Tag: understanding

• Am I anybody’s keeper?

  Is it possible to understand the world as if you were another person? Or, no matter the effort, would you still be imprisoned within yourself -feeling what you assume you would feel if you were in the same circumstance as her? That what you manage to sample of her condition is inevitably filtered through your […]

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  April 28, 2021

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  Aeon.co, creative imagination, emotion, empathy, feelings, Maria Konnikova, masks, pandemic etiquette, Sherlock Holmes, social distancing, Thomas Nagel, understanding

• Learned without Opinion…

  Sometimes we are almost too confident, aren’t we? Encouraged by something we’ve just read, and recognizing it as being already on file in our internal library, we congratulate ourselves on the depth and breadth of our scope. Perhaps it’s the title of an abstruse article, and even the picture at the top of the page […]

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  February 19, 2020

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  Aeon.co, Alaxon, books, choice, deceptive clarity, desirable difficulties, Edge.org, Hermann Hesse, Jacob Burak, knowledge, learning, Magister Ludi (the Glass Bead Game), Marcia Linn, memory, Robert Bjork, Tania Lombrozo, understand, understanding, unintended consequences, University of California

• Does the Best Safety Really Lie in Fear?

  There are many unheralded benefits of age, one of which is invisibility -changing from a potential threat into a banality. A non-entity for whomever might otherwise be at risk. I can watch from shadows while the world strides past –on the street, in a bus, in a coffee shop. Wherever. Men, until they age it […]

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  April 25, 2018

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  Age, BBC news, danger, Dr. Fiona Vera-Gray, Durham Law School, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), fear, gender divide, harassment, hormones, insecurity, Liz Kelly, panic, power, Robbie Burns, safety work, sexual harassment, The Right Amount of Panic, understanding

• Meanings

  Can we ever understand each other? Know what is being asked of us? It’s not just a medical problem; it’s universal, I suspect. And it’s one that entails far more than simply comprehending the meaning of a word in both its denotative (definitional) as well as its connotative (secondary, or evocative) usage. It involves apprehending -truly appreciating […]

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  February 22, 2013

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  communication, doctor/patient relationship, listening, Meaningful encounters, medical communication, patient communication, relationship, understanding, wellness, women’s health, women’s issues, words