March 2012
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,...”
– ― Albert Einstein
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“What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we go downstairs, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed on order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? Describe your street. Describe...
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But perhaps the one subject I was most right about was Shaka Smart. In the end of the book there’s a section entitled Post Script in which I update everyone on what’s happened with the subjects in the book since the end of the season. It was written in a coffee shop in Pittsburgh in late August of 2006 right before the book went to print, and the part about Shaka Smart follows in the italicized...
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“Until recently, researchers thought the bilingual advantage stemmed primarily...”
– Why Bilinguals Are Smarter
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“It means that we can work on learning and improve our creativity. It also means...”
– Creativity with a small c
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And that’s when you know you’ve been caught out, that you’ve squandered what time you had, that you must trust this house of concrete you’ve built to stand up to the sea. Your wife joins you on the second-floor terrace, reporting that she, too, saw the neighbor’s house wash away. “We should run,” she says, but you say, “It’s too late.”...
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Dear Centaurious,
First let me say how inspiring it is that you have learned to use a computer.
I hate for our correspondence to be confrontational, but you have offended me deeply. To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair. I’ll leave it for others to say if I’m the best, but I am certainly one of the most dedicated trolls guarding...
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via It’s Okay to be Smart.
Also see how to find your purpose and do what you love.
(via explore-blog)
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“Do what you love, the money will follow.” Bullshit. It’s true only if what you love happens to be an activity that creates economic value that someone, somewhere will pay for. Nowhere is this clearer than in the arts. Every year, thousands of people move home from LA, NY, Nashville, Paris, etc., their hopes and spirits crushed, because they couldn’t be...
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