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“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” – William James

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“Nothing we do or experience … is untouched by our own expectations. Instead, there is a constant give-and-take in which what we experience reflects not just what the world is currently telling us, but what we — consciously or nonconsciously — were expecting it to be telling us. One consequence of this is that … [ Read more ]

Authors: Andy Clark, Maria Popova, William James | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Excerpts, Insight, Psychology | Behavior, Senses, Thought | Inquiry

I’ve learned that I like my teacher because she cries when we sing “Silent Night.”
Age 6

I’ve learned that our dog doesn’t want to eat my broccoli either.
Age 7

I’ve learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back.
Age 9

I’ve learned that just when … [ Read more ]

Author: Unknown | Subjects: Insight, Inspiration, Wisdom

• I’ve learned that we don’t have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
• I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
• I’ve learned that true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance. Same goes for true love.
• I’ve learned that you

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Subjects: Insight, Inspiration, Wisdom

1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial impressions or the borrowed ideas of others, without investing the time and thought that cultivating true conviction necessitates. We then go around asserting

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Author: Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (October 23, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Insight, Wisdom

“What we regard as Evil is capable of a fairly ubiquitous presence if only because it tends to appear in the guise of good.”

Authors: Joseph Brodsky, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (October 25, 2016) | Subjects: Excerpts, Good & Evil, Insight, Life & Society, Sociology | Anthropology