School of Curiosity
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Cultural cognitive dissonance
July 2, 2013
From time to time, we are probably all pretty good at thinking that we live in a culture that’s a just a little bit superior to others. A recent question posted on Quora asked people to contemplate the question “What strikes you as odd about your own culture”.
The responses are funny, interesting, disturbing and sometimes downright bizarre. For example, India makes 3000 movies a year of which 95% are love stories. According to Anjishnu Kumar, ”…The same society that consumes thousands of love stories for its weekly entertainment, has an arranged marriage rate of 80%+ in urban middle-class areas, and 100% in rural areas. Inter-caste and inter-faith marriages are almost like a statistical error”.
We also learn that Dutch people eat stuff that the rest of the world finds strange. Have a look here http://b.qr.ae/12aKxL1
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Textual relationships
March 1, 2013
“The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other’s smartphone”. Alan De Botton.
Do your love-life a favour…leave the phone at home occassionally. Remember that eccentric thing you used to do….talking to each other?
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Caged
January 10, 2013
Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
Think about it. Do what you love.
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Break dancing
November 28, 2012
Have a look at the phrase in the picture above. What do you see?
Most adults agree that it says “I love Paris in the springtime”. But if you look again it actually says “I love Paris in THE THE springtime”.
Don’t worry too much if you didn’t see the extra THE. It’s pretty normal. As intelligent adults we look for patterns, that allow us to see shortcuts and that can be helpful. Sometimes though, we get so stuck in our normal patterns that we see what we think is there rather than what is actually there.
We miss a lot of possibility that is all around us, because we are too busy looking for patterns that we are familiar with.
Break your pattern today. See what’s there.
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Do what you love
October 17, 2012
Wouldn’t it be great never to have to work again? That’s what its like when you earn a living by doing what you love – its not work, its fun.
Think about it. If you can earn a pretty good living doing something you hate, why can’t you earn a great living doing something that you love? Have a look at the link for some tips on how to do it.
Have a curious day.