by Rupe | Jan 30, 2018 | Deep Thoughts, Inspiration
Taming your mind is one of the hardest skill to learn but pays off in the longer run. Usually this involves self-evaluation and accountability. I will list a few skills, which point towards the master skill of taming your mind.
- Constantly challenging what you previously thought to be correct.
- Listening with the intention of understanding and not with the intention of replying.
- Questioning the norms in the society and generating your own worldview.
Source: Quora – click to continue reading
My Comments: Really like the list of things by Ali Nawaz. I see where most have been proven in my life and point of view.
by Rupe | Aug 10, 2017 | Inspiration
A photographer of author James Baldwin
I underwent, during the summer that I became fourteen, a prolonged religious crisis. I use “religious” in the common, and arbitrary, sense, meaning that I then discovered God, His saints and angels, and His blazing Hell. And since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—
Source: The New Yorker 1962
My Comments:
I came to realize how important and great this man was/is as I got older. I will endeavor to read as much of his work as I possibly can.
by Rupe | Dec 25, 2016 | Deep Thoughts, Inspiration, Reflections
There’s no emotion we ought to think harder and more clearly about than anger. Anger greets most of us every day – in our personal relationships, in the workplace, on the highway, on airline trips – and, often, in our political lives as well. Anger is both poisonous and popular.
Source: There’s no emotion we ought to think harder about than anger.
My Comments: Excellent essay…
by Rupe | Sep 23, 2016 | Inspiration
This star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star’s remaining core.
This image, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful “last hurrah” of a star like our sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star’s remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
Source: Hubble Views a Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star | NASA
My Comment: Simply Awesome!
by Rupe | Jun 28, 2016 | Inspiration, Mentoring
Why playing with algebraic and calculus concepts—rather than doing arithmetic drills—may be a better way to introduce children to math
The familiar, hierarchical sequence of math instruction starts with counting, followed by addition and subtraction, then multiplication and division. The computational set expands to include bigger and bigger numbers, and at some point, fractions enter the picture, too. Then in early adolescence, students are introduced to patterns of numbers and letters, in the entirely new subject of algebra. A minority of students then wend their way through geometry, trigonometry and, finally, calculus, which is considered the pinnacle of high-school-level math.
Source: 5-Year-Olds Can Learn Calculus – The Atlantic
My Comments: Really think this is a pretty interesting and exciting approach.
by Rupe | Apr 2, 2016 | Inspiration, Military-Political
Demonstrators are shown during a Black Lives Matter protest last year.
When several black celebrities refused to attend the Academy Awards this year, their protest was initially dismissed as a futile gesture. Yet their boycott succeeded in exposing Hollywood’s subtle but deeply ingrained form of racism.
Source: Corporate America supports the fight for LGBT rights…
My Comments: Thank you so very much Ms Cohen for this piece. The nasty hypocrisy under which we move about our daily lives as a society is killing us. Your piece is well put and much appreciated.
