What are the most typical signs of stupid… aka low or no intelligence?
First off, what do I consider intelligent?
Intelligent, if you look, has a certain appropriateness. Flow. Fitting. Maybe even elegance. Maybe even grace and ease. Workability. Life working.
Nowadays we hear a lot about AI, artificial intelligence chatbots. Notice that they don’t call it artificial smarts… It’s intelligence.
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How a simple attitude adjustment has made a big difference I decided, a few weeks ago, to start to take the weekends off… if nothing else, in my mind. It makes a big difference. I still answer emails, and maybe even write an article on Saturday or Sunday.
But the attitude is: I do what I like… it’s my day off… And my favorite things to do are reading, writing, and teaching… so weekends are, now, for the first time in 50 years, for doing what I most like to do… and my experience is that taking time off restores my energy, replenishes my resources… what a difference an attitude adjustment makes… Amazing.
This weekend I also watched some TV series on Netflix…
Your worldview is invisible to you. It’s like the floor you walk on… the foundation of your life.
You need to understand that your dislike of certain people makes you a moron if you also decide that THEREFORE what they say must be stupid…
Or you like how someone looks, and therefore they must be smart. Ugh.
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Audio introduction by me:
I have been anguished by the inability of my clients to abide by their food list and make it fully satisfying… Result: their well being tops off at 10%, while mine is 70%.
I saw an article that suggests that following recipes is way inferior to knowing how to cook, knowing the patterns, the principles, the methods, the science and the art of preparing food. I republished that article here Cooking Jazz
Preparing food and your relationship to it is a ‘how’, not a ‘what’. And how you do anything is how you do everything, remember?
If your relationship to food, to the preparation, to cooking is in one way, we’ll find the same one way in other areas of life. So pay close attention to what is your relationship to cooking: this can be life altering.
You are offended. Most everything offends you.
Things don’t go the way they should: they take too long, they are hard, they don’t pan out.
People do things they are not supposed to. And even you do things that you consider wrong, and that offends you. You don’t know how to do it… arrrgh.
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Just so you know, when I wrote that title I had suddenly a sharp reaction in my gut… Fear…
I’ll spend the rest of the day looking at that… very interesting. The word that set it off was the word ‘everything’… So if you reacted the same way… let’s look together!
Your relationship to money, revealed, will shed light to everything in every area of your life.
But it is harder to see them in other areas of life, while in the area of money it, they are easier to see and catch.
The movie Trading Places was funny but wholly and totally psychologically unfounded… Its authenticity ended just after the scene where the Black dude (played by Eddie Murphy) shoves expensive stuff in his pocket to make them his. That was both believable and authentic.
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If the caterpillar planned to become a butterfly, there would be no more butterflies.
What does that mean?
Planning to become, having a goal is counter productive. It takes your eyes off the here and now, and fixates them on some future pie-in-the -sky idea…
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A man survived at open sea adrift clinging to a partially deflated volley ball…
What allowed him to survive? It was the hate of the idea of dying.
Yesterday I watched, again, the amazing Danish movie ‘After the wedding’.
The dynamics were played out with good acting and good directing: The one with strongest hate wins. You hate to die, but you hate to leave your loved ones with no father figure more than death.
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Something historic may happen today and it probably will go unnoticed in the news. It’s something every man, woman, and child in the world should know about.
Before this event can make sense to you, there is a crucial bit of history you must first know …
July 16, marks the 40th Anniversary of the day man first stepped foot on the Moon.
It was indeed “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
But there is a bit of sadness in this event, isn’t there?
No, I’m not about to go on some conspiracy rant. What I’m referring to is far more “common” but infinitely more important.
You see, each and every day people walk around as if nothing is possible.
“If only I could pay off all these bills my life would be so much better …”
“If only I could quit this job …”
“If only I could get people to do as I say …”
“If only I could get out of this marriage …”
“If only I could only choose what to do with my life…”
What’s your “if only?”
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I look at my dreams as guidance.
Now, you need to know that I almost never dream a whole story… I dream moods. Some situations.
Last night I dreamed about going back to Israel, meeting people I had known, experiencing their attitude towards me. Wasn’t pleasant.
And just before I woke up I was shown the theme I am going to write about.
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