The Puzzle of Chronic Illness
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
The Value of Knowledge
The Value of Knowledge (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/knowledge-value
- John Hawthorne (2004; cf. Stanley 2005; Fantl & McGrath 2002) has argued that knowledge is valuable because of therole it plays in practical reasoning. More specifically, Hawthorne(2004: 30) argues for the principle that one should use a propositionp as a premise in one’s practical reasoning only if oneknows p. Hawthor…
- In Plato’s Meno, Socrates raises the question of whyknowledge is more valuable than mere true belief. Call this theMeno problem or, anticipating distinctions made below, theprimary value problem. Initially, we might appeal to the fact that knowledge appears to be ofmore practical us…
EXPLORE FURTHER
Value of Knowledge - Philosophy - Oxford Bibliographies
Knowledge has value to individuals as it may improve their quality of life in a variety of ways. Access to education, information and other knowledge related resources such as museums are valuable to individuals and communities as measured by quality of life.
Presenting Edith Piaf
Presenting Edith Piaf
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Monday, May 30, 2022
Sunday, May 29, 2022
The best exercise is the one you perform on a regular basis.
The cure for boredom is curiosity, there is no cure for curiosity.
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
Voltaire
The best exercise is the one you perform on a regular basis.
Thursday, May 26, 2022
What is existential vacuum According to Frankl?
existential vaccuum the inability to find or create meaning in life, leading to feelings of emptiness, alienation, futility, and aimlessness. Most existentialists have considered meaninglessness to be the quintessential symptom or ailment of the modern age.
What is existential vacuum According to Frankl?
Frankl defined the term existential vacuum as a loss of life interests and a lack of initiative and proactiveness, which can lead to deep feelings of meaninglessness (47).Jun 14, 2019
Saturday, May 21, 2022
*Elvis Presley // Fats Domino - *Blueberry Hill // Love Me
*Elvis Presley // Fats Domino - *Blueberry Hill // Love Me
https://youtu.be/54sVT4CtmEM
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Leo Da Vinci
Man is really the king of beasts, because his brutality exceeds theirs. We live from the death of others, we are like walking cemeteries.- Leonardo da Vinci
Album - Big Joe Turner: The Rhythm & Blues Years
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Confucius Said:
"One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm."
1. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
| Confucius
2. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
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3. “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”
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4. “To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
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5. “Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”
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6. “The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting.”
| Confucius
7. “He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man - follow him;
He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool - shun him”
| Confucius
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8. “Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.”
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9. “Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar.”
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10. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
| Confucius
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11. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
| Confucius
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12. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
| Confucius
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13. “By three methods we may learn wisdom:
First, by reflection, which is noblest;
Second, by imitation, which is easiest;
and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
| Confucius
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14. “To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order;
to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order;
to put the family in order; we must first cultivate our personal life;
we must first set our hearts right.”
| Confucius
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15. “If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.”
| Confucius
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Your one wild and precious life
“Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your ONE wild and precious life? — MARY OLIVER
HOW YOUR BODY REBUILDS
HOW YOUR BODY REBUILDS
ITSELF IN LESS THAN 365 DAYS
FACT: Your entire body totally rebuilds itself in less than 2 years, and 98% in
less than 365 days. Every cell in your body eventually dies and is replaced by
new cells. Every day is a new opportunity to build a new body.
BRAIN:
Your brain
rebuilds itself in
1 year.
LIVER:
DNA:
Your DNA renews
itself every 2
months.
our liver rebuilds
itself in 6 weeks.
STOMACH:
The lining in your
stomach rebuilds
SKIN:
Your skin
rebuilds itself
in 1 month.
itself in 5 days.
BONES:
Your body builds a
whole new skeleton
in 3 months.
BLOOD:
Your blood
renews itself in
4 months.
Discipline is the foundation of success.
No success until you accept the pain of discipline.
When you become disciplined, you give yourself unlimited power.
Discipline is doing the work. Do what you need to do and keep doing it until you accomplish your goals.
Eyeryone has to make a choice between two kinds of pain -
Either the pain of regret and being too scared of failing, or
The pain that discipline, hard work and success demand
It‘s up to you. Deep down you know where you rightfully belong.
To be Disciplined is to accept short-term pain for long-term gain
To choose Comfort is to choose short-term relief for long-term suffering
Both will hurt, both will feel good
But only one will set you free
Discipline matters if we want to achieve some amazing things.
You have to be committed to what you want to do.
Create a plan then execute that plan daily.
"A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him." - Confucius
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Precautions
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Precautions
- Wash & sanitize your hands often
- Avoid touching your face
- Wear KN95 (or better) masks in public
- Avoid gatherings of people
- Work from home if you can
- Stay in well-ventilated rooms, if you must be indoors with others
Not great, but perfectly doable.
Thursday, May 12, 2022
A Simple Way to Create New Habits: Use the Three "R's"
A Simple Way to Create New Habits: Use the Three "R's"
We all have our weaknesses. Whether it's watching too many episodes in a row of an addicting show on Netflix, overindulging in cheese-covered nachos, or skipping an early run to sleep in, we all have our bad habits. It's easier to succumb to the temptation of these kinds of habits rather than take on the uncomfortable task of making positive changes.
Statistically speaking, about 40% of our lives are spent doing routine tasks. This is important, because if we constantly fall into routines that aren't beneficial or healthy, that 40% can greatly impact our life goals.
James Clear, an author and ideas advocate, categorizes the creation of all habits (whether good or bad) as a result of the three Rs: Reminder, Routine, and Reward.
An example: You think of breakfast and your tummy grumbles (reminder), you cook breakfast (routine), then you eat the food (reward). There are plenty of examples of these small routines that occur all throughout your day that you don't even notice.
The downfall is, bad habits are within those routines as well. You're feeling tired (reminder), you cancel your morning run and hit snooze (routine), then you sleep in (reward). But one of your big goals this year is to get in shape and build endurance! There is a conflict of interest when the three R's support habits that aren't aligned with your goals.
Here is how to adjust the three R's to create positive habits:
Change your response to the first R (reminder).
If you want to stop mindless snacking when watching TV in the evening, it's much easier to change the desire for a snack (reminder) than it is to change the routine of eating the snack when you're triggered by the desire. Instead, change what reminds you of snacking (watching TV).
Let's say you start getting the munchies once you begin the second episode of your favorite show. Stop the cue that causes you to snack by turning off the TV and picking up a book to read instead. Even better, if you use watching TV as a way to wind down at the end of the day find a new way to wind down. Try going for a walk, learning a new craft or skill, or meditating!
Another example: If you're trying to quit smoking and you always have the urge for a cigarette right after you eat dinner (the reminder), then change how you enjoy your dinner. If you always eat in front of the television, eat outside if the weather is nice. Always eat alone? Try sharing dinner with friends or family a couple of nights a week. Creating a change in your reminder trigger will make it easier to ultimately change your routine.
Add new habits on the end of routines already in place.
You already have your routines, so why not make the new positive changes ride on their coattails? How many times have you been at a restaurant and ordered a beer before you remembered that you were going to cut back on drinking alcohol this week? Have you ever reached the end of the day and realized you didn't even come close to drinking the amount of water you had hoped to?
Instead of trying to drastically change your regular habits by trying to squeeze new habits into your already busy life, tack them on to routines you already have in place.
For example: If trying to cut back on alcohol, begin the routine of ordering a large glass of water or seltzer with your drink. Use the water to cancel out the diuretic properties of the alcohol, then the next time you are about to order another just get a refill of water or seltzer instead.
If trying to drink more water throughout your day, drink a 12-ounce glass of water every time you come back from the bathroom. Think about replacing the water you just displaced. Another tactic is when you get the cue that you're hungry (reminder), drink a large glass of water before you eat (routine).
Although change does take time, making these small adjustments will make a big difference throughout your life. Eventually the reminders you've set up will become such a regular part of your routine that you'll soon reap all of the new and exciting rewards!
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[Credit: Faletto, Joanie. The Secret to Creating New Habits that Stick is the Three Rs. Curiosity.]
https://www.truelemon.com/blogs/tc/simple-way-create-new-habits
Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them
Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them
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Think about something it took you a really long time to learn, like how to parallel park. At first, parallel parking was difficult and you had to devote a lot of mental energy to it. But after you grew comfortable with parallel parking, it became much easier — almost habitual, you could say.
Parallel parking, gambling, exercising, brushing your teeth and every other habit-forming activity all follow the same behavioral and neurological patterns, says New York Times business writer Charles Duhigg. His new book The Power of Habit explores the science behind why we do what we do — and how companies are now working to use our habit formations to sell and market products to us.
How Habits Form
It turns out that every habit starts with a psychological pattern called a "habit loop," which is a three-part process. First, there's a cue, or trigger, that tells your brain to go into automatic mode and let a behavior unfold.
"Then there's the routine, which is the behavior itself," Duhigg tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "That's what we think about when we think about habits."
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The third step, he says, is the reward: something that your brain likes that helps it remember the "habit loop" in the future.
Neuroscientists have traced our habit-making behaviors to a part of the brain called the basal ganglia, which also plays a key role in the development of emotions, memories and pattern recognition. Decisions, meanwhile, are made in a different part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex. But as soon as a behavior becomes automatic, the decision-making part of your brain goes into a sleep mode of sorts.
"In fact, the brain starts working less and less," says Duhigg. "The brain can almost completely shut down. ... And this is a real advantage, because it means you have all of this mental activity you can devote to something else."
That's why it's easy — while driving or parallel parking, let's say — to completely focus on something else: like the radio, or a conversation you're having.
"You can do these complex behaviors without being mentally aware of it at all," he says. "And that's because of the capacity of our basal ganglia: to take a behavior and turn it into an automatic routine."
Studies have shown that people will perform automated behaviors — like pulling out of a driveway or brushing teeth — the same way every single time, if they're in the same environment. But if they take a vacation, it's likely that the behavior will change.
"You'll put your shoes on in a different order without paying any attention to it," he says, "because once the cues change, patterns are broken up."
That's one of the reasons why taking a vacation is so relaxing: It helps break certain habits.
"It's also a great reason why changing a habit on a vacation is one of the proven most-successful ways to do it," he says. "If you want to quit smoking, you should stop smoking while you're on a vacation — because all your old cues and all your old rewards aren't there anymore. So you have this ability to form a new pattern and hopefully be able to carry it over into your life."
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Marketing Habits
It's not just individual habits that become automated. Duhigg says there are studies that show organizational habits form among workers working for the same company. And companies themselves exploit habit cues and rewards to try to sway customers, particularly if customers themselves can't articulate what pleasurable experience they derive from a habit.
"Companies are very, very good — better than consumers themselves — at knowing what consumers are actually craving," says Duhigg.
As an example, he points to Febreeze, a Proctor & Gamble fabric odor eliminator that initially failed when it got to the market.
"They thought that consumers would use it because they were craving getting rid of bad scents," he says. "And it was a total flop. People who had 12 cats and their homes smelled terrible? They wouldn't use Febreeze."
That's when Proctor & Gamble reformulated Febreeze to include different scents.
"As soon as they did that, people started using it at the end of their cleaning habits to make things smell as nice as they looked," he says. "And what they figured out is that people crave a nice smell when everything looks pretty. Now, no consumer would have said that. ... But companies can figure this out, and that's how they can make products work."
Companies can also figure out how to get consumers to change their own habits and form new ones associated with their products or stores. The megastore Target, for example, tries to target pregnant women, says Duhigg, in order to capture their buying habits for the next few years.
"The biggest moment of flexibility in our shopping habits is when we have a child," he says, "because all of your old routines go out the window, and suddenly a marketer can come in and sell you new things."
Analysts at Target collect "terabytes of information" on its shoppers. They have figured out that women who buy certain products — vitamins, unscented lotions, washcloths — might be pregnant and then can use that information to jump-start their marketing campaign.
This can get tricky: One father was upset after receiving coupons for baby products in the mail from Target addressed to his teenage daughter.
"He went in and said, 'My daughter is 16 years old. Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?' and the manager apologizes," Duhigg says. "The manager calls a couple of days later ... and the father says, 'I need to apologize. ... I had a conversation with my daughter, and it turns out there's some things going on in my house that I wasn't aware of. She's due in August.' So Target figured it out before her dad did."
Elizabeth Alter/Courtesy Random House
Interview Highlights
On breaking habits
"What we know from lab studies is that it's never too late to break a habit. Habits are malleable throughout your entire life. But we also know that the best way to change a habit is to understand its structure — that once you tell people about the cue and the reward and you force them to recognize what those factors are in a behavior, it becomes much, much easier to change."
On his bad habits
"I felt like I had a lot of habits that I was powerless over. ... I have a 3-year-old and a 10-month-old. And I remember when my 3-year-old was 1 1/2 or 2. I was writing the book. We would feed him chicken nuggets or other stuff for dinner, which was the only stuff he would eat. And it was impossible for me to stop from reaching over and grabbing his chicken nuggets. It was a struggle every night not to eat his dinner because a 2-year-old dinner is designed to taste delicious and to disintegrate into your mouth into carbs and sugar. And so, I was really interested in this, and I wanted to exercise more and I wanted to be more productive at work."
On rewards
"The weird thing about rewards is that we don't actually know what we're actually craving."
On spirituality and habits
"When [Alcoholics Anonymous] started, there was no scientific basis to it whatsoever. In fact, there's no scientific basis to AA. The 12 steps that are kind of famous? The reason why there's 12 of them is because the guy who came up with them — who wrote them one night while he was sitting on his bed — he chose them because there's 12 apostles. There's no real logic to how AA was designed. But the reason why AA works is because it essentially is this big machine for changing the habits around alcohol consumption and giving people a new routine, rather than going to a bar or drink. ... It doesn't seem to work if people do it on their own. ... At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness. And at that moment, if you can look across a room and think, 'Jim's kind of a moron. I think I'm smarter than Jim. But Jim has been sober for three years. And if Jim can do it, I can definitely do it,' that's enormously powerful."
https://www.npr.org/2012/03/05/147192599/habits-how-they-form-and-how-to-break-them
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