Friday, December 24, 2010
Friday, December 17, 2010
Gracian Tells Good Looking People to Tone It Down
Here's an excellent article from Yahoo Finance on the efficacy of good looking people putting their photos on their resumés. It says that good looking men should include a picture, while good-looking women should leave theirs off. The reason: because young women are doing the resumé screening, that's why.
Gracian has some interesting advice for the good-looking as well, and it's more in line with the attached study's advice to women than to the men.
Gracian has some interesting advice for the good-looking as well, and it's more in line with the attached study's advice to women than to the men.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Three Views of the Nature of Reality
"Take control of your inner state,
Change the illusion you create."
Consciously or unconsciously, everyone holds a particular view of the nature of reality. The above aphorism is either compatible with or in conflict with the view of reality that you hold.
If you believe, for example, that we live in a material world governed solely by the cold logic of the law of cause and effect, then the above statement will seem utterly ridiculous to you.
If, however, you choose to view the world as essentially an illusion in which human beings participate in the ongoing creation of a universal illusion, then the above statement will make perfect sense.
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