The single of Prague could soon find salvation for their loveless woes with the introduction of carriages dedicated to “singles” on the Czech capital’s underground network.
“In the metro you can already read and learn, so why not find a partner?” said Filip Drapal, spokesman for Ropid, Prague’s transport company. “We want to make life more pleasant. People today have no time to meet.
cute :))
this is from 20 Unique Faces In 20 Unlikely And Hidden Places …thus 19 more unique faces if you follow the link :)
Source: sobadsogood.com
seems like a good idea
there are some good points in this article.
i don’t feel fine, but maybe i should… cause maybe in fact i didn’t waste my 20s… i did quite many things, although now they seem to have no relevance…and i didn’t manage to find myself.
an older (from Dec 2011) article, but quite interesting…
and not only Americans can learn from Finns.
a few quotes
Finland’s national education system has been receiving particular praise, because in recent years Finnish students have been turning in some of the highest test scores in the world.
what matters is that in Finland all teachers and administrators are given prestige, decent pay, and a lot of responsibility. A master’s degree is required to enter the profession, and teacher training programs are among the most selective professional schools in the country. If a teacher is bad, it is the principal’s responsibility to notice and deal with it.
a line from Finnish writer named Samuli Paronen: “Real winners do not compete.” It’s hard to think of a more un-American idea, but when it comes to education, Finland’s success shows that the Finnish attitude might have merits. There are no lists of best schools or teachers in Finland. The main driver of education policy is not competition between teachers and between schools, but cooperation.
Since the 1980s, the main driver of Finnish education policy has been the idea that every child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location. Education has been seen first and foremost not as a way to produce star performers, but as an instrument to even out social inequality.
“Married people are happier than unmarried people. They are healthier, live longer, have more sex,” and do better on nearly every indicator of happiness
“A little money can buy you a lot of happiness, though a lot of money buys you only a little more happiness.”
“People are happiest when the mind is engaged,” Gilbert said, whether talking, creating, or having sex (another point for marriage).
He displayed a bar graph showing that childless adults are much happier than parents. “Once people have kids, there’s a downturn in happiness,” he said, which isn’t reversed until the kids move out.
“One will always remember that magical, momentary ending,” but forget the uneventful innings before. “That’s just like spending a day with a 5-year old,” he said, when an “I wub you” from the child may validate all the difficult hours.
but…what is happiness? :)
again, scientifically, about love… this time from a psychologist’s point of view.
Love perhaps best can be seen as a sort of a prism – looking at it in different ways reveals different faces of the same phenomenon. For example, one face of the prism might specify components of love, such as intimacy, passion and commitment; another face might specify the stories of love that give rise to such components, such as stories of fantasy, mystery, theatre, or even horror; yet another face of the prism might show the role of cognitive processes, such as intelligence, creativity and wisdom, in the formation and maintenance of successful loving relationships. This article examines some of the faces of the prism, which I observed in a series of stages over the course of a research career.My whole life I have been searching for love. At a personal level, after a number of false starts, I have found it. In my research – initiated when a love relationship in my personal life was failing – I have tried to come closer to understanding what love is, how it develops, and why it succeeds or fails.
highlighting the earning power of live performances as the industry increasingly goes digital
“Ironically, the most popular touring artists are usually well past their peaks on the album sales charts.”
something I’m saying about music industry for several years already
cute
He scribbled down the benefits of remaining single, which included, among other things:
• “Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.”
• “Conversation of clever men at clubs”
• “Choice of Society & little of it”
• “Freedom to go where one liked”
• [The avoidance of] “the expense & anxiety of children”
On that same piece of paper, he wrote of the rewards of marriage:
• “Constant companion, (& friend in old age) who will feel interested in one”
• “Object to be beloved & played with”
• “Better than a dog anyhow”
• “Home, & someone to take care of house”
• “Charms of music & female chit-chat”
[…]
By the way, Charles Darwin had an exceedingly happy marriage, by all accounts, and had ten children.
To be at your peak, don’t work so much.
A new and growing body of multidisciplinary research shows that strategic renewal — including daytime workouts, short afternoon naps, longer sleep hours, more time away from the office and longer, more frequent vacations — boosts productivity, job performance and, of course, health.
Source: The New York Times
HOW MUCH OF THE WEEK IS WORK, HOW MUCH IS PLAY?
It‟s about 97% play, 3% work. Most of my work is playful. I’m a very fortunate person, many blessings in my life. It‟s a matter of perception, you know?
really like this guy :)
another link/website that I periodically check and enjoy…
first thing I saw today on Facebook was this link… the courses have just started or will start soon… so maybe you’ll find something interesting for you too.
the website is very nicely organized.
a very good read
some excerpts:
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing,” Frankl wrote in Man’s Search for Meaning, “the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
“It is the very pursuit of happiness,” Frankl knew, “that thwarts happiness.”
Leading a happy life, the psychologists found, is associated with being a “taker” while leading a meaningful life corresponds with being a “giver.”
“Happy people get a lot of joy from receiving benefits from others while people leading meaningful lives get a lot of joy from giving to others,” explained Kathleen Vohs
but in my view, it depends what meaning is put into the concept of happiness… if you ask me about the moments when i felt happy - they can be described as both being a giver and taker. and in fact lately i understand that the reason for me being unhappy is because i feel as i’m not giving enough to others, to the world, even to myself :)) and giving is not as you cut from your own being and then suffer… giving is also a selfish process, you give and you feel good, although maybe not externalizing it. and if you suffer, maybe you indulge in suffering?
but i so agree that attitude is really important
hm, this resource is probably there for a long time already… but i just discovered it. very cool.
this is personal.
White Roses, Vincent Van Gogh (1890)
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