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Something to Learn From Children

I just started reading Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly and absolutely loving it. One thing that particularly captured my attention was how Mihaly explained the difference between pleasure and enjoyment. According to Flow, we can experience pleasure by without any investment of pyshcic energy, whereas enjoyment happens only as a result of unusual [...]

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Why Gen-Y Should Practice Meditation

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.” – Buddha For the past 6 months I have waken up every Friday morning at 6 AM to participate in a meditation club. I was lured to “Mind Your Business Club” by my friend [...]

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Life is like a Metaphor

Metaphor is the understanding of one thing in terms of something else, and is a product of Right-brain thinking.  The book, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, stresses the importance of developing and using Right-brain thinking in the businesses world and life.  Left brain = literal and textual.  Right brain = metaphorical and contextual.  Knowledge workers [...]

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“You Get What You Give”

Growing up a 90s kid, I was heavily influenced by 90s music,  and I have to admit, I still enjoy those infamous 90s one-hit wonders.  Recently heard the New Radicals - You Get What You Give, which was basically my anthem during the 90s, and got slapped with perhaps the best advice I think anyone [...]

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“We cannot step twice into the same river”

I’m currently studying the Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, the Hays Translation.  “We cannot step twice into the same river” – Heraclitus Marcus expands on this… “Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried passed us, and another follows and is gone.”  (4.43 in Hays)  Its amazing at how I can relate those [...]

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Mirrors

“People mirror back to us the reality of who we are” I read this phrase from the book, The Third Jesus, by Deepak Chopra. Very similar to the golden rule, “Do not do unto others as you would expect they should do unto you”. So when you sit down face to face with reality, [...]

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Opportunity Cost in Real Life

Taking Macro and Micro this semester, plus a personal finance class, I have been formally introduced to Opportunity Cost = the highest valued alternative that must be given up to engage or do an activity. For instance, if I decide to buy new shoes ($65) over a nice dress shirt on sale ($25), [...]

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