Davos 2009
O canal do YouTube do World Economic Forum @ Davos: http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldEconomicForum.
Atenção que estão aqui muitas horas potenciais de procrastinação.
Wow
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/woody_norris_invents_amazing_things.html
Estou verdadeiramente espantado! Se este tipo ainda não é, depressa vai ser um multi-milionário! E o mais inscrível disto tudo, não tem nenhum curso superior.
- PO
Estatutos do IST
Não posso deixar de felicitar a quem teve a ideia desta iniciativa, que se continue no futuro com exemplos destes: http://estatutosist.wordpress.com/.
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Status Ansiedade
Para perderem mais algum tempo da vossa vida, aqui vai mais um documentário de Alain de Botton, baseado no livro do mesmo nome: Status Anxiety! Altamente recomendado!
Parte 1: http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=3990041308783281409&hl=en
Parte 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaLzRdsdPm
Parte 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDqZ8Hn0w50
Nota: A parte 2 e 3 estão repartidos em partes mais pequenas. Vão ter que procurá-las no Youtube… 
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Consolo da Filosofia
Já tinha lido o livro, mas encontrei a versão video do mesmo. Estou a falar do “Consolo da Filosofia” de Alain de Botton. Os vídeos cobrem bem as ideias do livro, pelo que só recomendo este último se quiserem obter mais pormenores.
Aqui vai então mais um pouco de sabedoria para começar bem o ano de 2009:
- Episode 1: Socrates on Self-Confidence – Why do so many people go along with the crowd and fail to stand up for what they truly believe? Partly because they are too easily swayed by other people’s opinions and partly because they don’t know when to have confidence in their own.
- Episode 2: Epicurus on Happiness – British philosopher Alain De Botton discusses the personal implications of the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (341-270BCE) who was no epicurean glutton or wanton consumerist,but an advocate of “friends, freedom and thought” as the path to happiness.
- Episode 3: Seneca on Anger – Roman philosopher Lucious Annaeus Seneca (4BCE-65CE), the most famous and popular philosopher of his day, took the subject of anger seriously enough to dedicate a whole book to the subject. Seneca refused to see anger as an irrational outburst over which we have no control. Instead he saw it as a philosophical problem and amenable to treatment by philosophical argument. He thought anger arose from certain rationally held ideas about the world, and the problem with these ideas is that they are far too optimistic. Certain things are a predictable feature of life, and to get angry about them is to have unrealistic expectations.
- Episode 4: Montaigne on Self-Esteem looks at the problem of self-esteem from the perspective of Michel de Montaigne (16th Century), the French philosopher who singled out three main reasons for feeling bad about oneself – sexual inadequecy, failure to live up to social norms, and intellectual inferiority – and then offered practical solutions for overcoming them.
- Episode 5: Schopenhauer on Love – Alain De Botton surveys the 19th Century German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) who believed that love was the most important thing in life because of its powerful impulse towards ‘the will-to-life’.
- Episode 6: Nietzsche on Hardship – British philosopher Alain De Botton explores Friedrich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) dictum that any worthwhile achievements in life come from the experience of overcoming hardship. For him, any existence that is too comfortable is worthless, as are the twin refugees of drink or religion.
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El Arte de Prudencia
Para quem não conhece este livro, não perca tempo… leia-o já! Como costumo dizer, Baltasar Grácian é um Machiavelli com coração.
Aqui vai uma tradução em inglês da sua obra-prima para começarem o ano de 2009 cheios de sabedoria: http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/aww/index.htm
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