January 2010
154 posts
The social components of self-control →
psychotherapy:
For the most part, self-control is seen as an individual trait, a measure of personal discipline. If you lack self-control, then it’s your own fault, a character flaw built into the brain.
However, according to a new study by Michelle vanDellen, a psychologist at the University of Georgia, self-control contains a large social component; the ability to resist temptation is...
“I’m interested in the aesthetics of empathy.”
– Momus
for as much as i think about empathy, i’d never thought of it in quite that way.
“I like to be out of control and free. The only way to do that is to create...”
– james murphy: http://lcdsoundsystem.com/clip1/
“Your personal ideal with its striving for freedom from ego-oriented desires, for...”
– -Albert Einstein
In a letter to Erik Gutkind
thought
i have been noticing more and more cut & paste status updates in facebook lately, which seems to suggest that: if your statuses are about statuses, you’re starting to head down the path into some kind of recursive hell, and may wish to log off for a few to do something status worthy.
“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of...”
– James M. Barrie (Author of Peter Pan’s Adventures) (via fluffed) (via frakintosh)
Two things I figured out today while obsessively thinking during my lunch hour:
1. How to explain why vacations stress me out.
2. Never again be honest with people about what stresses me out.
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty...”
– Vaclav Havel
Watchperfection, perfection.
yipe.
that dfw quote about the building was not supposed to be posted (i hit queue apparently, rather than draft). it had been part of a conversation about making difficult choices, not about suicide.
people who worry (thanks mom), please don’t :)
thought:
being around an inconsiderate person is like having someone follow you around telling you you’re worthless every fifteen minutes.
“Finding the bravery to shun faux reassurance is a critical step in producing...”
– Seth Godin, No, everything is not going to be okay.
Ironically, this is kind of the exact advice i needed to hear right now.
“One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he...”
– DFW.
Yeah, i’m in one of those moods where he’s the only person that makes sense.
“this bridge was written to make you feel smittener
with my sad picture of girl...”
– Dresden Dolls.
someone today told me that this reminded them of me. hm.
“it’s hard not to love a 68-year-old woman who heads a media empire, knows...”
– Via Salon
