When I first wrote an article on the topic Weird Thought i didn’t foresee i will have too many to make it a series. But after i wrote it, many new thoughts that this world wouldn’t accept have been creeping in my mind everyday (yeah, really – everyday!). So here is another weird thought about our brain – is it really a master or a slave?
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Criticism, traditionally has been seen as a very bad thing that can happen to a person or to an organisation. Criticism exposes how bad things are and shows a sign of dissatisfaction. It does tarnish the reputation and credibility and many times forces people to lose confidence and guides them to fail even further. Many of us hate criticism and would try really hard to avoid it. We tend to use a variety of techniques such as being offensive (as many say, “offence is the best form of defence”) to trying to be friendly (so that people do not criticise straight into the face). Unfortunately not many of us think about facing criticisms and using them to our favour.
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I was having a chat with a physicist a while ago about celestial objects and the universe. He mentioned that there are an “estimated” 70 thousand billion billion stars ( yes, it is billion billion and not a typo) in the universe and our sun is just one of them. We have many more billions of planets, meteorites, asteroids and what not. And he also said that more stars are constantly being created from hydrogen getting closer to each other and collapsing on its own gravity. It sounded very interesting and certainly convincing given the fact that we actually can picture them using telescopes on earth and with telescopes that go farther into the solar system.
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Welcome to the March 2010 edition of personal development and well being carnival hosted at http://www.karthikrajg.com. This edition features articles related to Personal Development,Well Being and Conscious Living. I have personally gone through each and every article that is featured in this carnival and I find immense pleasure in featuring it in this website!
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Timo: Ever heard about Intelligence Quotient?
Jarmo: Of course, yes.
Timo: Yeah i thought so. I think most of us would have!!
Timo: OK then, how about emotional quotient?
Jarmo: Sounds vaguely familiar. Though don’t know what that means.
Timo: Alright. How about this – Spiritual Quotient?
Jarmo: Spiritual…what?
This dialogue between two colleagues isn’t that uncommon. Our society has placed an extraordinary importance, in the past, on Intelligence Quotient, that we all think, the one with he highest IQ is the best. Continue reading »