Learning-Linx

13/05/2020

First for a while but well worth watching folks -

What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness an...

16/08/2019

Watch the "Can you make your own luck?" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "How to navigate modern life" playlist.

15/08/2019

Police want everyone to download a smartphone app they say has already saved several lives.

01/08/2019

All life begins without words, life is made and no-one owns it. The Tao is neither selfish nor proud. The Tao is generous and grateful in what it does, without ever claiming any merit. Greatness may lie in taking no credit. (The more I read of Lau Tzu the more I identify the Tao (The way) as Mother Nature, just my slant on it for in verse 1 "The Tao that can be named is not the Tao!")

01/08/2019

29/07/2019

2nd Verse of the Tao: - Under Heaven all can see beauty as beauty, because there is ugliness. All can know good as good because there is evil. Being and non-being produce each other. The difficult is born in the easy, long is defined by short, high by low, before and after go along with each other. The sage lives openly with this duality. He can act without effort, teach without words, nurture things without possessing them. He works not for rewards and competes but not for results. When the work is done, it is forgotten, that is why it lasts forever,

29/07/2019

This is the moment of embarking.
All auspicious signs are in place.
The Tao that can be talked about is not the true Tao. The Name that can be named is not the eternal name. Everything in the Universe comes from Nothing. Nothing - the nameless is the beginning: While Heaven, the Mother, is the creatrix of all things. Follow the nothingness of the Tao and you can be like it, not needing anything, seeing the wonder and root of everything. These two sides are the same, only called by different names and both are mysterious and wonderful. All mysteries are Tao and Heaven is their mother: she is the gateway and the womb door. (Tao te Ching Verse 1)

21/05/2019

oon you may have to be superhuman to even get a job in marketing -

AI-powered advertising copywriters are coming, but can they be taught to be as inventive as humans?

03/03/2019

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/less-fluff-more-stuff-how-to-make-meetings-more-productive/?utm_source=kw_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2019-02-28

Too many office meetings are rambling, unfocused time wasters, critics say. But the author of a new book argues that management science can rescue them.