How I Juice Negative Blog Comments For Your Benefit

by Melissa Karnaze on February 4, 2010

squeezerMy job is keep this place safe for you, the reader.

Not just any old reader, but the reader.

Someone who cares about response ability and creating their life as a mindful construct.

You’re the person I’m writing for, and anyone else who’s open-minded or politefully curious.

But all the other readers — the skeptics, the technically-flamers, the incoherent arguers — I’m not writing for them.

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Say Hello to Your Legacy Brain

by Melissa Karnaze on January 29, 2010

brawn and brainYou’ve got a legacy brain whether you like it or not.

No problem right, because “legacy” is a good thing?

In the eyes of some, it’s a bad thing. It’s actually kind of pathetic.

Because the legacy is in reference to your primate (read: immature animal) heritage.

Which is monkey-like, limited, dense, and annoying.

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The Red Pill of Personal Development

by Melissa Karnaze on January 27, 2010

redpillThere’s a lot of pill-popping in the US.

Not just of antidepressants, but of blue pills.

“You take the blue pill. The story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.

You take the red pill. You stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

–Morpheus, The Matrix

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Your Emotions Act as an Information Filter

by Melissa Karnaze on January 25, 2010

red computer code

In “Analyzing What Robots Tell Us About Human Nature,” The Sims creator Will Wright describes how robots will need human capabilities in order to function in the real world.

One such ability is filtering information from the environment.

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How to Be More Mindful of Your Self Talk

by Melissa Karnaze on January 22, 2010

speech bubblesWhat you say to yourself is more important than you think.

And much of what you say to yourself didn’t even come from you in the fist place.

It came from Mommy and Daddy.

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