Category: Self

• Someday you will miss today… (SNOTM)

  

  Stuff No-one Told Me features comics that you might enjoy if you’re striving to make sense of life like their author Alex Noriega. Here’s my favourite one:

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  May 16, 2017

  Life, Self

  Alex Noriega, comic, illustration, Life, miss, today

• The Virtues of Boredom: An Interview (The Atlantic)

  A reflective interview with Mary Mann about the virtues of boredom

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  May 14, 2017

  Curiosities, Life, Mind, Psychology, Self

  adulthood, Book, boredom, control, Julie Beck, Mary Mann, teenage, War

• What Is Trust?

  

  In my university admissions examination in 2009, I was asked whether I thought trust was the foundation of human society. My answer was yes, and my reasoning was that it is a necessary – though not sufficient – condition for relationships and economic transactions. Looking back, I realise that my answer was fundamentally flawed. I…

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  May 2, 2017

  Economics, Life, Mind, Musings, Philosophy, Self, Time

  definition, economic, economy, feelings, intimacy, relationships, sharing, thoughts, time, transactions, trust, university

• Second-time Writer

  

  I’m probably as bad as writing excerpts as I am at writing short messages. Do read on for further explanation.

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  April 16, 2017

  Self, Traveling, Writing

  Book, card, Friend, postcard, travel, Writing

• Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist (TED)

  

  A beautifully told story and an inspiring testament to the power of human empathy: She looked at me with the weary eyes of someone who had experienced enough dogmatism to last a lifetime, and said, “I’m tired of hating people.”  

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  November 29, 2014

  Life, Love, Personalities, Self, Talks

  1993, bigotry, bombing, bullying, character, comedian, dogmatism, El Sayyid Nosair, empathy, Experience, extremism, father, father figure, FBI, gay, hatred, homosexuality, identity, ideology, inspiration, intolerance, Islam, Islamism, Jewish, Jon Stewart, Judaism, judgment, kindness, Life, New York, race, religion, stereotype, story, suffering, synagogue, TED, terrorism, terrorist, The Daily Show, tolerance, UN, victim, violence, World Trade Center, worldview, Zac Ebrahim

• #Try

  One of those songs I will always come back to: p.s. Have I told you that I sing?

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  October 17, 2014

  Life, Music, Psychology, Self

  Colbie Caillat, Music, Song, Try

• Maria on the Psychology of Writing

  For the writers and creative thinkers out there: The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine. I revisit this regularly to encourage myself in my writing endeavours. Think of the following excerpt as a teaser for Maria’s brilliant article, which you should consider reading in its entirety. A person can think…

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  September 26, 2014

  Personalities, Psychology, Self, Writing

  author, behavioural cue, Brainpickings, Cafe, cognitive, concentration, Creativity, daily routine, desk, discipline, distraction, environment, Facebook, flow, habit, Hemingway, Kellogg, Maria Popova, Music, noise, Psychology, quiet, routine, science, sleep, social media, success, Thought, tolerance, Twitter, Virginia Woolf, work, writer, writer’s block, Writing, youth

• Where Did All the Books Go?

  

  Whole books reduced to a character, a concept, an example… Good morning/afternoon/evening dear readers, I hope you’re well. More impertinently, I hope my absence has been missed. I’ve certainly missed writing for you, and I’d hate to think my affections one-sided. It has been a month since my last proper post (Labels). And, the writing-addict…

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  March 23, 2014

  Random, Reading, Self

  Anne Hathaway, Artemis Fowl, books, bookstore, brain, characters, child, childhood, children, existential crisis, fiction, Harry Potter, House, lessons, Life, Memory, non-fiction, pictures, reading, teenage, The Princess Diaries, tiles

• Maria on Character

  Brain Pickings: What is Character? Debunking the Myth of Fixed Personality Who am I? What is my character? What is my personality? These are questions that intrigue or trouble me according to the mood of the day. And I have been known to let myself be crushed under the weight of their unanswerability at the…

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  March 6, 2014

  Psychology, Self

  brain, brain pickings, change, character, dream, feeling, Maria Popova, myth, neuroscience, person, personality, Psychology, self, temperament

• Two Worlds

  

  When you live in a city, you don’t only become part of it; it becomes part of you. I first had the idea for this post in a shower. And for weeks it has been brewing in the back of my mind. Partly because I have been feeling tired recently, which is no good for…

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  February 23, 2014

  Bangkok, Cities, Life, London, Self

  Bangkok, Bristol, car, commute, culture, Economics, environment, identity, Life, London, Oxford, Paris, Politics, Relationship, self, society, Thailand, traffic, train, urban, Walking