ALAN WATTS

• The phonetic system does not use pictorial signs but symbols to refer to spoken sounds. Modern alphabets that many people in the world use today represent a phonetic form of communication.
• Remnants of these systems appeared either around 19th century B.C. from the early Canaanite p...

Our autonomic nervous system is constantly scanning our internal and external environment for signs of danger. If it detects a threat, its next strategy is the fight or flight response which we often feel as anxiety.

Sometimes the threat is so bad or goes on for so long, that the nervous ...

Inspiration vs systems is an oversimplification because motivation is often part of the system.

• Motivation can help us over challenging goals.
• Many goals are really external motivators that motivate us inconsistently.

If we can view mot...