Archive for April, 2009

Monday, April 27th, 2009

The fish only knows that it lives in the water

“The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.”

  • Thanks for sharing these info with us! I was reading something similar on izlesene website that i was researching. thanks...
  • I liked this text and i appreciated. I've read all. When i was surfing youtube, i watched a video about this text. Also i have a membership of a facebook group about this fact. Thanks the writer. I am always following texts like this. Have a nice day...
  • For some reason this reminds me of the quote from Chuang Tzu: "Once Chuang Tzu dreamed he was a butterfly, a fluttering butterfly. What fun he had, doing as he pleased! He did not know he was Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and found himself to be Zhou. He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly ...
Monday, April 20th, 2009

Inertia

Inertia. You know the Universal Law that keeps us moving blindly or sitting dumbly. Among its definitions are apathy, torpor, lethargy and even disinterest.

  • Vacation aside -- the notion of a fish not knowing they are in water -- is interesting to me -- think on it -- what is our parallel?
  • Nicely said Andrew. I think a lot about cause and effect in all of this as a way to train myself to think more deeply about my everyday actions (and inactions). I also have a mentor who is outside of the company. I give him a high level overview of what I'm up to every few months so ...
  • I find that inertia and “horizontal” thought is not only a tempting behavior pattern stemming from lethargy and inaction, but also a pitfall for well motivated people who fail to identify the linear trajectory of their actions. One could argue that the financial crisis (and other bubble-bust cycles) arose from consecutive years of horizontal thought. A possible solution ...
Monday, April 13th, 2009

Shock Treatment

Many of our friends and colleagues are celebrating Holidays centered on renewal and rebirth, while in a good portion of the world nature is doing the same.

Yet all one has to do is look at the news to see how jaded we have become to suffering and death, in direct contradistinction to what the season (religious or physical) is telling us.

  • I really thank to one who wrote this article. I have always been reading and writing texts like this in blogs. Also, I, as a daily writer, present my respects to everyone. I just watched videos like this in video izle. I research in all areas...
  • too much to process -- not enough room to store and not enough time -- how true! and by the way take the time to cheer for Captain Richard Phillips and the Navy Seals!!!
  • I wonder if this phenomenon is related to the rate in which we absorb data. Technology and media (or perhaps our choices in how we consume it) feeds data points to us so quickly, we are forced to super-compute the variables - absorbing, deflecting, reacting and discarding amazingly fast in order to keep the pipes open for more - flashback ...