Brian Robertson wrote the Rule of Individual Action:
No matter how clearly we’ve defined the rules, policies, and processes,
we will occasionally see a need for action which doesn’t fit within the defined system. In most organizations we're tempted to hide such Individual Action for fear of blame, but doing so costs the...
The mental life of your common or garden human, however, is a lot more complicated. That's because we are "aware of being aware". This allows us to reflect upon ourselves and our feelings and, in an ideal world, make insightful decisions and judgements. This state, dubbed secondary consciousness, is thought to be unique to humans.
What is the root of anger? What causes us to be angry?
What would cause us to be so stuck in wanting to make things happen our way that we cannot let go of something even after it has already happened? “It did not happen my way, so move on!” Why are we so stuck on thinking that things have to happen our way? Why are we so angry and why...
As the months have gone by, I've become more and more committed to the work I'm doing on this blog, and developing these ideas and relationships. It started as just a blog for ideas in October, and now has been my portal to the world for sharing my passion with others. Ideally, I would like to continue to do this as my career or life work. As...
Rapid Eye Movement As It Relates To Lucid & Vivid Dreams And Their Remembrance
Chapter 1 The Idea Of Where I'm At
You see this is why I dont sleep. First I stay up way too late playing my guitar stoned watching trash reality shows, until finally as the sun starts to come up I decide that I might be tired enough to burn out. It...
Chaos makes a scream seem real
Researchers dissect movies to learn what fear sounds like
By Rachel Ehrenberg
Web edition : Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
As horror-flick titles go, Night of the Living Chaos and Rosemary’s Nonlinearity aren’t the catchiest. But filmmakers know that chaos — the mathematical kind — is scary. Now scientists...
In this day and age, our use of numbers tend to reach certain quantitative values that the human mind can no longer make any sense of. I'd say it's because most of us can't conceive of a model to put exceptionally large numbers into context with. We simply cannot fathom the profound meanings of astronomically large numbers.
For example, numbers...
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To begin; I actually believe I can shape my own future, as a person, an individual.
To challenge that; (As far as I know) everything inside of me is made of atoms. Atoms are made of quarks and leptons blah blah blah. Atoms behave in a very particular and predictable manner, (aside from radiation) - even though some of the intricacies of matter...