<ul><li>Before modern medicine, unexplained women's behaviors and illnesses were diagnosed as hysteria.</li><li>Symptoms of hysteria included fever and physical pain, as well as behaviors that didn't fit female stereotypes of passivity, feebleness, and fragility.</li><li>Mood swings, anxiety, and depression were all considered symptoms of hysteria.</li></ul>

Anorexia and Hysteria: A Shared History

<ul><li>Psychiatry asylums played a role in anorexia being recognized as its own medical condition separate from hysteria</li><li>At first, psychiatric institutions were places where people with mental illnesses were looked after, but not treated</li><li>This changed with a mental health reformation</li><li>People began to see mental illness as either curable or at least manageable through kindness and therapy</li><li>Psychiatric institutions began offering treatments and rehabilitation to the poor, and accountability came with it.</li></ul>

Separating Anorexia from Hysteria

<ul><li>Since the mid-1800s, we've gained a deeper understanding of why anorexia develops, but its early associations with hysteria have been difficult to escape</li><li>Anorexia and hysteria are not the same illness</li><li>In a 1982 Life Magazine article, it was claimed that "hysteria has almost disappeared, but if there is an equivalent today it is ANorexia, the psychosomatic disorder of young, middle-class women who won't eat."</li><li>A 1988 article from Harvard scientists still suggested that both illnesses were caused by female cultural stereotypes.</li></ul>

Modern Misconception

<ul><li>A psychosomatic disorder is a condition where observed physical symptoms don’t have medical explanations.</li><li>These symptoms are instead attributed to psychological things (e.g., stress, emotions, and personality).</li><li>Many times, we just haven't found medical explanations for them yet.</li><li>However, because we are beginning to find a medical explanation for why anorexia develops (particularly genetics and neurochemical dysfunction), we can't call it a purely psychosomatic condition.</li></ul>

Psychosomatic Disorder

<ul><li>Alexithymia is a personality trait that makes it difficult to identify our feelings, describe what other people are feeling, and to think imaginatively.</li><li>Illness denial is more difficult to find a medical explanation for, but emerging neurological explanations suggest that people with anorexia are not denying their illness out of stubbornness.</li></ul>

Medical Explanations for Psychosomatic Symptoms in Anorexia

Early links to hysteria have contributed to misconceptions about anorexia.

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If God could explain how he made the world he would not be God. The mystery is what what separates the art from the science. Zen is more of an art than a science. Imagine a school that poses the method to make all its students geniuses. All of them with be boring people. You can teach the technique, but the real art is passed through osmosis. That's why Zen teachings have been passed through stories and dialogues. One can not really teach Zen. Only show the way.

Life is a mystery to itself

“You may wish to ask where the flowers come from, but even the God of Spring doesn’t know.”

The goal of Zen stories is to make you smile more than to appeal to your logical side. But if a normal joke is aiming to get you to laugh, Zen stories wants you to get enlightened. To act like shock therapy for the spirit. They always pose very confusing dilemmas. And the story emphasize giving up trying to solve the riddle logically, and relying on spontaneity to solve it. The ultimate goal is to be nonplussed, so that one does get into attachments with society's rules. Zen is about flowing with the Dao.

Zen Stories

Translates to “mind-without-mind.”We all begin life as babies with an intuitive understanding of the world. As we mature, we discover the validity of our emotions. As adults, we graduate to primarily using logic to navigate our lives. Most people stop here, thinking that they mastered the art of thinking.Mushin states that intuition, not logic, is the highest form of understanding. Emotions & logicact as biases if overly relied upon. Paradoxically, it is only when we make the leap from using analytical logic to intuitive understanding that we become thinkers of the highest order.

“Mushin” (無心)

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“We evolve, beyond the person that we were a minute before. Little by little, we advance with each turn. That’s how a drill works!”

“Go beyond the impossible and kick reason to the curb!”

“When you’re scared, that’s all the more reason to move forward!”

“If people's faith in you is what gives you your power, then I believe in you with every fiber of my being!”

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<ul> <li>Bust through the heavens with your soul, Gurren Lagann! Featuring buxom babes, brutal beastmen, and mountainous mecha as only GAINAX can deliver, Gurren Lagann is a non-stop roller coaster of all-out anime action! Gurren Lagann Art Works collects the dynamic imagery of this landmark series, including DVD covers, magazine artwork, poster images, promotional illustrations, and more!</li></ul>

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"The hardest choices, require the strongest wills."

"Reality is often disappointing."

"Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same."

"As long as there are those that remember what was, there will always be those that are unable to accept what can be."

"I know what it's like to lose. To feel so desperately you're right, yet to fail nonetheless."

These thoughts by Thanos are full of wisdom. Should surely check them out. These are my personal favorites!

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Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find a great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being.

Can we have a different economy?

Charles Eisenstein begins this bold and well written book examining why innovation, labor saving devices, and all of the earth's bounty fail to deliver prosperity to most of the people. “After centuries of technological advances, why do we find ourselves working just as much as ever?” he asks, before observing: “For centuries, futurists have predicted an imminent age of leisure. Why has it never happened? The reason is that, at every opportunity, we have chosen to produce more rather than to work less. We have been helpless to choose otherwise.”

Will the work ever stop?

When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the life of the slave—one whose actions are compelled by threat to survival. Perhaps the deepest indication of our slavery is the monetization of time.

Money is created as interest bearing debt. When the interest rate is greater than zero, the debt always exceeds the available money. Servicing the resulting debt requires constant economic growth. Growing the economy requires transforming something that began as a gift from nature or the community into something that can be sold. Nature becomes transformed into commodities and monetized.

Debt Economy

The commons, including land, forests, fresh air, clean water, ocean fisheries, minerals, biodiversity, the genome, and the electromagnetic spectrum, all existed prior to human activities. There is no legitimate right to any private ownership claim to these natural resources. Yet these common assets are continually privatized and monetized to support economic growth. Public goods are privately claimed and sold. Corporations profit at the public’s expense.

Privatization of common assets

“Each tree cut down and made into paper, each idea captured and made into intellectual property, each child who uses video games instead of creating worlds of the imagination, each human relationship turned into a paid service, depletes a bit of the natural, cultural, spiritual, and social commons and converts it into money.”

His solution is an economic system that integrates these seven features:<ol><li>Negative-Interest Currency</li><li>Elimination of Economic Rents, and Compensation for Depletion of the Commons</li><li>Internalization of Social and Environmental Costs</li><li>Economic and Monetary Localization</li><li>The Social Dividend</li><li>Economic Degrowth</li><li>Gift Culture and P2P economics</li></ol>

The solution

“When you hear the phrase “rescue the financial system,” translate it in your mind into “keep the debts on the books.” They are trying to find a way for you (and debtor nations too) to keep paying and for the debt to keep growing.”

“A fundamental premise of this book is that human beings naturally desire to give. We are born into gratitude: the knowledge we have received and the desire to give in turn. Far from nudging reluctant people to give unto others against their lazy impulses, today’s economy pressures us to deny our innate generosity and channel our gifts instead toward the perpetuation of a system that serves almost no one.”

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme - but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to a more connected, ecological, and sustainable way of being. This book is about how the money system will have to change - and is already changing - to embody this transition. A broadly integrated synthesis of theory, policy, and practice, Sacred Economics explores avant - garde concepts of the New Economics, including negative - interest currencies, local currencies, resource - based economics, gift economies, and the restoration of the commons. Author Charles Eisenstein also considers the personal dimensions of this transition, speaking to those concerned with ''right livelihood'' and how to live according to their ideals in a world seemingly ruled by money. Tapping into a rich lineage of conventional and unconventional economic thought, Sacred Economics presents a vision that is original yet commonsense, radical yet gentle, and increasingly relevant as the crises of our civilization deepen.

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"You can stop being part of a mistake, starting now."

"It’s easier to live a convenient lie than a painful truth."

"It’s Not About Changing The World. It’s About Doing Our Best To Leave The World The Way It Is."

"One sword keeps another in the sheath"

Solid Snake and his partner Otacon are lost at sea in the wake of a terrorist attack while rookie FOXHOUND operative Raiden is working to rescue the president from terrorist captors.

METAL GEAR SOLID: THE BEAST IS BACK. WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? In a torrential downpour, former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake stands on the George Washington Bridge–ready to launch himself onto the deck of the U.S.S. Discovery as it passes below. Inside Discovery is a new generation of Metal Gear. But in the next hour, Snake’s world explodes. Two years later, a young, unproven agent code-named Raiden must penetrate the mystery of what went so insanely wrong that night. In a labyrinthine superstructure in New York Harbor known as the Big Shell, enemies, allies, secret agents, and double-dealers converge: Russian commandos, a cyber Vamp, a long-legged, leather-clad, rifle-bearing beauty named Fortune, a deformed, finely manicured bomber called Fatman, and a mysterious Mister X. Somewhere in the maze, as well, is the president himself–his biometrics coded to a bomb that can take out Manhattan, his loyalties unknown. Now the rookie Raiden is fighting his way to one discovery after another, including the rebirth of Solid Snake himself and a nightmare organization with a history, a plan, and a terrifying superweapon hidden in plain sight.

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and the advisor of the Rome's King Neron.The works written about stoicism are known as often present the school of thought in hypothetical terms, however, Seneca's this essay focuses on constructive and practicable advice.

Quotes From "On the Firmness of the Wise Man"

"There is nothing on earth so sacred as not to be liable to sacrilege; yet holy things exist on high none the less because there are men who strike at a greatness which is far above themselves, though with no hope of reaching it. The invulnerable is not that which is never struck, but that which is never wounded."

That such a wise man is invulnerable against all injury;it matters not,therefore,how many darts be hurled at him,since he can be pierced by none of them.Just as the hardness of some stones is impervious to steel,and adamant can neither be cut,broken,or ground,but blunts all instruments used upon it;just as some things can't be destroyed by fire,but when encircled by flame still retain their hardness and shape;just as some tall projecting cliffs break the waves of the sea,and though lashed by them through many centuries,yet show no traces of their rage; even so the mind of the wise man is firm

"... and fortune can take nothing away save what she gave. Now fortune does not give virtue; therefore, she does not take it away. Virtue is free, inviolable, not to be moved, not to be shaken, and so hardened against misfortunes that she cannot be bent, let alone overcome by them. She looks unfalteringly on while tortures are being prepared for her; she makes no change of countenance, whether misery or pleasure be offered to her. The wise man therefore can lose nothing of whose loss he will be sensible, for he is the property of virtue alone, from whom he never can be taken away."

"Under the direction of that destroyer of so many cities, walls may be shaken by the stroke of the ram, lofty towers may be suddenly brought low by galleries and hidden mines, and mounds arise so high as to rival the highest citadel, yet that no siege engines can be discovered which can shake a well-established mind."

" I see rich men who have lost their estates; lustful men who have lost their loves, the courtesans whom they cherished at the cost of much shame; ambitious men who have lost the senate, the law courts, the places set apart for the public display of men's vices; usurers who have lost their account-books, in which avarice vainly enjoyed an unreal wealth; but I possess everything whole and uninjured. See then, Serenus, that the perfect man, full of human and divine virtues, can lose nothing; his goods are surrounded by strong and impassable walls."

"He therefore who is affected by insult shows that he possesses neither sense nor trustfulness; for he considers it certain that he is scorned, and this vexation affects him with a certain sense of degradation, as he effaces himself and takes a lower room; whereas the wise man is scorned by no one, for he knows his own greatness, gives himself to understand that he allows no one to have such power over him, and as for all of what I should not so much call distress as uneasiness of mind, he does not overcome it, but never so much as feels."

"He will not rise in his own esteem if a beggar pays his court to him, and he will not think it an affront if one of the dregs of the people does not return his greeting. So also he will not admire himself even if many rich men admire him; for he knows that they differ in no respect from beggars—nay, are even more wretched than they; for beggars want but a little, whereas rich men want a great deal."

"He will not, then, be moved by an insult from any man for though all men differ one from another, yet the wise man regards them all as alike on account of their equal folly; for should he once lower himself to the point of being affected by either injury or insult, he could never feel safe afterwards, and safety is the especial advantage of the wise man, and he will not be guilty of showing respect to the man who has done him an injury by admitting that he has received one, because it necessarily follows that he who is disquieted at any one's scorn would value that person's admiration."

"Epicurus says that injuries may be endured by the wise man, we say that they do not exist for him...We do not deny that it is an unpleasant thing to be beaten or struck, or to lose one of our limbs, but we say that none of these things are injuries...You ask what difference there is between them? All that there is between two very brave gladiators, one of whom conceals his wound and holds his ground, while the other turns round to the shouting populace, gives them to understand that his wound is nothing, and does not permit them to interfere on his behalf."

"...since those who are most eager to offer affronts are least able to endure them"

" As for insults, offensive language, marks of disgrace, and such-like disfigurements, he ought to bear them as he would bear the shouts of the enemy, and darts or stones flung from a distance, which rattle upon his helmet without causing a wound; while he should look upon injuries as wounds, some received on his armour and others on his body, which he endures without falling or even leaving his place in the ranks. Even though you be hard pressed and violently attacked by the enemy, still it is base to give way; hold the post assigned to you by nature."

In this book; There are so many thoughts that can guide us about life, virtue and how to have a strong character. As a beginner philosophy reader, i have compiled some ideas that i think can shape human life with my own references.

"On the Firmness of the Wise Man" by Seneca (translated by Aubrey Stewart). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

On the Firmness of the Wise Man

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Each day we are confronted with hundreds, probably thousands of decisions. Most of which are insignificant or unimportant or both. Do we really need a whole aisle for toothpaste?</li><li class="ql-align-justify">In response to all of these decisions, most of us adopt a strategy of satisficing, a term coined by Nobel Prize winner Herbert Simon to describe something that is perhaps not the best but good enough. </li><li class="ql-align-justify">For things that don’t matter, this is a good approach. You don’t know which pizza place is the best but you know which ones are good enough.</li></ul>

Decisions Decisions

Satisficing is one of the foundations of productive human behaviour; it prevails when we don’t waste time on decisions that don’t matter, or more accurately when we don’t waste time trying to find improvements that are not going to make a significant difference in our happiness or satisfaction.Example: For most of us, we clean our houses until they are clean enough, reaching a kind of equilibrium between effort and benefit. It is this cost-benefits analysis that is at the heart of satisficing.

Satisficing: Not Perfect But Good Enough

In 1976, the average supermarket stocked 9,000 unique products; today that number has ballooned to 40,000 of them, yet the average person gets 80%– 85% of their needs in only 150 different supermarket items. That means that we need to ignore 39,850 items in the store.This comes with a cost.Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload. Although most of us have no trouble ranking the importance of decisions if asked to do so, our brains don’t automatically do this.

Decision Overload

Our world has exploded. Information is abundant. We have a limited number of decisions. After all, there are only so many we can make in a day without compromising quality. Once we’ve hit that limit it doesn’t matter how important they are.The decision-making network in our brain doesn’t prioritize.We can have trouble separating the trivial from the important, and all this information processing makes us tired. Neurons are living cells with a metabolism; they need oxygen and glucose to survive and when they’ve been working hard, we experience fatigue.

A Limited Mind, An Unlimited World

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second. That bandwidth, or window, is the speed limit for the traffic of information we can pay conscious attention to at any one time. While a great deal occurs below the threshold of our awareness, and this has an impact on how we feel and what our life is going to be like, in order for something to become encoded as part of your experience, you need to have paid conscious attention to it.

The Speed Of Our Mind

In order to understand one person speaking to us, we need to process 60 bits of information per second. With a processing limit of 120 bits per second, this means you can barely understand two people talking to you at the same time. Under most circumstances, you will not be able to understand three people talking at the same time.With such attentional restrictions, it’s clear why many of us feel overwhelmed by managing some of the most basic aspects of life.

The Limited Bandwidth Of Our Brain

Attention is the most essential mental resource for any organism. It determines which aspects of the environment we deal with, and most of the time, various automatic, subconscious processes make the correct choice about what gets passed through to our conscious awareness. For this to happen, millions of neurons are constantly monitoring the environment to select the most important things for us to focus on. These neurons are collectively the attentional filter. They work largely in the background, outside of our conscious awareness.

Our Most Important Mental Resource

Most of the perceptual remains of our daily lives don’t register.When you’ve been driving on the freeway for several hours at a stretch, you don’t remember much of the scenery that has whizzed by: Your attentional system “protects” you from registering it because it isn’t deemed important. This unconscious filter follows certain principles about what it will let through to your conscious awareness.

Missing The Beautiful Sunset

The attentional filter is one of evolution’s greatest achievements. In nonhumans, it ensures that they don’t get distracted by irrelevancies. <ul><li>Squirrels are interested in nuts and predators, and not much else. </li><li>Dogs, whose olfactory sense is one million times more sensitive than ours, use smell to gather information about the world more than they use sound, and their attentional filter has evolved to make that so. </li></ul>If you’ve ever tried to call your dog while he is smelling something interesting, you know that it is very difficult to grab his attention with sound— smell trumps sound.

Dogs And Squirrels

Successful people— or people who can afford it— employ layers of people whose job is to narrow the attentional filter. That is, corporate heads, political leaders, spoiled movie stars, and others whose time and attention are especially valuable have a staff of people around them who are effectively extensions of their own brains, replicating and refining the functions of the prefrontal cortex’s attentional filter.These highly successful persons have many of the daily distractions of life handled for them, allowing them to devote all of their attention to whatever is immediately before them.

Buying Freedom From Distractions

The brain’s change detector is at work all the time, whether you know it or not. If a close friend or relative calls on the phone, you might detect that her voice sounds different and ask if she’s congested or sick with the flu. When your brain detects the change, this information is sent to your consciousness, but your brain doesn’t explicitly send a message when there is no change. If your friend calls and her voice sounds normal, you don’t immediately think, “Oh, her voice is the same as always.” Again, this is the attentional filter doing its job, detecting change, not constancy.

The Attention Filter Reports Anomalies, Not Routine Signals

If you’re driving, a billboard for your favourite music group might catch your eye (really, we should say catch your mind) while other billboards go ignored. If you’re in a crowded room, at a party, for instance, certain words to which you attach high importance might suddenly catch your attention, even if spoken from across the room. If someone says “fire” or “sex” or your own name, you’ll find that you’re suddenly following a conversation far away from where you’re standing, with no awareness of what those people were talking about before your attention was captured.

Catching The Mind

The human brain has evolved to hide from us those things we are not paying attention to. In other words, we often have a cognitive blind spot: We don’t know what we’re missing because our brain can completely ignore things that are not its priority at the moment— even if they are right in front of our eyes. Cognitive psychologists have called this blind spot various names, including inattentional blindness.

The Mind Makes Us Intentionally Blind

iPhones and iPads, email, and Twitter are the new revolutions.Each was decried as an addiction, an unnecessary distraction, a sign of weak character, feeding an inability to engage with real people and the real-time exchange of ideas.Our brains have collectively gone over the danger mark as information gets fed into it in truckloads.

When The Internet Happened

The industrial revolution brought along a rapid rise in discovery and advancement. Scientific information increased at a staggering clip.Today, someone with a PhD in biology can’t even know all that is known about the nervous system of the squid! Google Scholar reports 30,000 research articles on that topic, with the number increasing exponentially. The amount of scientific information we’ve discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

Information Overload

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master. This, like many clichés, so lame and unexciting on the surface, actually expresses a great and terrible truth.

Learning How To Think

Attention is created by networks of neurons in the prefrontal cortex (just behind your forehead) that are sensitive only to dopamine. When dopamine is released, it unlocks them, like a key in your front door, and they start firing tiny electrical impulses that stimulate other neurons in their network. But what causes that initial release of dopamine? Typically, one of two different triggers:<ul><li>Something that is salient to your survival, with evolutionary origins.</li><li>You effectively will yourself to focus only on that which is relevant to a search or scan of the environment.</li></ul>

How The Attention Process Works

<ul><li>As knowledge becomes more available— and decentralized through the Internet— the notions of accuracy and authoritativeness have become clouded. </li><li>Conflicting viewpoints are more readily available than ever, and in many cases, they are disseminated by people who have no regard for facts or truth. </li><li>Many of us find we don’t know whom to believe, what is true, what has been modified, and what has been vetted.</li></ul>

Why Curation Is Important

Highly successful people have many of the daily distractions of life handled for them, which allows them to better focus their attention.

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The History of Cognitive Overload

Social media and self-help books make the hustle culture look easy. They use the dopamine of positivity to make you think you can carry on non-stop without thinking. But our vision often doesn’t align with the result. The self-helps keep rubbing your face about how working hard can help you get the rich level of Steve Jobs or Jeff Bezos, but they don't tell that they only got super-rich in their 40s-50s. They did work hard and smart, but they had many failures and obstacles to overcome.

Hustle culture can lead to burnout

Self-helps are often repetitive copy-paste works from other books, but self-help can't copy-paste philosophy. Philosophy questions the subject to get a clearer answer instead of just touching the surface. They question the what, when, where, who, why, and how. Philosophy can save you from accepting blindly what people might call "great" or "you need to buy this". It can save you from blind preaching too.

Philosophy encourages critical thinking

“He (CS Lewis) taught me to look deeper into the millstone than simply the surface. Everything that comes across in life should be examined, not simply accepted. And that includes religion and personal problems.”

Once you have exposed yourself to some philosophy, it's easier to spot the many self-help ads or self-validating posts on social media. Most people on social media use it for the notifications or to be influencers by showing flashy or luxurious objects. But the truth is that if you want to spot the real businessman, you have to look for older people or people who are humble. From their stories, it is clear that they have been through a lot of stuff and had to swallow their pride.

Philosophy helps you to pull the reins of blind grinding and preaching

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Philosophy Is The Antidote Of The Hustle Culture Poison

If I hear a great idea X, what is neXt?Everyone is pushing the envelope in science and arts, but the process of invention can seem very confusing.We need a mental framework. Idea Hexagon.

How to invent?

<ul><li>Raise your problem to the next level.</li><li>Generalizing an idea to the next dimension.</li><li>flickr(images) --> youtube(video)</li></ul>

Dimension

<ul><li>Combine idea X with something you already know like idea Y.</li><li>More dissimilar the two ideas, the more spectacular its fusion.</li><li>Portable CT = CT Machine + Space Telescope</li></ul>

Addition

<ul><li>Don't just solve the original problem that was solving a specific solution, but try to solve all the other solutions as well.</li><li>If an App store improves the quality of a phone and provides new solutions, What about an App store for every electronic gadget that's out there like microwave, refrigerator, car ?</li></ul>

Given a hammer, find all the nails. 

<ul><li>Given a new problem, don't just use the original solution for it, but trying to find all the solutions as well.</li></ul>

Given a nail, find all the hammers.

<ul><li>This idea hexagon is not just for inventing new technology, but can also be used for various things like figuring out what to do on your next vacation?</li><li>Maybe take it to the next dimension or combine that with some other ideas that you have, solve the earlier problems in new ways or do exactly the opposite of last year plans... </li></ul>

How to vacation like Ramesh Raskar?

<ul><li>Most common adjectives you would use are faster, better, cheaper…</li><li>Some more like adaptive, distributed, efficient and newer ones like -</li><li>Wikipedia is encyclopedia democratized. </li><li>Pandora is radio personalized.</li></ul>

Take your original idea and add an adjective.

<ul><li>Straddle method in high jump sport changed to Fosbury method due to the introduction of foam robber in place of sandpit.</li><li>An irrelevant change that transforms the whole ecosystem and allows you to do the exactly opposite of everybody else.</li><li>High end medical instruments --> high resolution screens --> eyeNetra</li><li>This invention helped medical diagnosis reach children who need glasses and grown-ups get job in poor countries. This was a great socio-economic problem.</li></ul>

Take an idea X and do exactly the opposite of what everybody else is doing.

Everybody faces problems daily and figures out ingenious solutions to it at their personal level. This is my tribute to them. Hope it helps!

As the Head of MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Research Group, Professor Ramesh Raskar is credited with a long list of innovations, including a smartphone attachment that can diagnose eye problems. But he makes the point that you don't have to be a PhD to be an inventor. This inspiring talk from TEDxBeaconStreet equips every one of us with an easy-to-use framework for inventing the future, right now. Ramesh Raskar is a renowned inventor and innovator. He holds over 40 US patents and is recognized as a leading authority on computational photography. Slides for this talk: http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/raskar-ink-2012-in-pune-india-future-of-imaging-and-idea-hexagon Ramesh Raskar's home page: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/ In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

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As the Head of MIT Media Lab's Camera Culture Research Group, Professor Ramesh Raskar is credited with a long list of innovations, including a smartphone attachment that can diagnose eye problems. But he makes the point that you don't have to be a PhD to be an inventor. This inspiring talk from TEDxBeaconStreet equips every one of us with an easy-to-use framework for inventing the future, right now.

Ramesh Raskar is a renowned inventor and innovator. He holds over 40 US patents and is recognized as a leading authority on computational photography.

Slides for this talk: http://www.slideshare.net/cameraculture/raskar-ink-2012-in-pune-india-future-of-imaging-and-idea-hexagon
Ramesh Raskar's home page: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/

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