Arts and Athletics
Arts and Athletics: Using All Your Common Senses I went to see the home opener of a summertime inter-city league game for college players who want to make it to the majors. [Good luck. There are...
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food for thinking, doing and being ”Mastery of kitchen utensils does not guarantee creativity in cooking but, like the tools of any trade, they must be used with individual and even idiosyncratic...
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photography courtesy of http://reagentx.net/new/tag/astrophotography/ The tenth chapter of the e-book Summon The Magic: How To Use Your Mind… is actually one of my two most favorite chapters. (Those...
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A Sense of Outrage Image source: http://www.whosefaultyvision.com/photoblog/2012/10/24/veiled-face-london/ “The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan...
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creativity and transformation I stumbled across a number of pretty darn good TED talks the other day. I am naturally interesting in learning, performance and creativity, and several of the topics...
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tailor-made Most of us are completely unaware that nearly every piece music is tailor-made to produce a specific emotional, psychological and more importantly – physiological response and state. This...
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information Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It’s Too Much Like TV We need more text and fewer videos and memes in the age of Trump. November 29, 2016 music:...
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attunement The sub-protagonist in the stunningly-good book “The Last Echo” http://www.audubon.org/news/watch-thousands-sandhill-cranes-lift-platte-river-sunrise...
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running through walls “… People are waking up and swimming to the surface through layers of deception. They’re returning to themselves. They’re recognizing group-ism for what it is: a meltdown into...
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going deep The aforementioned book “Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World” by Cal Newport was correctly assumed to be an update in a modernized high-tech world (maybe I should call...
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