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#feelings
Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Fare la lista delle proprie passioni
cerchiamo di capire se nella vita ci siamo mai chiesti realmente, concretamente, onestamente se qualcosa ci piace, se qualcosa ci appassiona. Se sì, lavoriamo su questa lista di passioni, per cercare di capire quante di esse siano realizzabili, quali lo siano di più e quali…
Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Emotions versus feelings
This kind of filtering is exactly what emotions do in the brain. You’re probably used to thinking of emotions as the same thing as feelings, but to the brain, they’re not. In the textbook definition, emotions are simply the activation of neurological circuits that prioritize…
Teaching a child to name jealousy
“I don’t like it,” the 3-year-old muttered to herself as the guests left. Miserable throughout her older sister’s birthday party, she was now growing angry. “I want Ally’s doll, not this one!” Her parents had bought her a consolation present, but the strategy went down like a…
Dio odia il Giappone (Douglas Coupland, M. Howatson and Anna Mioni)
Ogni rapporto ha le sue zone d'ombra
Potrei dirti molte cose su quello che provo rispetto alla vita e al mondo e a quello che abbiamo dentro: cose che, in un certo senso, non potrei dire nemmeno a Scott, perché ogni rapporto ha le sue zone d’ombra. Ma non lo farò, perché viviamo in mondi diversi e devo lasciar…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Religious and moral feelings are (forgotten) associations of simpler emotions
Association.—All strong feelings are associated with a variety of allied sentiments and emotions. They stir up the memory at the same time. When we are under their influence we are reminded of similar states and we feel a renewal of them within us. Thus are formed habitual…
Judgement derives from Belief, Belief from Pleasure and Pain
The first step towards the logical is judgment, the essence of which, according to the best logicians, is belief. At the foundation of all beliefs lie sensations of pleasure or pain in relation to the apprehending subject. A third feeling, as the result of two prior, single…
each individual decides and determines alone, and never comes out of his own personality
Now, the great majority of mankind endure life without any great protest, and believe, to this extent, in the value of existence, but that is because each individual decides and determines alone, and never comes out of his own personality like these exceptions: everything…
We are primordially illogical and hence unjust beings and can recognise this fact
An inclination towards a thing, or from a thing, without an accompanying feeling that the beneficial is desired and the pernicious contemned, an inclination without a sort of experiential estimation of the desirability of an end, does not exist in man. We are primordially…
Science can show us how opinions come to existence
From this world of conception it is in the power of science to release us only to a slight extent—and this is all that could be wished—inasmuch as it cannot eradicate the influence of hereditary habits of feeling, but it can light up by degrees the stages of the development of…
The strength of feeling is no voucher for the validity of knowledge
What they claim is that through the medium of profound feelings one can penetrate deep into the soul of things (Innre), draw close to the heart of nature. But these feelings are deep only in so far as with them are simultaneously aroused, although almost imperceptibly, certain…
Leielui (italian Edition) (de Carlo, Andrea)
Baci e abbracci tra semplici conoscenti
Lei va ad abbracciare Tommaso e Lauretta a sua volta, senza riuscire a mettere autentico calore in questa piccola recita sociale. L’abitudine italiana degli scambi di abbracci e baci anche tra semplici conoscenti continua a lasciarla leggermente perplessa, non ci si è mai…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
Un'estetica giapponese è possibile
Nel presente capitolo esamino alcune forme artistiche nei settori più disparati: il teatro, la cerimonia del tè e la poesia (l’haiku). Ne emerge una visione d’insieme, ancora più unitaria di quella ricavabile dalla componente etica o epistemologica in Giappone. Alcune…
Shin, cuore e mente (definizione)
Shin. Designa il cuore/mente, le facoltà psichiche ed emotive dell’uomo, mai disgiunte. In certe scuole buddhiste acquista il senso di «coscienza percettiva». Nella psicologia cognitiva contemporanea si può rendere con «coscienza».
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
To be a behaviorist you have to feign anesthesia
The real difficulty with behaviorism, though, is that its sheer implausibility became more and more embarrassing. We do have thoughts and feelings and pains and tickles and itches, but it does not seem reasonable to suppose that these are identical with our behavior or even…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Subordinating an impulse to a value
The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values—carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.
Love is a verb
In the great literature of all progressive societies, love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They’re driven by feelings. Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are not responsible, that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script does…
Love as a value actualized through actions
Love is a value that is actualized through loving actions. Proactive people subordinate feelings to values. Love, the feeling, can be recaptured.
Daily behavior betrays how we feel
pressing problems, immediate concerns, and outward behaviors. I become reactive. And the way I interact with my children every day often bears little resemblance to the way I deeply feel about them.
Integrity is the value we place on ourselves
The degree to which we have developed our independent will in our everyday lives is measured by our personal integrity. Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It’s our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to “walk our talk.” It’s honor with…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Being amazed at the usual
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odd—uncanny and highly improbable. G. K. Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at a gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite…
The ego as an onion with no kernel
You will feel like an onion: skin after skin, subterfuge after subterfuge, is pulled off to find no kernel at the center. Which is the whole point: to find out that the ego is indeed a fake—a wall of defense around a wall of defense … around nothing. You can’t even want to get…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
A man does not consist of memory alone
If there is a continuity of key character traits, there will be some, albeit a radically diminished, continuity of the self too. ‘A man does not consist of memory alone,’ wrote the psychologist A.R. Luria, ‘he has feeling, will, sensibilities, moral feeling – matters of which…
Eliminative materialists feign anaesthesia
The first is that thoughts, feelings, emotions and so on are real. There are some ‘eliminative materialists’ who claim that they aren’t, but in I.A. Richards’s famous phrase, such thinkers seem to ‘feign anaesthesia’,…
The feeling is right, the interpretation wrong
The feeling (resistance to compression) is entirely veridical: only the interpretation of the feeling (there is a marble there) is mistaken. He only goes wrong when he misinterprets what it is
The Functional Art: An Introduction To Information Graphics And Visualization
Infographics strive for objectivity, not self-expression
Rather than serving as a means for the artist to express her inner world and feelings, an infographic or visualization strives for objectivity, precision and functionality, as well as beauty.
Too Much To Bare: Behind The Scenes At A Lap-dancing Club | Life And Style | The Guardian
Lap dancing takes a thick skin
Some of the girls shouldn't be doing it because they don't make money," the house mother says. "You have to have a thick skin and the right kind of mentality. Some customers might not like them. You have to be able to take it on the chin. If they get knocked back, I am here to…