Category: Ideas
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I Enjoy You
Have you ever heard anyone say that to you? Do you know anyone that enjoys you? When you enjoy someone, you just want to be around them – all the time. I guess the first question for me is – are you that kind of person – the kind that…
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Do You Google at Dinner?
I find that when I have a question – any question – any time – I Google it. Lately, I’ve been Googling at the table. If we are talking about something an we can’t remember the name of the song, the actor, or the movie – you are only a…
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Views That I Don’t Agree With
…..challenge me way more than the ones that I do agree with. It is easy to read and follow people of the of same ilk. It might even feel good to cheer someone on – because you agree with them. Check out your twitter friends and followers. Are you following…
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Theory and Practice
I recently gave a talk on some of the theory behind my research. It was a 9 minute talk. Not sure it could’ve been adequately explained in 9 minutes. Evidently, the audience had a great discussion (it was a video presentation). Also, I guess there were questions and I am…
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The Excuse Machine
Sometimes you just need to hear a few words put together in a different way and you get a whole new experience with the idea. I heard Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs say this on his show. I don’t even remember what the focus of the show was. I just…
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Tweets as Self-Affirmation
I read some tweets today that totally sounded like someone’s inner monologue, and when I asked about it, they affirmed the fact that they do indeed use Twitter to project their inner monologue. It seems like lots of tweets look like this. But what I’ve also noticed is that people…
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A Grade School Understanding
I just heard that line in a documentary that I was watching. It struck me. We can have a “grade school” understanding of many things, and that’s not a bad thing necessarily. Hopefully, we start to develop understanding of many things at higher levels, but no matter how much we…
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Planned Spontaneity
Have you ever heard anyone break down spontaneity? I was a little surprised when I heard someone break it down today. They identified it’s parts and articulated how spontaneity works, but they were talking about planned spontaneity. They were trying to game spontaneity. At first my thought was, that’s dumb.…
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Humanize to Understand
I was listening to an interview this am of a guy that infiltrated or maybe immersed himself in a culture that he wanted to learn about. It was something that he did to learn about this culture with which he knew nothing about or had nothing in common with. He…
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How to be Exceptional
First question: why do you want to be exceptional? To be exceptional you have to be first of all be different somehow from everyone else. Here are the definitions of exceptional. 1: far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; “a night of exceeding darkness”; “an exceptional memory”;…
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Moral Consistency
I am sure that could mean many different things. I was confronted by this idea twice in the past 2 days, and both times it had to do with the fact that I eat meat. If you are going to be a meat eater, you need to have the moral…
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