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Gjesping er bra for hjernen

Freddy — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:05:44 +0000

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 accuracy and ease. Indeed, yawning may be one of the most important mechanisms for regulating the survival-related behaviors in mammals. So if you want to maintain an optimally healthy brain, it is essential that you yawn.”

Les mer i Penn Gazette.

What is a man?

Freddy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:54:27 +0000

“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 somewhere. A man knows how to sneak a look at cleavage and doesn’t care if he gets busted once in a while. A man is good at his job. Not his work, not his avocation, not his hobby. Not his career. His job. It doesn’t matter what his job is, because if a man doesn’t like his job, he gets a new one.”

Esquire – What is a Man?

Ubuntu

Freddy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:08:48 +0000

“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 Tutu (via Haldane Martin, som lager noen helt fantastiske møbler)

How to cook your life

Freddy — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:31:40 +0000

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 (quicktime).

Brown har også gitt ut flere bøker, blant annet “bibelen” for brødbaking: The Tassajara Bread Book. Jeg har bestilt en, og i min nye leilighet skal jeg lage langt mer av mitt eget brød selv.

Øyvinds hedgehog-teori

Freddy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:10:32 +0000

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 relentless discipline to say, “No thank you” to opportunities that fail the hedgehog test. When we examined the Hedgehog Concepts of the good-to-great companies, we found they reflected deep understanding of three intersecting circles: 1) what you are deeply passionate about, 2) what you can be the best in the world at, and 3) what best drives your economic engine.”

Sitat

Freddy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:55:34 +0000

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

Freddy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:32:17 +0000

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

Curios Seth Godin

Freddy — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:44:25 +0000

En video om “nysgjerrige” Seth Godin, anbefales!