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Nidhi Thakur: #Is that really you?
Brunch (Photo credit: shareski)
It is really ironic that the moment I read this topic in Brunch, I didn’t turn to the 50 people sitting around me at work. Instead, I logged onto my Twitter account and posted a tweet asking a bunch of strangers for their valuable inputs and bounced ideas and theories off them. What is funny is that discussing it with people didn’t even occur to me. Also, before posting the tweet, I didn’t spend a second to decide whether I agreed with the viewpoint or not. But the response I received just endorsed my subconscious decision.
Today we live in an age where a city-wide distance from our loved ones doesn’t hurt us as much as the detachment we feel when we charge our phone and it’s inaccessible. So important has virtual acceptance become, that we do not realise how and when it takes over our real existence.
Continue reading on Brunch…
Adidas: Running
English: sports shoe by adidas Deutsch: Sportschuh von adidas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A run begins the moment you forget you are running.
Adidas ad
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Is tech making us stupid?
Nicholas Carr speaking at the VINT Symposium held in Utrecht, Holland on June 17, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The above statements have been pouring in from scientific studies across the world. This is their essential premise: that multitasking between emails, Facebook, Twitter, TV, mobile phones, tablets and gaming consoles have made us perpetually distracted and a scatter-brained race. Not only is the
new era of information technology making us less creative and more muddled – it’s put into place a permanent change in the way our brain maps information, how it retains it, which parts are used how and even the size of the brain is going through a metamorphosis. Very scary, right? Wait, there’s more.
Shallow and fried
The first news of this came when a series of articles and a book was released by Nicholas Carr. His argument was that ever since the advent of the Internet, we as a human race have been becoming more stupid. His book (The Shallows: How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember) made some very compelling points. Taking himself to be the guinea pig, Carr said that over the last few years the way he read and absorbed books was completely changing. He said, “I was losing my own capacity for concentration and contemplation. Even when I was away from my computer, my mind seemed hungry for constant stimulation, for quick hits of information. I felt perpetually distracted.”
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- Don’t blame Twitter when journos tweet stupid things; blame stupidity (stevebuttry.wordpress.com)
Sabbatical
Followers of this blog will have noticed that there have been no original posts since the beginning of this year.
The story:
I have taken a sabbatical from writing; the quotes will continue—hard,fast and strong.
Till then!
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Lara Flynn: Humor
Lara Flynn Boyle at the 42nd Emmy Awards – Governor’s Ball in September 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it. ”
—Lara Flynn
Pluses and minuses
“So many plusses, so many minuses. ”
—Lionel Blue
Instrument, rather than ornament
Alanis Morissette in concert (Photo credit: coccinella)
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one’s body as an instrument rather than just an ornament. It’s a really great way to reorient how you see your body so you can see it as this incredible, awe-inspiring machine that you need to fuel well in order for it to function.
Alanis Morissette, singer/actress
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