Click on the link for a fun video about why we turn in circles when blindfolded and told to walk straight. We still don't know!
They didn't mention testing blind people though, which is curious. The blind are known to strengthen their other senses, so they'd probably do better.
If we can see, so be it. If we can't, we train our other senses. So it's a conundrum why we'd study this at all. Still, the style of the video is worth watching.
Gut-wrenching but too astonishing to tear your eyes away.
I’m constantly amazed at what people enjoy and what they can do when they work together. I’ve been on top and been the base of several two man towers before when doing bhangra. Human instinct kicks in and your legs start shaking, not because of the weight, but because of the fear. It’s exhilarating working with a group of people to do a stunt like that.
What a thrill to see group work at this scale.
Casteller from Mike Randolph on Vimeo.
But, then make a List Of One.
A single, meaningful action you’re going to take before the end of the day to move you one step closer to a single, deeply meaningful quest.
From: http://www.jonathanfields.com/blog/the-bucket-list-lie/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JonathanFields+%28Jonathan+Fields+%7C+Awake+At+The+Wheel%29
The idea of focusing on just one thing is popular for
In all the above, concentrating on one has been shown to be a measure of progress, of eventual success.
Over the years, my daily to-do list has whittled down from 10 to 5 to 3 to just 1 thing. It’s easy to think of, easy to track, easy to accomplish and functions as a self-fulfilling reward.
Great example: working out. You go in knowing you’re going to do X exercise for a certain amount of time. Once you’ve achieved it, you’re done. It’s incredibly satisfying and motivating. You want to do it again because you know you can.
Jonathan Fields’ idea of a List of One works off the same mechanism. Start with one and take it from there. Great advice.
It's great to see companies like AWeber helping to keep the internet community fun and social. I assume companies at their outset are more local and friendly, and simply due to size eventually become unreachable.
Few, like Zappos, Bungie and 37signals though have kept up their customer-centric attitude throughout.
Regardless of marketing strategy, I can't help but like this Thanks-giving attitude. October till New Years is such a beautiful time of the year.
When we hold a thought in our mind without being distracted, we have achieved pure thought. When we have a positive emotional response to that thought, we enable it to dance and move and breathe itself into existence.
“He said: ‘It’s O.K., everybody has to die. I’m here with you, let’s just focus on the now,’ ” she recalled. “He also said one of the things he had to do was finish this house, to put the windows in. We talked about going to Hawaii. He said, ‘Let’s go to Hawaii and be with God.’ In Bernd’s eye, God was beauty, God was nature, God was the flowers, the mountains, the moon and the stars, so he wanted to be outside all the time. He was not one who was going to lie in bed and die, that’s for sure.”
Fascinating and articulate read. We carry a sense of home imprinted since childhood with us from apartment to studio to house, wherever we go.
How we externalize it through design is up to us, our unique touch on an old recipe that will continue to be passed on.
Home doesn't have to be filled with just material reminders. The FEEL of a place, the essence that only we can know, is much more important. Nature, buildings, colors, woodwork, noise levels, the general hum we hear when we close our eyes. These are the elements that matter.
We reproduce in more ways than through the genes perpetuating our lineage. A sense of self carries on simply because of our presence.