Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Fake it till you make it.

Act like a boss, become a boss. Sounds too simple? The science of body language begs to disagree. You've heard it before: by pretending we are something, we eventually become it. Now, I don't mean literally by pretending I'm the president I'll find myself in the Oval Office soon enough, that's called a schizophrenic delusion. However, if you are an introvert, by acting like an extrovert you actually become more like one and the same logic applies to a number of other dimensions of our personality. The intersection between biology and psychology is really interesting here and this is a prime example of just how intimately connected the our psychological experiences are with our biology. You can consciously change the way you think, but did you know you can also change the chemical composition of your brain? Without giving away the brilliant results Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist, will reveal in this TEDtalk, I will only note this: the way others perceive a person is not key, how that person perceives themselves is what makes a world of difference. Amy Cuddy is not only terrifically insightful, she is also someone you can relate to, the prefect person to give this talk.

My Mother Told Me I Had A Chameleon Soul

To those who wonder, but are not lost.

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"I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer.

At night I fell asleep with visions of myself, dancing and laughing and crying with them.

Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour, and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times.

I was a singer - not a very popular one,
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.

But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted, and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I'd been living, they asked me why - but there's no use in talking to people who have home.

They have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people - for home to be wherever you lay your head.
I was always an unusual girl.

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean...

And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I'd be lying...

Because I was born to be the other woman.

I belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.

Who had nothing, who wanted everything, with a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about it, and pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me."

An Open Letter to Skinny Bitches

Ever have one of those days you realize if you spend your entire life worrying about your weight, you’re not going to achieve much more? No? In that case why don’t you sit your skinny ass down and take notes. Let that day be today. You are successfully wasting the potential of nature’s most intricate and beautiful device. Every second you spend worrying about being fat: you’re wasting your brain. The brain has the capacity to imagine things and the human body can make them come true. A brain imagined flying. Now we fly. A brain imagined portable fire. Now we use matches. A brain imagined a telescope, the iPhone, a space shuttle, ice cream. Freakin ice cream. A brain can imagine a solution to any problem you have ever had. And you're using yours to come up with ways to become skinnier.

20,864.

That’s the total number of people who died of hunger today. 98% of them were born and died in developing countries. According to World Food Programme there are 870 million hungry people in the world who rarely make the headlines. This group mostly consists of women, children and orphans. These people are not dying to be thin, they are dying because they are too thin. 

So start a revolution, instead hating your body: use it to do something worth remembering.
Make this world better. 

How To Spot A Liar

How To Spot a Lie By Pamela Meyer, a Tedtalk:

Everyone lies. According to research, on any given day we are told a lie anywhere between 10 to 200 times. Now, some lies are harmless. White lies.

Some are significant and destructive.

How do we know when a person is lying? Not as challenging as one might expect. The above video features some nearly fool-proof and eye-opening lie spotting techniques that catch a lie accurately over 90 % of the time. Pamela Meyer, CEO of Simpatico, worked for several years with leading researchers of deception in the military, psychology, espionage and law-enforcement and is trained in interpreting behavior and body language, interrogation, microexpressions and statement analysis. 

                 

Angry Birds

Because let's face it, ignorance is bliss.

In the age of information ignorance is also a conscious choice.

Join the solution and calculate your carbon footprint here.

How Man Became God

Technology is psychedelic and psychedelic = manifestation of the mind

Richard Dawkin's idea of memes, self replicating units of knowledge that have DNA-like abilities is one of the most fascinating cognitive philosophic ideas possibly ever articulated  Essentially all information are memes. Why are memes important? Because of them we are on the fast track to becoming Gods. In this video Jason Silva explores in a conference titled "Dangerous Ideas" the evolution of humanity, existence and nature of information and the infinity of possibilities that can and have manifested from our minds. The ways in which we extend ourselves makes man a bridge and the latter to the skies, literally and metaphorically

Man can create life.

Everything man has created is  the epiphenomenon of the human mind, the non-physical creating physical, virtually something out of nothing.

A Beautiful Mind

AWE.

noun

1. an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand,sublime, extremely powerful, or the like: in awe of God; in awe of great beauty.

2. Archaic. power to inspire fear or reverence.

3.Obsolete . fear or dread.

Youtube channel by Jason Silva: Shots of Awe. The above is the first video of a series which chases awe inducing experiences from complex systems of society, existential jazz to human existence, truth and beauty...