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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)

L'alternativa al sistema esiste

Una dimostrazione, soprattutto, che non è vero che siamo tutti costretti a vivere nello stesso modo, che non c’è alternativa, che il cambiamento è impossibile. La vera arroganza non è del meccanismo consumistico e capitalista – cioè, apparentemente, il nemico – bensì di chi lo…

#capitalism #consumerism #choice #freedom

Capire se e come cambiare vita

Ecco il tema di questo libro: aiutare le persone a capire se e come possono cambiare vita, concretamente, uscendo dalla morsa del paradosso.

#downshifting #life #choice

Libertà da e libertà di

La libertà ha due facce. C’è quella da e quella di. L’una è propedeutica all’altra, visto che se non sono libero da un vincolo non posso essere libero di fare alcunché. Però essere libero dal vincolo non è metà dell’opera. Un uomo libero che non sappia cosa fare della sua…

#freedom #dreams #choice

Coraggio, parola chiave del millennio

La parola chiave di questo millennio è: coraggio, qualcosa che l’uomo ha sempre dovuto tirare fuori per districarsi dai suoi guai, per affrontare la giornata. Il sistema in cui viviamo ci ha protetto così bene da renderci schiavi volontari, perché ci chiede sì coraggio…

#courage #choice #freedom #conformity

Alla fine di ogni precetto c'è il «mi piace»

Jack London diceva che alla fine di ogni precetto filosofico, al termine di ogni dogmatismo, c’è il «mi piace», che taglia la testa al toro e ci spinge in una direzione piuttosto che in un’altra. Lui era un uomo plasmato con la forgia, uno che non ipotecava mai nulla della sua…

#passion #happiness #choice

L'avvenimento siamo noi

Attenzione, perché questo è uno dei limiti che troveremo lungo la strada: credere che non potete farcela, pensare che sia troppo per voi. Marguerite Yourcenar mette in bocca al suo personaggio Zenone una frase molto bella a riguardo: «L’avvenire è gravido di più occasioni di…

#future #choice #self

Bugged Out At 20: Electro-house, Minimal Techno, New Rave (john Burgess)

Minimal techno

By 2005, this was the sound that filled most clubs in London and across Europe. Minimal at its best was Latin-infused, hypnotic and seductive. But sometimes the tracks were so stripped back it sounded risible. I wondered what motivated a producer to go into a studio to produce…

#drugs #sound #use #choice

Calvinism (wikipedia Contributors)

Doctrine of predestination

Reformed theologians teach that sin so affects human nature that they are unable even to exercise faith in Christ by their own will. While people are said to retain free will in that they willfully sin, they are unable to not sin because of the corruption of their nature due to…

#people #persons #action #choice #nature #characteristics

Durante (Andrea De Carlo)

Profondità o varietà: vivere al riparo dal mondo

Più Ingrid andava avanti a mostrarci e commentare le sue fotografie, più avevo la sensazione che io e sua sorella fossimo invece rimasti immobili, bloccati nello stesso luogo e nelle stesse sensazioni come i nostri due telai erano bloccati sul pavimento del laboratorio. Provavo…

#routine #experience #choice #changes

Una vita ristretta a una sola scelta

Avevo la sensazione che la mia vita come la conoscevo stesse andando in pezzi, con una tale rapidità da lasciarmi incapace di reagire. Ero incredulo di non aver colto i segnali di quello che stava per succedere, di non aver elaborato per tempo una strategia di difesa o di…

#choice #identity #routine #fate

La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )

Questa strada ha un cuore?

Ogni strada è soltanto una tra un milione di strade possibili. Perciò dovete sempre tenere presente che una via è soltanto una via. Se sentite di non doverla seguire, non siete obbligati a farlo in nessun caso. Ogni via è soltanto una via. Non è un affronto a voi stessi o ad…

#choice #heart #fear #life

Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)

Rifiutare la scelta tra bianco e nero

A pensarci da qui, con la stanchezza e la tristezza della situazione finita che le invadono i pensieri, le sembra davvero un gioco ridicolo di opposti: ordine-confusione, allegria-rassicurazione, superficialità-profondità, divertimento-noia. Non ha mai accettato l’idea di dover…

#freedom #choice #rules #identity

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana

Autonomy of the system

Thus the Autonomy of the system is paramount. The system can only do what it does at any particular moment of doing. There are no other choices in the system. A system is always in its proper place and cannot be mistaken.

#place #moment #choice

Researchers Opt To Limit Uses Of Open-access Publications : Nature News & Comment

Open-access authors still want reuse restrictions

Academics are — slowly — adopting the view that publicly funded research should be made freely available. But data released yesterday suggest that, given the choice, even researchers who publish in open-access journals want to place restrictions on how their papers can be…

#profit #choice #view

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)

Happiness as giving up now for later

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

#happiness #desire #choice

Frankl and the last of the human freedoms

One day, naked and alone in a small room, he began to become aware of what he later called “the last of the human freedoms”—the freedom his Nazi captors could not take away. They could control his entire environment, they could do what they wanted to his body, but Viktor Frankl…

#freedom #choice #identity

Liberty versus freedom

They had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options. He became an inspiration to those around him,

#freedom #choice #power

No one can hurt you without your consent

As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, “No one can hurt you without your consent.” In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.” It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, that hurts us far more than what happens to…

#choice #pain #proactivity

I had chosen to be miserable

“When I finally realized that I do have that power, when I swallowed that bitter pill and realized that I had chosen to be miserable, I also realized that I could choose not to be miserable.

#choice #happiness #proactivity

What matters most is how we respond

My own experience with people confirms the point Frankl makes—that the highest of the three values is attitudinal, in the paradigm or reframing sense. In other words, what matters most is how we respond to what we experience in life.

#attitudes #values #choice

The vocabulary of proactive language

Proactive Language Let’s look at our alternatives. I can choose a different approach. I control my own feelings. I can create an effective presentation. I will choose an appropriate response. I choose. I prefer. I will.

#language #proactivity #choice

We cannot choose the consequences of our actions

Before we totally shift our life focus to our Circle of Influence, we need to consider two things in our Circle of Concern that merit deeper thought—consequences and mistakes. While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions.

#choice #action #freedom

Consequences are governed by natural law

Consequences are governed by natural law. They are out in the Circle of Concern. We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the train hits us. We can decide to be dishonest in our business dealings. While the social…

#principles #character #choice

Rehearsing a proactive response

Identify an experience you might encounter in the near future where, based on past experience, you would probably behave reactively. Review the situation in the context of your Circle of Influence. How could you respond proactively? Take several moments and create the…

#proactivity #imagination #choice

Our own design or other people's agendas

We are either the second creation of our own proactive design, or we are the second creation of other people’s agendas, of circumstances, or of past habits.

#creation #proactivity #choice

A burning yes that lets us say no

Habit 2 clear sense of direction and value, a burning “yes!” inside that makes it possible to say “no” to other things. It also requires independent will, the power to do something when you don’t want to do it, to be a function of your values rather than a function of the…

#priorities #values #choice

The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon)

Knowing when to walk out of the world

As Marcus Aurelius writes, it is one of ‘the noblest functions of reason to know whether it is time to walk out of the world or not’. Unknowing and uncertain, the philosopher walks.

#death #philosophers #choice

Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)

Toddler rooms built for choosing

According to Erikson, toddlers need to experience the independence of being able to make some choices for themselves. Toddler programs can support their independence by arranging for self-selection of activities and materials. Rooms should include low shelves for equipment…

#autonomy #choice #design #education

Small choices for toddlers

Most two-year-olds aren’t ready for “What would you like for lunch today?” But choosing between a cheese sandwich and a peanut butter sandwich offers just the right challenge. Looking at a drawer full of clothing might reduce a toddler to tears or a tantrum because the choices…

#choice #autonomy #children

Offer a choice of how, not whether

Many teachers make the mistake of offering toddlers a choice when there really isn’t one. It’s very confusing for children who are trying to learn how much control they really have to be asked a rhetorical question. Adults and school-age children can understand that “Would you…

#choice #autonomy #language #teaching

Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)

Andarsene per chi crede in te

Prima o poi avrebbe dovuto lasciarlo comunque, non c’è discussione: e l’unico modo era prendere al volo l’offerta di qualcuno disposto a credere in lui e investire nelle sue capacità, dargli un ruolo da protagonista, offrirgli una ribalta adeguata.

#ambition #choice #work