Month: December 2008

If the we all talked about change and reflection like we do now, the world would be a much different place.

Why just when a year changes? How about the seasons? How about the month, the week or the day?

To those that keep the conversation going all year. Thank You.

• James Bartley – http://dancing-geek.co.uk
• Havi Brooks – http://www.fluentself.com
• Tim Brownson – http://www.adaringadventure.com/blog/wordpress
• Mark McGuinness – http://lateralaction.com
• Steve Pavlina – http://www.stevepavlina.com
• Curt Rosengren – http://mapmaker.curtrosengren.com
• Pam Slim – http://www.escapefromcubiclenation.com
• Everyone at http://www.changeeverything.ca

I’m sure there are loads more ( it is the internet ). Leave a comment and let me know who’s keeping the dialogue open all year round

Vilayanur Ramachandran shares some neurology lessons. Particularly synesthesia (starts at 17:50). The mixing between senses, i.e. colour and numbers, tone and colours, etc.

Synesthesia is 8 times more common among artists, poets and novelists and other creative people then in the general population. Why would that be?…

He continues to note some other interesting aspects:

• A heredity in genes. It’s passed down!
• The linking in metaphorical thinking.
• The ability to connect “seemingly unrelated ideas”.

Let me repeat. “seemingly unrelated ideas”

Maybe we are all (as he put) synesthedes. I wonder if we could do the same brain tests on renaissance, generalists, and scanners, that there might be something similar?

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After posting Faith in the Process I came across Richard Dawkins.

He uses the term faith synonymously with religious and that surprises me. I use that word a lot, but I don’t think of it in the same way.

Dawkins has said

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Is that with a capital “F”?

I don’t mean religion when I say it. I mean a deeper sense of trust.

What else do you call that driving feeling when going against the grain of the world?

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.

Henry Miller