Thursday, August 25, 2022
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Instructions for living a life
“Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.”
― Mary Oliver
Karl Marx born May 5,1818
Karl Heinrich Marx FRSA (German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. His best-known titles are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto and the three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1883). Marx's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic, and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.
PHILOSOPHY DEFINED
"Philosophy is indeed just the doctrine that is meant to liberate man from an infinite number of finite purposes and goals, and to make him indifferent to them such that it is indeed all the same to him whether such things are or not."
G. W. F. Hegel
"We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living."
Thich Nhat Hanh
Saturday, April 23, 2022
Vegan Ideas
“The highest virtue consists in the non-killing of animals”
Swami Abhedanda, Hindu Philosopher
“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants.”
⁃Gandhi
“No animals need to die in order for me to live. And that makes me feel good.”
-Howard Lyman
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.”
-Leo Tolstoy, Author
“You have just dined. And however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals”
⁃Albert Einstein
“Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul”
-Pythagoras
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight”
-Albert Schweitzer
“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”
-Cesar Chavez
“[Going Vegan] is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable”
-Gary Francione
Friday, April 22, 2022
Lies
Sculptor Christophe Charbonnel
"A lie always writhes like a snake, which is never straight, whether it crawls or lies at rest; only when it is dead, it is straight and does not pretend."
- Martin Luther (1483 -1546) — German priest, theologian, writer and hymn writer.
Monday, November 8, 2021
Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between #AI and neuroscience
Sunday, November 7, 2021
Simplified Philosophy
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still. -Chinese Proverb
“Don’t worry about getting old, worry about thinking old.”
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. ~ W.C. Stone
Take care of your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.
Philosophy Simplified
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. ~ Robert Brault
William Blake
"Auguries of Innocence"
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the Palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Bison in the Autumn Mist
Bison in the Autumn Mist
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Bison in the Autumn Mist
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by Donna Kennedy
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Biodiversity Days 2017: E.O. Wilson, “Half-Earth: How to Save the Natura...
https://youtu.be/maDUbKdczTk
Edward Osborne Wilson is generally recognized as one of the leading scientists in the world.
He is also recognized as one of the foremost naturalists in both science and literature, as well as synthesizer in works stretching from pure biology across to the social sciences and humanities.
Wilson is acknowledged as the creator of two scientific disciplines (island biogeography and sociobiology), three unifying concepts for science and the humanities jointly (biophilia, biodiversity studies, and consilience), and one major technological advance in the study of global biodiversity (the Encyclopedia of Life).
Among more than one hundred awards he has received worldwide are the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Crafoord Prize (equivalent of the Nobel, for ecology) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and the International Prize of Biology of Japan; and in letters, two Pulitzer Prizes in non-fiction, the Nonino and Serono Prizes of Italy and COSMOS Prize of Japan.
For his work in conservation he has received the Gold Medal of the Worldwide Fund for Nature and the Audubon Medal of the Audubon Society. He is currently Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus at Harvard University, Chairman of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation Board of Advisors, and Chairman of the Half-Earth Council.
Monday, November 1, 2021
LEADING CHANGE: WHY THINGS GET WORSE BEFORE THEY GET BETTER
Things typically get worse before they get better. That’s not pessimism. It’s reality.
What happens when you ‘improve’ a practice or procedure at work? Productivity goes down. Frustration goes up. It takes time to learn and adapt.
Why things get worse before they get better:
Change curve:
The flat blue line represent business as it should be. The red star indicates a gap between current state and desired state. Pain and urgency are a function of the gap.
Successful change may yield greater than expected benefits.
Change means something that worked in the past goes away.
5 ways resistance responds to change:
- The longing effect. You complain and pine for the ‘good ole’ days.
- The stress effect. Before the change you knew your place. How will you fit in now?
- The clinging strategy. I’m not going to adapt. Maybe resistance will prevent change.
- The ignorance effect. You feel uncomfortable not knowing. Learning new skills requires relearning.
- The genius effect. You know better. People behind the change are idiots. Dealing with idiots is frustrating.
Discouragement and depression are bedfellows of prolonged frustration.
Navigating change:
Lessons from death:
The five stages of grief defined by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross apply to our response to unwanted change.
- Denial.
- Anger.
- Bargaining.
- Depression.
- Acceptance.
There is no guarantee you’ll get to stage five. You might gather your toys and run home instead of accepting an unwanted change. Or you might stay on the team, but persistently pull sideways.
5 stages in the emotional cycle of change*:
- Uninformed optimism. It’s going to be great.
- Informed pessimism. Wow! It’s not so great.
- Hopeful realism. This is harder than it looks.
- Informed optimism. We can do this.
- Completion. Yeah! We did it.
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Dan Millman
What makes leading change difficult?
What suggestions might you offer for successfully leading through change?
Bonus material:
*Kelley and Conner’s Emotional Cycle of Change – from MindTools.com
Template: Change Proposal (dpac.tas.gov.au)
On Death And Dying: Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
Ten Reasons People Resist Change (hbr.org)
The Eight Stages of Building Commitment | Conner Partners
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