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COMEDY: “Sapiosexuality: A Satire” / The School of Life ☮
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Category Archives: Thought
PSYCHOLOGY – MINDFULNESS: “The Importance of Staring Out of the Window” / The School of Life / Alain de Botton ☮
We are so busy and so obsessed with our phones, we rarely take a break to do that vital and rather philosophical thing: stare out of the window. Looking achieve a better state of calm? Try our calm cards.
PSYCHOLOGY: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: “Hansen Unplugged: ‘An Attack on Our Basic Humanity'” / Dale Hansen ☮
WFAA’s Dale Hansen shares his thoughts after an ambush in downtown Dallas left five police officers dead and seven others wounded.
PSYCHOLOGY – SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: “Relationships: How to Remain Calm with People” / The School of Life / Alain de Botton ☮
Remaining calm around people who annoy us is one of the great life skills. It’s also a teachable and learnable skill.
PERSONALITY PSYCHOLOGY: “Who are You, Really? The Puzzle of Personality” / TED TALK Vancouver, BC / February 2016 / Brian Little ☮
What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits — sometimes because our culture demands it of us, and sometimes because we demand it of ourselves. Join Little as he dissects the surprising differences between introverts and extroverts and explains why your personality may be more malleable than you think.
RELATIONSHIPS: “How Romanticism Ruined Love” / The School of Life / Alain de Botton ☮
The set of ideas we can call Romanticism is responsible for making our relationships extremely difficult. We shouldn’t give up on love; we should just recognise that it’s a skill, not an emotion.
ESOTERICISM: Mysticism – Islamic: “What is Sufism; and Can it Stop Radical Islam?” / Seeker Daily ☮
PSYCHOLOGY: “The Nature of Creativity and the Courage to Create” / Academy of Ideas ☮
In this video we explore the nature of creativity, the idea that creative insights emerge from the unconscious mind, and look at ways to stimulate creativity.
PHILOSOPHY: “Schopenhauer and Indra’s Net” / Joseph Campbell ☮
PHILOSOPHY – ATHEISM: “Religion: The Problem of Evil” / Wireless Philosophy / Sally Haslanger ☮
Sally Haslanger (M.I.T.) discusses a classic argument that God does not exist, called ‘The Problem of Evil’. Along the way, she distinguishes different ways in which people believe that God exists, and discusses what’s bad about having contradictory beliefs.
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