"the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others"

Dunning–Kruger effect

(via hellogiggles)

"Being close to your work engages the doing system. When you are far from it, you think about it more conceptually. Distance engages the thinking system."

Predictions of the Year 2000 from The Ladies Home Journal of December 1900 →

Prediction #11: No Mosquitoes nor Flies.  Insect screens will be unnecessary.  Mosquitoes, house-flies and roaches will have been practically exterminated.  Boards of health will have destroyed all mosquito haunts and breeding-grounds, drained all stagnant pools, filled in all swamp-lands, and chemically treated all still-water streams.  The extermination of the horse and its stable will reduce the house-fly.

"How much anxiety could be spared then if we just put down the mirror?"

Nina J.

"At the outset, recall that we are primates, and as such are obsessed with everything visual. We are observant, imitative and status-conscious too; and assess the appearance of others consciously and unconsciously as we decide what to do from one moment to the next. Our brains expend great cognitive effort in the interpretation of faces, and we instantaneously assess information about a person’s age, health, mood, intention and attractiveness as we scan their face. Our perceptions of attractiveness are also affected by social factors. We are inordinately influenced by our peers, especially as adolescents, because we seek acceptance and fear rejection. At the same time we also become highly conscious of social position, and seek to emulate individuals who we perceive as having higher status. Social anxiety about peer evaluation often persists through adulthood, with the tendency to imitate being more pronounced in women than in men. Looking or acting like someone with high status confers status by proxy."

Nina Jablonski

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via helplesslyamazed)

(Source: quote-book)

"Unlike today’s Westerners, the Chinese in the imperial past did not consider copying or imitation a moral offense. Rather, they considered it a ‘noble art’, a ‘time-honored learning process’ through which people manifested respect for their ancestors… Confucius proudly acknowledged in the Analects that he had “transmitted what was taught to [him] without making up anything of [his] own."

Peter K. Yu  on the historical role of copying in ancient China

"God has given me the power to give life to the dead, sight to the blind, sound to the deaf; but He did not give me the power to heal the fool of his foolishness."

Jesus, the son of Mary

"It is of no use to know something if one does not act upon it. In truth, an abundance of knowledge only increases one in pride if one does not act accordingly."

Jesus, the son of Mary (ahmad) 

قصة قصيرة

عاش في البيت المجاور امرأة مسنة،.
توفي زوجها قبل خمس سنوات، ومنذ عامين، تعرضت ابنتها مع زوجها وطفلين لحادث،
توفوا جميعاً على اثره.

عندما عدت من العمل، وعلى باب المدخل
كان هذا الإعلان، مكتوب بخط اليد:

“فقدت 20 دولاراً، علي من يجدها - يرجى ارجاعها إلى الشقة 76، معاشي صغير، لا يوجد ما يكفي لشراء الخبز.”

في الشقة 76 عاشت المرأة العجوز وكنت أعرف حالها، فقررت الادعاء بأنني وجدت ذلك المال فأخرجت 20 دولاراً وصعدت إلى حيث مكان إقامتها …

بكت المراة العجوز حينما اعطيتها المال: “أنت الشخص الثاني عشر الذي يأتي إلي بالمال ويقول إنه وجده”.

ابتسمت واتجهت بالفعل إلى المصعد، عندها نادتني وقالت لي: “لو سمحت قم بتمزيق الاعلان، انا لم اكتبه”.

وقفت المرأة العجوز تبكي، وتقول تعاطفكم ومواستكم هو ما يعطيني الامل.

عرفت يومها أن الخير سائد في هذا العالم لو أردنا أن ننظر إليه ..

Bruce Lee Philosophy

“Flowing water never grows stale.”

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