Late last week, I got a brain wave (see title above) while watching a Hallmark movie. Suddenly, I realised that I'm stuck in 4 of the 5 DABDA stages: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression while being unable to reach stage 5: Acceptance. The similarity with my mother (91) is striking. Subsequently, I realised that Hope might be the flipside of DABDA. That coin...
Early March 2023, I published a diagram (below left) on the impact of (i) coupling & decoupling, as well as (ii) chaos, equilibrium & vacuum on the four (4) stadia that govern Change in our lives, being Doubt, Fear, Hope & Love. Even then my 2023 diagram felt quite complex. Following some recent changes, I felt that my 2023 diagram needed more...
A 1915 war poem by Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) mentioned the 3 most important items: Life is colour, warmth and light; my 2022 blog. Other people may add beauty, hope, inspiration, love, peace, and/or water. In my view, beauty and peace are in the eye of the beholder. Hence, personal and relative. Almost each day, I express my gratitude for the items above....
I agree with this Financial Times heading and that is a problem. Over the years, I have learned that voters are emotional rather than rational - let alone logical and consistent. Hence, my expectation is that Geert Wilders (PVV) will - once again - win the 2025 Dutch general election. Most other Dutch political parties claim that they will not form a coalition...
Intro LO: De vraag hierboven en hieronder is interessanter dan die lijkt. Mijn inziens is het antwoord zowel een JA als een NEE, afhankelijk van hoe je denken definieert. Waarschijnlijk heeft psycholoog Daniel Kahneman (1934-2024) daarom een splitsing aangebracht tussen snel en langzaam denken (zie boek). Snel denken is eigenlijk vooral reageren, zowel emotioneel...
Intro LO: The FT article (below) mentions intuition as a difference between human intelligence and artificial intelligent machines: "Machines don’t get tired, bored, drunk or distracted, but they struggle with real-world “edge cases” that require contextual awareness and intuition, such as how best to navigate a blockage on the road, or what a construction worker...
Recent Comments