Tag: tolerance

• 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.”  

  valsaksornchai

  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

• 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…

  valsaksornchai

  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