Two words that can change the world, YES AND

 

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"To have a second language is to have a second soul." - Charlemagne

Transform Your Presence

"Albert Einstein once said that try not to be a man of success but to be a man of value. Now we all have credentials that make us good at what we do but to be remarkable, unforgettable, ask yourself how do I want people to feel when they work with me? What is that one feeling that will be synonymous with me?"

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Ted Talks: Secretes to understanding life

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Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work:

"What we are finding is not necessarily that reality shapes us, but through which lens the brain views the world that shapes reality. If we could change the lens, not only can we change happiness, we can change every single educational business outcome at the same time."

"90% of your long term happiness is not predicted by the external world, but by the way your brain processes the world."

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Richard Feynman: Physics is fun to imagine

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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

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The mind behind Linux

"...my sister said that my biggest exceptional quality was that I would not let go.
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...I am not a visionary. I do not have a five-year plan. I'm an engineer. And I think it's really -- I mean -- I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds and looking at the stars and saying, "I want to go there." But I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in. This is the kind of person I am.
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The beauty of what we'll never know

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So when we said goodbye that night, I realized he had also shown me the secret point of travel, which is to take a plunge, to go inwardly as well as outwardly to places you would never go otherwise, to venture into uncertainty, ambiguity, even fear.

At home, it's dangerously easy to assume we're on top of things. Out in the world, you are reminded every moment that you're not, and you can't get to the bottom of things, either.

3:25Everywhere, "People wish to be settled," Ralph Waldo Emerson reminded us, "but only insofar as we are unsettled is there any hope for us."...

I don't believe that ignorance is bliss. Science has unquestionably made our lives brighter and longer and healthier. And I am forever grateful to the teachers who showed me the laws of physics and pointed out that three times three makes nine. I can count that out on my fingers any time of night or day. But when a mathematician tells me that minus three times minus three makes nine, that's a kind of logic that almost feels like trust.

4:51The opposite of knowledge, in other words, isn't always ignorance. It can be wonder. Or mystery.Possibility. And in my life, I've found it's the things I don't know that have lifted me up and pushed me forwards much more than the things I do know. It's also the things I don't know that have often brought me closer to everybody around me....Knowledge is a priceless gift. But the illusion of knowledge can be more dangerous than ignorance.......transformation comes when I'm not in charge, when I don't know what's coming next, when I can't assume I am bigger than everything around me. And the same is true in love or in moments of crisis. Suddenly, we're back in that trishaw again and we're bumping off the broad, well-lit streets; and we're reminded, really, of the first law of travel and, therefore, of life: you're only as strong as your readiness to surrender.
In the end, perhaps, being human is much more important than being fully in the know."

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New York Times Article: One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die

Quotes from the BJ Miller's Ted Talk:

"So much of what we're talking about today is a shift in perspective.
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We know, for example, from research what's most important to people who are closer to death: comfort; feeling unburdened and unburdening to those they love; existential peace; and a sense of wonderment and spirituality.
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... Sensuous, aesthetic gratification, where in a moment, in an instant, we are rewarded for just being. So much of it comes down to loving our time by way of the senses, by way of the body -- the very thing doing the living and the dying.

...As long as we have our senses -- even just one -- we have at least the possibility of accessing what makes us feel human, connected. Imagine the ripples of this notion for the millions of people living and dying with dementia. Primal sensorial delights that say the things we don't have words for, impulses that make us stay present -- no need for a past or a future.

...So, if teasing unnecessary suffering out of the system was our first design cue, then tending to dignity by way of the senses, by way of the body -- the aesthetic realm -- is design cue number two. Now this gets us quickly to the third and final bit for today; namely, we need to lift our sights, to set our sights on well-being, so that life and health and healthcare can become about making life more wonderful, rather than just less horrible. Beneficence.
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... you can always find a shock of beauty or meaning in what life you have left, like that snowball lasting for a perfect moment, all the while melting away. If we love such moments ferociously, then maybe we can learn to live well -- not in spite of death, but because of it. Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination."