To live, to love, and to leave a legacy.
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Attention
Because attention is so closely connected to our brain’s basic wiring, it can be difficult to recognize our own patterns of giving attention – patterns we’ve been absorbing since birth. Yet different cultures do allocate attention differently. For example: psychologist Richard E. Nisbett concluded (in his underwater scene study) that East Asians focus on relationships…
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Fashion, an interesting viewpoint…
The Economist writes: A Man’s Guide to a Woman’s Wardrobe For me it gave me a few things to think about: Fashion is the language of the tribe (some are leaders, some are followers, some are wanna-be’s and some don’t speak the language). “membership” does not cost a fee, but is a way of thinking…
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The Spiritual Path?
Just now, I was listening to (yet another) Anthony Robbins movie. The man is good, very good. But for me the problem is always that it is so incredibly difficult to reflect upon myself and to actually practice (in order to get the benefit). But this time he said something that deeply impacted me and…
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News?
Why are there so few people that, like me, believe news is highly over rated? I try to shy away from news (with perhaps an exception for factual business news related to my professions) for the reasons that news is so shallow: it changes every day, generally does not give any worthy insights and in…
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Mantra 33 Consolidation
As you might already know, every year near my birthday I post the proclamation for myself for the coming year. When I was an old teenager I was spending serious time connecting to my mystic roots through meditation. When I was 18 I predicted my 31ste year would be my year of Money – I…
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Google Circles
While I personally really like the concept – and it is more usefull if all my communicationpartners are using it (remember the faith of Google Wave) – it has, as can be expected from Google, a highly technical cool-factor with an awesome potential; but I do feel there is a human factor called discipline that…
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Possible PhD research subject in the Education area.
Together with my Vision for Education and my life experience I hope to some day start working on my PhD dissertation & defense. Several years ago I have formulated my goal for this possible area of research. Here the extract: Aspects of Future Didactical Systems in Higher Vocational Education – a Roadmap for Change With…
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Dealing with the Differences in Production
For my notes on the 20110319 Libertarian Party supported discussion meeting the following important question the libertarian movement should have a (preferably theoretically proven) answer for: What to do with those people who (can only) produce less than they need to exist? Or in Dutch (for my archive): wat te doen met die mensen die…
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Building a Dutch Libertarian Foundation
Mission To find financial support for my Washington, DC trip to collect & translate libertarian lessons learned and best practices for the Dutch market. Introduction Hello, I’m Pallieter Koopmans. Since 1996 I have been of the firm belief that the way in which we organize and “do” politics as a society can be greatly improved…
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Ingredients for My Vision for Education
I have since I was 16 been very interested in assisting the transformation of the education system. My fundamental beliefs for this need are: Education should be brain-based – differentiated based on learning style. Education is life-long and should address all aspects of living (balance between: mental, physical, emotional, spiritual). Information is omnipresent and should…
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