Archive for January, 2008
Looking for Blindspots
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Isabella Mori at Change Therapy has a great post today on our blindspots.
The first thing of course is to acknowledge that we have them.
She then lists five reactions that could alert us to one of our blindspots.
They are simple and practical. I think this is one thing that could really help us and [...]Four Reasons Why Disgust Is Good.
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Disgust doesn’t always feel good - in fact it often feels revolting. Partly this is due to our attempts to restrain it. Wishing to retain control and not vomit doesn’t help us feel any better. So part of the bad feeling is not expressing our disgust. The [...]A Great Blog on Activism and Personal Change
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There is a great blog on being an activist. It is called Ripples of Improvement Making a Difference With Personal Responsibility, and is authored by Cathy Crovis.
Cathy is an environmental activist and her particular concern is the Chesapeake Bay (a major body of water in the US). [...]Four Thoughts On The (Not So Great) Importance of Choosing
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This post was prompted by the comments on my post, T.I.N.A. is dumb. This post said that to think there is only one option is usually silly - that there are usually lots of options. I thought this was good news. Those who commented pointed out that it can be bad [...]Three Things I’ve learnt from reading history
I’m one of those people who reads alot. Mostly it is detective fiction for relaxation. But another interest is non-fiction about ideas and ‘big histories’. By ‘big histories’ I mean those books that take on either a big subject, like the history of technology or time, or big time periods, like the history of humanity or [...]
A Great Blog to Improve How You Live
John Allison has a great blog called Technology for Living.
The technology he means is not the stuff you buy in shops - it is the means we use to improve our lives: thoughts, feelings, habits, new behaviours, ways of seeing and so on. So, ‘technology’ is in one sense a metaphor - using it [...]I want to talk about spirit: but I don’t know if I can
This post is explaining (as well as I can) a problem that I see. It doesn’t provide any solutions, but I hope you will agree that it is an important problem; and share through the comments any ideas or approaches you may have to the problem.
What’s my problem? My problem is that I don’t know [...]
