychyl’s iProcrastinate podcast.) However, trying to get Adobe Digital Editions set up and registered on my MacBook was a pain, and then my credit card number was stolen suspiciously close to the …
Panic
Alex Lickerman is a physician and practices Nichiren Buddhism, and he writes a weekly blog titled Happiness in this World. Each post is calm, sane, sensible, well-reasoned, and usually includes those boldface steps on things to do or remember that us blog-readers love to bookmark yet never follow up on. His post on How to …
The Suck Fairy
From Jo Walton at Tor.com comes the idea of The Suck Fairy, that scourge of re-reading that somehow curdles fondly remembered books upon second reading. Working alongside the Suck Fairy are her siblings the Racism Fairy, the Sexism Fairy, and the Homophobia Fairy, according to Walton. One might add the Bad Writing Fairy; sometimes re-reading …
My nephew’s philosophy
My brother’s oldest son, Stuart, was asked by his teacher what he liked about school. He answered, “It’s not about what I like, it’s what I have to get used to.”
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