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Un'enciclopedia della saggezza per età

Dovevo chiedere alle persone di sintetizzare a parole le tre cose che avevano imparato dalla vita. Più vecchio era l’intervistato, meglio era. Provai a ottenere risposte in vari modi. Cominciai con il porta a porta, ma la maggior parte delle volte mi cacciavano scambiandomi per un fanatico religioso, oppure mi invitavano a entrare persone così sole e con un tale bisogno di parlare con qualcuno che finivano col sequestrarmi in casa. Non mi dispiaceva beccarmi un rifiuto o avere a che fare con i pazzi, perché secondo me l’idea di fondo era fantastica: compilare un’enciclopedia della saggezza nelle varie età della vita, in poche

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#wisdom #age #life

A beauty that sours without goodness

It was impossible for me to tell her age or her nationality. She might’ve been Spanish. She might’ve been Russian. She might’ve been Indian, in part, or…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #age #eyes #heart

Knowledge discovery in escience

Each Knowlet has an ‘attraction’ to each other Knowlet with similar concepts in its ‘Object Cloud’, while some knowlets have very little to do with each other…

Prof.dr. B. Mons #malaria #patterns #drugs #age #association

Middle-aged women disappear

A second, related way in which the social self matters is that if people are treated very differently depending on how they appear, that can change how they…

The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) #society #women #age #self

Ripples of meaning around us

Even though it seemed a little New Age-y for the Silicon Valley set (yeah, right), I started wearing an interesting blue medallion around that I found because…

The Daily Portal – Jon Mitchell, Cosmos Journalist #age #portal #persons #interviews

Same stages, different ages

Piaget believed that children all pass through the same stages when developing their thinking skills. The age at which children accomplish these stages of…

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney) #child-development #thinking #age

The Saturn Return

FOR ASTROLOGY THERE ARE two particularly critical junctures in the life of any individual, the first at the end of their twenties, and the second at the end…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #astrology #age #self