An artist keep their life miserable and to relieve from suffer they create something. The level of their masterpiece depends on the level of misery.

D90 or D5000?

Once you have the skill to elicit great photos from one camera, you can get them from any camera. It's like pianos: a 9-foot Bösendorfer may be better piano than the upright at the local bar, but if you can't play the piano, you won't get good music out of any of them. Anyone can bang on a piano and anyone can shoot a camera, but it takes an artist to get decent results from either one. The sad part is how many well-meaning people think photography is as simple as buying a camera.

source http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/d5000.htm

Trio Lestari

Gue nggak akan ninggalin permainan asli gue di Jerman -Sandhy Sundoro-

Even science needs its beauty to attract the scientist

From Henri Poincare:

Le savant n'étudie pas la nature parce que cela est utile; il l'étudie parce qu'il y prend plaisir et il y prend plaisir parce qu'elle est BELLE.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is BEAUTIFUL.

C'est par la logique qu'on démontre, c'est par l'intuition qu'on invente.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.
To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

--drawin,invitingandmaketheywantmore--

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

By Rusty Lindquist

Note: I’m going to be referring to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs in a number of upcoming posts about goal-setting, education, career advancement, as well as business and marketing, and wanted to first lay the groundwork by a post dedicated to simply understanding this motivational framework.

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It’s 1943, and Dr. Abraham Maslow just wrote an article entitled “A Theory of Human Motivation”. It would become one of the pivotal frameworks for understanding individual motivation and happiness.

The article appeared in Psychological Review. It was an expanse of his book “Toward a Psychology of Being”, and later culminated in his book “Motivation and Personality”, in which it became known formally as “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs”.

Maslow’s motivation theory was that we are motivated by a series of needs, which can be segmented into the following categories.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Layer 1: Physiological Needs

These are the literal requirements for survival. The basest and most fundamental of needs, without which, the body itself begins to fail to function.

These consist of things like breathing, food, water, sleep, homeostasis, and excretion.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Layer 2: Safety Needs

If these needs are unmet, they tend to be the primary motivations for our behavior. We have a strong desire to feel security, balance, and equilibrium in our environment, often as measured by things like security of body, of employment, of resources, or morality, of family, of health, and of property.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Layer 3: Love and Belonging

For the first time the needs extend beyond the individual to encompass their social network. We have a strong urge to be connected, to belong, to socialize, and to feel wanted and loved. These needs consist primarily of friendship, intimacy, and love.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Layer 4: Esteem

Stemming from our need to associate with others, rises the need to feel accepted, appreciated, and respected. If we get this kind of feedback, it fulfills our need for a positive self-esteem, develops confidence, and respect of self.

We want to feel valued, self valued and valued by others. If we don’t, we tend to develop an inferiority complex, we doubt ourselves, lose faith and confidence, which can have a dramatically negative effect on our ability to accomplish things that are meaningful.

Maslow actually separated esteem needs into two sub-groups. The first, lower consisted of the need for attention, recognition, status, fame, and prestige. The higher sub-group is the need for self-respect, strength, competence, mastery, self-confidence, independence, and freedom.

He distinguishes between these two sub-groups, because often individuals may end up receiving attention, recognition, prestige, etc., but until their internal view of themselves changes, the higher-subset of needs remains unchanged and unmet.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, Layer 5: Self-Actualization

Self-Actualization refers to the ability of a person to reach their full potential. Interestingly, your vision of your potential changes as you move through this level. The more you do, the more you reinforce your appreciation of your capabilities, leading you to reach ever higher, setting larger and larger goals, and accomplishing more and more. This state of being is where the highest levels of fulfillment and individual happiness are achieved.

While there are some critics of this model, it seems to have largely withstood the test of time. Much of the criticism is focused around Maslow’s suggested hierarchy, with others claiming that these needs exist and operate independently of each other, rather than being associated hierarchically as suggested.

Regardless, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs provides an interest foundation and intellectual framework we can use to discuss development, not only of the individual, but of teams, families, and whole companies as well.

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“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain

UnCollege is a social movement changing the notion that going to college is the only path to success.

Are you a swashbuckler, autodidact, creator, entrepreneur, sojourner, or polymath? You should join the UnCollege movement!

Fifty percent of the world’s population is under thirty: you must differentiate yourself to succeed. With 70.1% of high school graduates going to college, a college degree no longer guarantees success.

College shouldn’t be the only path to success — you can create your education by leveraging the resources of the world around you.

Why should you join the UnCollege movement?

• College lacks academic rigor.
• 22% of college grads under 25 are working jobs that do not require a degree
• A college degree ≠ success.
• Creativity is the No. 1 “leadership competency.”
• Self-directed learners outperform traditional students (86th percentile to 50th).

You should join the UnCollege movement if you

• Hope to hack your education;
• Will be enrolling in college;
• Want to complement your college experience;
• Are past your college years but want to give higher education a second chance;
• Want to be an educational deviant.

UnCollege is founded on three principles:

1. Introspection is essential. It is vitally important that you know yourself before you pursue higher education.

2. Passionate action outweighs school. Real-world success proves more than homework.

3. Self-motivation is requisite for success. Taking initiative is more valuable than completing assignments.

source: uncollege.com

“Nature is my mentor. In my garden, quietly watching with a childlike sense of fantasy, has helped to instill in me a sense of balance and a constant search for perfection, proportion, harmony.” Capucci

Why be normal?

Where cool girls aim for either cuteness or sophistication in their personal style, nerd girls aim for silliness. Cool girls play soccer or basketball; nerd girls play badminton. Cool girls read fashion magazines; nerd girls read novels. Cool girls wear tight T-shirts, and either very tight or very baggy jeans; nerd girls wear shirts and jeans that are neither tight nor extremely baggy. Cool girls wear pastels or dark tones; nerd girls wear bright primary colors. But these practices are specific to individuals; they are engaged in by particular nerd girls, not all of them.

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Color of Life

Some friends gave special colors, strange colors, normal colors, harsh colors, bright colors, warm colors, ... Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly collecting them in the album called life.

The Meaning Of The Natural World?

The definition of the natural world is, everything that exists on the earth, and in our universe, that is not manufactured or man made. This includes plant life, animal and insect life, soil, rock sand deserts. The mountain ranges and all the different habitats that exist on the earth, and the universe.The seas and the life in them, including all the processes carried out by each species each day to survive and produce the next generation and continue their line.Naturalists, ecologists, marine biologists and others, study these phenomena, daily ,weekly and yearly, to tell us how the environment is evolving, and which species are under threat and should be protected.