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Category: Musings

  • Ted Talk – Stress as a Friend

    To summarise: Stress is only harmful, if you view it as bad and unhealthy. It has no effect on health if people view stress as good, and helping them to prepare. The effects of stressful events such as financial difficulties, are also offset by volunteering to help others.

  • Marketing – Exploitation of Insecurities

    There are quite a few different ways in which marketers try and convince us to buy their products.  Possibly the most widely used method, involves identifying and exploiting common insecurities within a given demographic. Marlboro for example, famously hired Wayne McLaren and branded their product alongside images of macho cowboys, in order to convince young men, insecure…

  • How to Meditate

    I’m not an expert at all, but I think mindful meditation kind of goes like this: Decide on a phrase that you can repeat in your head. Sit down somewhere, repeat phrase and focus on either the phrase or your breathing. Every time your attention strays from breathing or mantra/phrase, bring your attention back to…

  • Today’s Musings

    Random stuff I think about, none of it accurate or based on facts: If the Nazi sniper ‘film’, in Inglorious Bastards was blatant Nazi propaganda. What about the the film American Sniper, directed, allegedly by American hero Clint Eastwood? I’ve not read it, but apparently, in the Bible it says that you’re not allowed tattoos.…