As Plato expects, we feel deep sadness at the absence of any chance to understand anything, to achieve anything of value, or to experience anything of beauty.

A passion for knowledge

Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.

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Philosophy

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Religion & Spirituality

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History

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Learning & Education

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Science & Nature

Plato’s Cave and the Stubborn Persistence of Ignorance

SONHOS

Corre o fim da primavera e o início do verão de 1905. Em Berna, cidade suíça, pacata e sistemática como um relógio, vive um jovem de 26 anos chamado Albert Einstein. No Escritório Suíço de Patentes vem tendo sonhos, todos eles ligados aos mistérios do tempo e do espaço, num deles, por exemplo, o tempo transcorre - nascimento, vida e morte. Noutro, não existe futuro, a vida reduzindo-se à fixidez das estátuas. Em outra, o tempo ganha três dimensões, como o espaço as pessoas vivam três versões diferentes de suas vidas. E há também o sonho e efeito ligam-se de maneira imprevisível.

Ideias Sobre O Tempo

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence. “A magical, metaphysical realm ... Captivating, enchanting, delightful.” —The New York Times Einstein’s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, about time, relativity and physics. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar. Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein’s Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.

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Alan Lightman

Einstein's Dreams

At any moment, man must decide, for better or for worse, what will be the monumento of his existence.

We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. When Man's Search for Meaning was first published in 1959, it was hailed by Carl Rogers as "one of the outstanding contributions to psychological thought in the last fifty years." Now, more than forty years and 4 million copies later, this tribute to hope in the face of unimaginable loss has emerged as a true classic. Man's Search for Meaning--at once a memoir, a self-help book, and a psychology manual-is the story of psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's struggle for survival during his three years in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Yet rather than "a tale concerned with the great horrors," Frankl focuses in on the "hard fight for existence" waged by "the great army of unknown and unrecorded." Viktor Frankl's training as a psychiatrist allowed him a remarkable perspective on the psychology of survival. In these inspired pages, he asserts that the "the will to meaning" is the basic motivation for human life. This simple and yet profound statement became the basis of his psychological theory, logotherapy, and forever changed the way we understand our humanity in the face of suffering. As Nietzsche put it, "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Frankl's seminal work offers us all an avenue to greater meaning and purpose in our own lives-a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the act of living.

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Personal Development

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Motivation & Inspiration

A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that he and other inmates coped with the experience of being in Auschwitz. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest - and who offered proof that everything can be taken away from us except the ability to choose our attitude in any given set of circumstances. The sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision and not of camp influences alone. Only those who allowed their inner hold on their moral and spiritual selves to subside eventually fell victim to the camp's degenerating influence - while those who made a victory of those experiences turned them into an inner triumph. Frankl came to believe that man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.

Viktor Emil Frankl M.D., Ph.D., was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Frankl was the founder of logotherapy, which is a form of Existential Analysis, the "Third Viennese School" of psychotherapy.His book Man's Search for Meaning (first published under a different title in 1959: From Death-Camp to Existentialism. Originally published in 1946 as Ein Psycholog erlebt das Konzentrationslager) chronicles his experiences as a concentration camp inmate and describes his psychotherapeutic method of finding meaning in all forms of existence, even the most sordid ones, and thus a reason to continue living. He was one of the key figures in existential therapy.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

Se você vive e morre por uma lista ou vendeu sua alma para uma Agenda, as dicas e truques de Laura Vanderkam podem ser aplicados em todos os meios organizacionais. Entenda qual plano serve para você.«Todo mundo gosta de algo diferente, então é difícil dizer o que faz um bom plano. Se você odeia, pode mudar – você só precisará recopiar as coisas que já colocou».Agende grandes momentos a cada 30 diasDedique a tarde de sexta-feira à semana que vem«Em geral, porém, você deve colocar datas assim que as conhece. Caso contrário, você vai esquecer».<a href="https://www.domino.com/content/how-to-plan-your-week/">Planeje sua semana</a>

Veja como uma especialista em produtividade planeja sua semana.

We recently caught up with productivity expert Laura Vanderkam to snag her tips for a better planner. From how to plan out your week to the types of tasks that belong on your calendar, you'll want to devour this organizational advice.

Plato’s Cave and the Stubborn Persistence of Ignorance

Einstein's Dreams

Man's Search for Meaning

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