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  • Gjesping er bra for hjernen

    Interessant forskning — gjesping er visst noe av det beste du kan gjøre for hjernen:
    “Yawning is one of the best-kept secrets in neuroscience. [...] Dogs yawn before attacking, Olympic athletes yawn before performing, and fish yawn before they change activities. Evidence even exists that yawning helps individuals on military assignment perform their tasks with greater [...]

  • What is a man?

    “A man makes things — a rock wall, a table, the tuition money. Or he rebuilds — engines, watches, fortunes. He passes along expertise, one man to the next. Know-how survives him. This is immortality. A man can speak to dogs. A man fantasizes that kung fu lives deep inside him [...]

  • Ubuntu

    “A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
    – Erkebiskop Desmond [...]

  • How to cook your life

    Jeg så nettopp denne herlige dokumentaren om kokk og Zen Mester Edward Espe Brown. Han forteller om de grunnleggende prinsippene i Zen Buddisme, og hvordan de er relatert til matlaging og livet. Jeg kjente igjen mye fra kurset i Vipassana-meditasjon som jeg tok i Bangkok i vår, blant annet gående meditasjon. Høykvalitets-trailer tilgjengelig hos Apple [...]

  • Øyvinds hedgehog-teori

    Øyvind tegnet følgende tegning på kontoret i dag, og fortalte om Hedgehog-teorien. Den kan visst brukes om det meste her i livet:

    “The pivot point in Good to Great is the Hedgehog Concept. The essence of a Hedgehog Concept is to attain piercing clarity about how to produce the best long-term results, and then exercising the [...]

  • Sitat

    If you hear a voice within you saying, “You are not a painter,”
    then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
    - Vincent Van Gogh

  • Sitat

    If you hear a voice within you saying, “You are not a painter,”
    then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
    - Vincent Van Gogh

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