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Better than a wish lamp?

Better than a wish lamp?

Lifelong learning is like having three wishes and using them to have more.

Does never ending learning aim for growth beyond your own reality? When learning is expanding the horizon of your current reality, what is holding you back then? Can you do something about it? Are you the one in control? What is in and what can be under your control?

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Taking Action!

Taking Action!

Can you take action?

Science says yes! But that is the beginning of another story.

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One Encounter

One Encounter

... can change the way how we perceive the world and how we live our lifes. One new observation, one new conversation or one new piece of wisdom.

As long as we keep our mind open for constructive criticism and questioning the taken granted, we can continue growing.

How could questioni...

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Connection & Sharing

Connection & Sharing

We are gifted. We can share, discuss, (ex)change perceptions, opinions, convictions with total strangers from other parts of the world.

Diversity means wealth for innovation, as different think-tanks can be geniusly recombined.

Thanks to Deepstash to ...

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Well if it was that easy, your world would look already different after reading the sentence before, right? But you are not some logical calculating system, where 1 + 1 = 2 always.

You are human. In your life, perception gives you situations, where one plus one equals zero....

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Answers

Answers

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

— Lloyd Alexander

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What can you hear?

What can you hear?

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

— Jimi Hendrix

...listening...

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Attention! What are you looking at?

Attention! What are you looking at?

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

— Hellen Keller

So at the end changing your perception is coming down to – Are you willing what it takes?

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READ ME

READ ME

Please excuse possibly occurring spelling/grammar mistayxs, as non-native they are like John Cena — You can't see me. Consider this - What would this kind of criticism tell about yourself, when you are using a platform for non-professional created content

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Limited Perception = Limited Information

Limited Perception = Limited Information

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

— Maya Angelou

Are our (automated) prejudices legit?

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The power of encounting questions

The power of encounting questions

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

— Markus Aurelius

Can you influence your thoughts? What triggers them intern-/externally? Can you contol your exposure to these triggers? Can others control their exposure to their triggers? Is your or the...

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Just Karma?

Just Karma?

You get what you deserve. Instead of being a good person today, you choose instead to become one tomorrow.

— Markus Aurelius

But why do we tend to push change away? Isn't the quote a little too monocausal? Has everyone equal external circumstances for internal changes? Are yo...

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The face of change

The face of change

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

— James Baldwin

Why does ignorance outweigh attention sometimes? How can you reflect your subconscious perception filters? In situations of realisation? In what-if situations? Could reg...

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Wise Quotes

Wise Quotes

Pieces of condensed wisdom that can change someones perception of the world. (I call them growth-steroids ;)

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So... what about You?

So... what about You?

Now to the main question – Can you change your perception?

Science says Yes! End of story.

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Just a curious forever-child appreciating to question taken for granted things constructively.

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Practical minimalism goes beyond aesthetics to foster self-betterment. Ultimately, seeking minimalism is a process of value clarification, editing out the unnecessary, and refining.

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Desiring a growth-driven mindset

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  • The growth-driven mindset requires you to admit your shortcomings, and commit to a long-term plan. You may need to extend beyond your comfort zone.

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  • The more you say, the more common you appear
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