Category Archives: All Life Lenses
What is perspective?
It’s like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone! ~ Merrill Markoe, U.S. television writer. What we see as normal, natural and right can be annoying habits to others. How quickly the view can change … Continue reading
Changing perspective – from war to peace
Changing perspective. From war to peace. From guns to doves. From misunderstanding to understanding. From positions to possibilities. From one perspective to another. Perspective both shadows and illuminates. What’s your perspective done for you lately? Sokak Sava?a Kar?? | Streets … Continue reading
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Assumptions – an example for how to id & avoid them
Assumptions. We all make them. All the time. What’s worse is we’re usually unaware that we’re making them. Assumptions that is. They’re devilishly difficult to identify. They play with our heads and how we see what’s in front of our … Continue reading
Complexity of communication makes for a bigger brain
Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar at Harvard writes an interesting blog post about how socializing expands brain size. Turns out Oxford scholars say the “more social creatures, among them humans, had the most rapidly expanding brain sizes … Continue reading
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Change how you see not how you look
Change. Is tough. Perspective. Informs how we can change. Change how you see not how you look. Can bring some pretty fantastic perspective shifts. How do you see?
Full Monty – monthly round up of June Life Lenses™ blog posts
Knowledge isn’t power, sharing knowledge is power. In the first of monthly round ups, here are the Life Lenses™ blog posts laid bare for the month of June. Get bare, dive in deep and take a full look around or … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, global perspective, jen louden, knowledge, perspective, shero, yogurt
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Global perspective – what sound does your heart beat?
From a global perspective what song does your heart beat? Something with choreographed symbols and full on symphony or are you more African beat and wild abandon? Perhaps the husky whiskey soaked hue of the blues or the smoky eyes … Continue reading
Freedom for creativity? Freedom from creativity? Is this a playground or a jail?
Freedom? Restrictions? Limitations? Guidelines? Safety? Security? Sanctions? Sanctimonious? The signs surrounding the playground that swam by me as I jogged my way around Washington Square in New York City got me thinking. Do we need rules to set us free? … Continue reading
A ludicrously easy, perspective changing way to better tie your shoes
How long have you been tying your shoes? Me – I remember knocking on a neighbours door and then realizing my shoelace was untied. For the first time I tied my shoes all on my own. I was so excited … Continue reading
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Playing in the sandbox of perspective: who’s ‘ami’ are we talking about?
I laughed myself silly when I saw the video below. Count the times the guy says ‘Miami’. I’ll save you some time – it’s 6. It takes him 6 times to put himself in the little girl’s shoes or rather … Continue reading
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Tagged global perspective, learning perspective, miami, perspective, worldview
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