Natalie Audelo
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Natalie Audelo
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
Leo Nasskau • René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race
“Specificially, pursuit of novelty creates “luck”, and curiosity is the emotional manifestation of novelty. If we’re more open to what attracts our attention, we’ll get a lot luckier.”
Paul Millerdtwitter.com“ There’s also this other thing (above right) which is functional: My favorite candleholder ever. It’s beautiful, and no one else can ever buy it, because it was made by an old Italian man in Cetara on the Amalfi coast . I want so many things in my life to look like this, and nothing does.”
Blackbird Spyplane • Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting
Self-explanation practices deepen conceptual understanding by making connections with related concepts and elaborating on learned concepts by asking why or how questions. For example, when learning about a circuit model of a neuron, a student could deepen their understanding by going beyond solving a problem to consider the meaning of one part of t... See more
Help Students Retain, Organize and Integrate Knowledge | Teaching + Learning Lab
The real practice of the artist is a way of being in the world. I always had assumed that it was, it was about doing things a certain way is what an artist was. But it’s more than that. Yes, there is an aspect of it that’s about doing things a particular way and in a considered way. But the only way to do things in a considered way is to live in a
... See moreOn Being • Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative
Finding Meaning and
Compliments are an other-oriented token that don’t demand a response from the person they are directed to. They also don’t usually require the receiver to reveal anything — the compliment affirms that what they chose to reveal has been seen and noted.
I might have approached the librarian with something along the lines of, “I love your dress. I had ... See more
I might have approached the librarian with something along the lines of, “I love your dress. I had ... See more
Community in Capitalism
The world is full of people and options, of stories and scenarios. Picking somebody to believe in might be the most incredible testament we can make to one another. Is it just me, or is it a privilege to practice magic with each other every day?