I want to tell about my method to fight laziness. To apply it, you do not need strength of will, a special mindset, enthusiasm, non-depression, ants in your pants, or to attend NLP courses or Shaolin Monastery.
"Beständigkeit liegt nur im Wandel" - diesen alten Schopenhauer-Aphorismus bestätigten jetzt Kulturwissenschaftler, Psychologen und Biologen in einer gemeinsamen Studie. Die vier Forscher untersuchten die Beliebtheit von Namen, Musik und Hunderassen und fanden heraus, dass es in allen Bereichen eine ähnliche Turnover-Rate gibt.
MSTROHM: "Why lists won't become superfluous."
The list is the origin of culture. It's part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order -- not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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In the case of Google, both things do converge. Google makes a list, but the minute I look at my Google-generated list, it has already changed. These lists can be dangerous -- not for old people like me, who have acquired their knowledge in another way, but for young people, for whom Google is a tragedy.