Improving The Quality Of Your Life

When young, you can abuse two things:

1. Your body;
2. Your mind.

Abusing your body usually results in pretty nasty health problems when its youth starts wearing off.

Abusing your mind on the other hand, through constant thinking and study, has very pleasant results in time. You won’t be one of those using the “I’m old, my memory isn’t as good” excuse at 65. You won’t forget why you’re holding a toothbrush in your hand, or that your birthday is five months from today. No memory loss at old age sounds too good to be true? Read on. Read the rest of this entry »

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.
— Jules Carlysle

The question is simple: do you know your mind? More specifically, do you know what it is biased towards detecting when you look at things? What is the above picture about? Get voting! Read the rest of this entry »

“Handwriting is civilization’s casual encephalogram.”
— Lance Morrow

Graphology, the study of handwriting as an indicator of the writer’s disposition or character, examines loops, dotted “i’s” and crossed “t’s,” letter spacing, slant, height, ending strokes, etc.

Graphologists believe that such handwriting details are physical manifestations of  unconscious mental functions and that they can reveal as much about a person as astrology, palm reading,  psychometry,  rumpology, or the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator. Read the rest of this entry »

photo by: austinANOMIC

Brring-brring. “Farndale *(quote author), where the hell is your copy?”

“Ah yes, copy. Prose. The written word. Did I tell you that Joseph, our four-year-old, has just written his first word? It’s ‘tbehsp’. Must be Eastern European or something. Not a language I recognise, anyway. Little chap is very gifted.”

“What the —- are you talking about?”

“Like it, like it. An ironic allusion to The Sunday Telegraph’s campaign to stop people swearing in public life. Topical.”

“What is wrong with you?”

“Thanks for asking. I have been feeling a little run down lately. Must be the weather.”

“You’re fired.”

Researchers in Britain say that the ideal phone conversation should last for nine minutes and thirty-six seconds. That is based on the analysis of what more than 2,000 people liked and disliked about their phone conversations. You can read more on that on telegraph.co.uk.

But what should a phone call be? The ideal phone call should be a brief exchange of a few vital pieces of information. Just like a telegraph note in the past, only updated to have voice and almost complete mobility. Read the rest of this entry »

“Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.”
– Jim Davis

Everyone has urges. Some of those urges are natural and healthy (when they’re not abused, e.g. sex, eating), some are neutral (again, when not abused, e.g. thinking of a big screen TV or a new fancy car), while others are artificial and destructive (e.g. drugs).

What happens with an individual when it becomes the subject of destructive urges? Usually, he tries to suppress them by distracting or talking himself out of them. Lack of education in the aspect and the somehow natural feeling that suppression is the right thing to do are at least two of the factors contributing to it. But suppression usually just feeds the urges and creates the illusion that they are conquered and under control.

Suppressing a thought, feeling or sensation, including pain, ultimately increases it. Read the rest of this entry »