Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. — Dame Edna Everage I have a simple question for you: If you were to rate yourself on a scale of 1 to 10, what would you choose? … All right, time’s up. But wait,…
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. – Erich Fromm Who here would like to take a psychological test measuring creativity? Or a better question: who’s even here? Well, let’s assume the answer to both of those questions is “you,” so we can get straight into this classic psychology problem. Imagine that you…
If you believe everything you read, better not read. — Japanese Proverb Spring, how glorious thou art. Birds all a flutter. Trees of blooming pink. Warmth and breeze and gaiety and love. But behind every flitting bird is an animal ready to poop on your car. And all those blossoming trees? Just little white flowers…
If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Cesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I dare say, envied Hercules, who never existed. – Bertrand Russell To the astute reader—or to the one familiar with calendars—today is my first ever, late blog entry. Gasp! “I don’t believe it!” “How could you?” Or as…
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. ~Kurt Vonnegut They say that you should laugh for at least 12 seconds every day. Even if nothing funny’s happened. Even if you’re just sitting in your car, by yourself, in…