February 2011
16 posts
January 2011
61 posts
“In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.”
—Haruki Murakami (via nickmiller)
“People don’t have friends for life anymore; too much movement, internal and external.”
—L.S.
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
—Sylvia Plath (via slampiece)
November Was White, December Was Grey
Say Hi
November was white
and December was grey
Well, someday soon
When the spring brings the sun
I’ll finally sleep, I’ll finally
feel better when the winter’s gone
I’ll feel better when the winter’s gone
I’ll feel better when the winter’s gone
Oh these three months
I’ve been inside the house
My pacing has worn
All of the carpet out
Just give me a breeze
The rebirth of the life
I’ll finally pine, I’ll finally
Feel better when the winter’s gone
I’ll feel better when the winter’s gone
I’ll feel better when the winter’s gone
I’ll feel better when the winter’s gone
I’ll feel better when the winter’s gone
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November Was White, December Was Grey
Say Hi
from the Album Oohs & Aahs
“
Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals, organizations, and societies. Here, however, we test whether creativity increases dishonesty. We propose that a creative personality and creativity primes promote individuals’ motivation to think outside the box and that this increased motivation leads to unethical behavior.
In four studies, we show that participants with creative personalities who scored high on a test measuring divergent thinking tended to cheat more (Study 1); that dispositional creativity is a better predictor of unethical behavior than intelligence (Study 2); and that participants who were primed to think creatively were more likely to behave dishonestly because of their creativity motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more creative positions are also more morally flexible (Study 5).
The results provide evidence for an association between creativity and dishonesty, thus highlighting a dark side of creativity.
” —http://www.newshelton.com/wet/dry/?p=4466
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Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely, Harvard Business School | Continue reading | PDF
“I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That’s what I want to explore. We’re all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we’re going to die, each of us secretly believing we won’t.”
—Synecdoche, New York (via colourmegreenwich) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Man’s conscience doesn’t determine his existence. His social being determines his conscience.”
—Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966) (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
When It's Cold I'd Like to Die
Moby
When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die
Moby
from the album, Everything is Wrong
“Facebook runs on a very stiff, crude model of what people are like. It herds everybody — friends, co-workers, romantic partners, that guy who lived on your block but moved away after fifth grade — into the same big room. It smooshes together your work self and your home self, your past self and your present self, into a single generic extruded product. It suspends the natural process by which old friends fall away over time, allowing them to build up endlessly, producing the social equivalent of liver failure. On Facebook, there is one kind of relationship: friendship, and you have it with everybody. You’re friends with your spouse, and you’re friends with your plumber.”
—Lev Grossman’s profile on Mark Zuckerberg for Time (via lepoinconneurdeslilas)
