“The fun is to learn. To just keep that learning process going.” ~ Helen Mirren, who turns 70 this month. She has won an Academy Award for Best Actress, four BAFTAs, three Golden Globes, four Emmy Awards, two Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Awards, and one Tony Award. In 2003, she received a Damehood in the Order of the British Empire. She clearly enjoys the perpetual pursuit. (Interview for CBS television show ‘Sunday Morning’ 14 June 2015.)
New brain science shows where expert intuition quickly silently processes information. It’s where master pilots ‘simply’ look outside and see the wind, feel the wing, and just land. It appears that the site of fast, automatic, unconscious cognitive operations—from where a solution materializes all of a sudden—lies in the basal ganglia, linked to but apart from the cortex. These studies provide a telling hint of what happens when the brain brings the output of unconscious processing into awareness. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/intuition-may-reveal-where-expertise-resides-in-the-brain/ In the instant before he drove Kuang’s sting through the base of the first tower, he attained a level of proficiency … Continue reading New brain science on expert intuition
“I am looking to see whether anything is out of order. There will be no time to look for what is missing or out of place when a storm comes up at sea.” ~ Phoenician seaman, circa 330 BC. The ‘secrets’ of airmanship haven’t really been secret for at least the last 2,500 years! (The unnamed seaman is quoted in Delphi Complete Works of Xenophon.)
Work to put love and passion into your work, or else it all becomes just work. Mother Teresa said it better:
