"Here’s the thing, belle.” My voice drops. “Since you came into my life, I don’t need people anymore. I just need you.”
Guilt Obsession Behind a Cloud of Rockets
genuinely traginew, dandy then, babe,
the age-old bile:
dummies stuffed with wax and
steel,
a deeper dark than any dark
we have ever
These Mad Windows That Taste Life and Cut Me If I Go Through Them
(...)
I become quiet
I listen to their sounds—
their baseball games, their comedies, their quiz shows,
their dry kisses, their kindling safety,
their hard bodies stuffed into the walls and murdered,
and I go to the table
take my madman’s crayons
and begin drawing them on my walls
all of them—
loving, fucking, eating, shitting,
frightened of Christ, frightened of poverty,
frightened of life
they crawl my walls like roaches
and I draw suns between them
and axes and guns and towers and babies
and dogs, cats, animals, and it becomes
difficult to distinguish the animal from the
other, and my whole body sweats, stinks,
as I tremble like a liar from the truth of things,
and then I drink some water, take off my clothing and
go to bed
where I will not sleep. (...)
Tools or skills, the same thing...
“The brain is not a central computer. Rather, it is a Swiss Army knife with many specialized tools. Unfortunately, our “pocketknives” are incomplete. Given our life experiences and our professional expertise, we already possess a few blades. But to better equip ourselves, we must try to add two or three additional tools to our repertoire—mental models that are far afield from our areas of expertise.”
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“Beyin merkezi bir bilgisayar değil. Aksine, birçok özel alete sahip bir İsviçre Çakısı. Maalesef “çakılarımız” eksik. Yaşam deneyimlerimiz ve profesyonel uzmanlığımız göz önüne alındığında, halihazırda birkaç bıçağa sahibiz. Ancak kendimizi daha iyi donatmak için repertuvarımıza iki veya üç ek araç eklemeye çalışmalıyız; uzmanlık alanlarımızdan çok uzakta olan zihinsel modeller.”
Only in the co-operation of an enormously large number of atoms do statistical laws begin to operate and control the behaviour of these assemblies with an accuracy increasing as the number of atoms involved increases. It is in that way that the events acquire truly orderly features. All the physical and chemical laws that are known to play an important part in the life of organisms are of this statistical kind;
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They don’t tell you what to do about that, what happens when it’s the end of the world, the dead come back to life, and you have to piss. Go in pairs, I guess, and hope the one that doesn’t die is you.
Aslında akıl, duygusal zekâ olmadan tam verimli çalışamaz. Normal koşullarda, limbik sistemle neokorteksin, amigdalayla prefrontal lobların birbirini tamamlaması, zihinsel yaşamda her birinin ötekine eşlik etmesi anlamına gelir.
Bu eşler iyi bir etkileşim içerisinde oldukları sürece duygusal zekâ entelektüel yetenekle birlikte yükselir.
In fact, the intellect cannot function fully efficiently without emotional intelligence. Under normal conditions, the complementarity of the limbic system and the neocortex, the amygdala and the prefrontal lobes means that each accompanies the other in mental life.
As long as these partners interact well, emotional intelligence rises together with intellectual ability.
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Yaşam bizi çok çeşitli seçimlerle baş başa bırakır
ve hayat boyunca duygusal öğrenimle edinilenler, başlangıçta bazı seçenekleri eleyip bazılarını öne çıkararak kararı şekillendirecek sinyaller verdirir.
Dr. Damasio’ya göre, bu şekilde duygusal beyin, muhakeme alanında düşünen beyin kadar işe karışır.
Demek ki, duygular mantıklı olmak için gereklidir. Duygu ile düşüncenin dansında, duygusal yetenek akılcı zihinle el ele verip düşüncenin kendisini devreye sokarak -veya devreden çıkararak- kararlarımızı her an yönlendirir. Benzer şekilde, düşünen beyin, duyguların kontrolden çıkıp duygusal beynin dolu dizgin gittiği anlar hariç, duyguları idare eder.
Life leaves us with a wide variety of choices
and what is acquired through emotional learning over a lifetime gives signals to shape the decision, initially eliminating some options and favouring others.
According to Dr Damasio, in this way the emotional brain is as involved in reasoning as the thinking brain.
In other words, emotions are necessary for reasoning. In the dance of emotion and thought, the emotional faculty works hand in hand with the rational mind to guide our decisions at every moment by engaging - or disengaging - thought itself. Similarly, the thinking brain manages emotions, except when emotions get out of control and the emotional brain runs amok.
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Move Olive my turn!!!!
Sitting.
On.
Adam.
This. Yep, this.
This was her life now.
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So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.
Life, what is it but a dream?
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And İcarus' life, it has only just begun
Öyküde İkarus diye bir insanoğlundan söz ediliyordu; uçma hayalini gerçekleştirmek için kendine kartal tüylerinden kanat yapmış ve çok yükseklere, güneşin çok yakınına uçmuştu, o kadar ki, sıcaklık tüyleri sırtına yapıştıran balmumunu eritmiş, böylece İkarus da suya düşmüştü.
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“Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless energy, that with us is strength, would become weakness.
Even in our own time certain tendencies and desires, once necessary to survival, are a constant source of failure. Physical courage and the love of battle, for instance, are no great help —may even be hindrances—to a civilised man. And in a state of physical balance and security, power, intellectual as well as physical, would be out of place. For countless years I judged there had been no danger of war or solitary violence, no danger from wild beasts, no wasting disease to require strength of constitution, no need of toil. For such a life, what we should call the weak areas well equipped as the strong, are indeed no longer weak.
The child has a primary need from the beginning of her life to be regarded and respected as the person she really is at any given time.
