Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Edward de Bono and flying upside down
Single minded determination and expectation that you will get there are the essential qualities for huge success.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Seth Godin:Quieting the Lizard Brain
Duncan Heinz Guide to Good Eating was born out of his need to find a good place to eat.
Roy Parks teamed up with the Duncan Heinz money.
From becoming a wandering generality to someone who ships on time and budget.
Steve McConell's Software Product Management is a good book on thrashing. You must thrash on it in the beginning.
What you do for a living is ship not creativity ( everyone is creative). Someone who ships has a discipline and part of a discipline is thrashing early.
Why do human beings sabotage their work so often? A chicken has a lizard brain-it is hungry, scared, selfish, horny ..how are we going to survive and how are we going to have kids. The lizard brain is the source of our primal doubts.
The first couple of breaths is very difficult to fill up the balloon.And then its a breeze.
Roy Parks teamed up with the Duncan Heinz money.
From becoming a wandering generality to someone who ships on time and budget.
Steve McConell's Software Product Management is a good book on thrashing. You must thrash on it in the beginning.
What you do for a living is ship not creativity ( everyone is creative). Someone who ships has a discipline and part of a discipline is thrashing early.
Why do human beings sabotage their work so often? A chicken has a lizard brain-it is hungry, scared, selfish, horny ..how are we going to survive and how are we going to have kids. The lizard brain is the source of our primal doubts.
The first couple of breaths is very difficult to fill up the balloon.And then its a breeze.
Monday, March 07, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Eric Schmidt at DLD ( Digital Life Design) in Munich January 2011
The internet has been the biggest disruptor.The economics of scarcity ( pricing powere, holding things back)has been replaced by economics of abundance.
You can be a truly global citizen and realise how interesting we all are.
Your children are in two states : either asleep or online.
It just the beginning.
Time wasting is a well known human activity we engage in. Instead of tv now online eg videos etc.
Cars on autopilot.
Not only available to the elite but accessible to the common man.
Lifting a couple of billion of people from poverty to middle class mainly in Asia.
A future of ideas, intuition, solutions and doing what we love to do.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Promoting Charities
Are you a UK-based charity with a compelling story to tell? Do you want to connect with your supporters, volunteers, and donors on YouTube?
To find out more go to:
http://www.youtube.co.uk/nonprofits
See the charities included in this video at:
http://www.youtube.co.uk/beatbullying
http://www.youtube.co.uk/deccharity
http://www.youtube.co.uk/friendsofthe...
http://www.youtube.co.uk/missingpeople
http://www.youtube.co.uk/wateraid
To find out more go to:
http://www.youtube.co.uk/nonprofits
See the charities included in this video at:
http://www.youtube.co.uk/beatbullying
http://www.youtube.co.uk/deccharity
http://www.youtube.co.uk/friendsofthe...
http://www.youtube.co.uk/missingpeople
http://www.youtube.co.uk/wateraid
Monday, January 24, 2011
Rumi etc
‘It’s morning and the musk-scattering breeze is passing;
Know that it is passing out of a certain person’s lane.
Get up! How can you sleep when the world is passing?
Buy some perfume, for the caravan is passing’
(Mevlana, Divan-i-Kabir no.1750)
‘Forgetfulness is also a bounty. It allows one to suffer the pains of only one day, and causes the rest to be forgotten’
(Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur, 16)
‘Watch out that you don’t regret the matters of the past.
You are a sufi, so don’t mention the name of the past.
You are the ‘son of the moment’ during youth and old age,
As long as the present moment doesn’t pass away’
(Mevlana, Divan-e Kabir no. 1753)
‘Don’t worry but let yourself sleep,
For worry is a veil on the face of the moon, a veil.
The heart is like the full moon. Don’t keep worry near the heart.
Throw worry-making into the stream’
(no.1754)
Know that it is passing out of a certain person’s lane.
Get up! How can you sleep when the world is passing?
Buy some perfume, for the caravan is passing’
(Mevlana, Divan-i-Kabir no.1750)
‘Forgetfulness is also a bounty. It allows one to suffer the pains of only one day, and causes the rest to be forgotten’
(Said Nursi, Risale-i Nur, 16)
‘Watch out that you don’t regret the matters of the past.
You are a sufi, so don’t mention the name of the past.
You are the ‘son of the moment’ during youth and old age,
As long as the present moment doesn’t pass away’
(Mevlana, Divan-e Kabir no. 1753)
‘Don’t worry but let yourself sleep,
For worry is a veil on the face of the moon, a veil.
The heart is like the full moon. Don’t keep worry near the heart.
Throw worry-making into the stream’
(no.1754)
Government and the Good Life
Taken from preface by Simon Griffiths:
In 961, reflecting on a long and seemingly successful life, Abdul
Rahman iii, Caliph of Cordoba, wrote:
I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace; beloved
by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my
allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited
on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been
wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered
the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my
lot: they amount to fourteen.
edward gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (electric book Company, 2001), Volume V, 401.
1
Two weeks of happiness in a lifetime of abundance is pretty scant.
More than 1,000 years later the Caliph’s gloomy reflections are
more relevant than ever before, and are mirrored in two related
questions that run through the chapters in this book.
First, why are we no happier now than we once were (or to
use the language of the social scientists, why is ‘subjective wellbeing’ no higher)? even in recession, most of us in the west are far
wealthier than at any time in previous decades. between 1957 and
2006, the UK’s gDP per person almost trebled in real terms, rising
from £6,960 to £19,978.
2
Roughly speaking, orthodox economics
equates a rise in the level of purchasing power with an increase
in the wellbeing of a society.
3
Yet, during the same period, the
proportion of people in the UK who said that they were “very
happy” fell from 52% to 36%.
4
other surveys present a slightly less
pessimistic picture of wellbeing trends, but in almost all cases they...
To read further please go to:
http://www.smf.co.uk/assets/files/Well%20being.pdf
In 961, reflecting on a long and seemingly successful life, Abdul
Rahman iii, Caliph of Cordoba, wrote:
I have now reigned above fifty years in victory or peace; beloved
by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my
allies. Riches and honours, power and pleasure, have waited
on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been
wanting to my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered
the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my
lot: they amount to fourteen.
edward gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (electric book Company, 2001), Volume V, 401.
1
Two weeks of happiness in a lifetime of abundance is pretty scant.
More than 1,000 years later the Caliph’s gloomy reflections are
more relevant than ever before, and are mirrored in two related
questions that run through the chapters in this book.
First, why are we no happier now than we once were (or to
use the language of the social scientists, why is ‘subjective wellbeing’ no higher)? even in recession, most of us in the west are far
wealthier than at any time in previous decades. between 1957 and
2006, the UK’s gDP per person almost trebled in real terms, rising
from £6,960 to £19,978.
2
Roughly speaking, orthodox economics
equates a rise in the level of purchasing power with an increase
in the wellbeing of a society.
3
Yet, during the same period, the
proportion of people in the UK who said that they were “very
happy” fell from 52% to 36%.
4
other surveys present a slightly less
pessimistic picture of wellbeing trends, but in almost all cases they...
To read further please go to:
http://www.smf.co.uk/assets/files/Well%20being.pdf
The Two Companions
‘You should not neglect your time or use it haphazardly; on the contrary, you should bring yourself to account, structure your litanies and other practices during each day and night, and assign to each period a fixed and specific function. This is how to bring out the spiritual blessing (baraka) in each period. But, if you leave yourself adrift, aimlessly wandering as cattle do, not knowing how to occupy yourself at every moment, your time will be lost. It is nothing other than your life, and your life is the capital that you make use of to reach perpetual felicity in the proximity of God the Exalted. Each of your breaths is irreplaceable and, once gone, can never be retrieved. Do not be like the deceived fools who are joyous because each day their wealth increases while their life shortens. What good is an increase in wealth when life grows ever shorter? Therefore, be joyous only for an increase in knowledge or in good works, for they are your two companions who will accompany you in your grave when your family, wealth, children, and friends stay behind’
(Imam al-Ghazali, Bidayat al-Hidaya)
(Imam al-Ghazali, Bidayat al-Hidaya)
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