The Sunday Struggle #11

Are you stuck in your carsey today, with nishta to fake but to fiddle your luppers? Need some bona jogger, or a few hints at web-charper worthy subjects? Grab yourself a pogy bevvy and just varda below. I've screeved pogy tips:

1. Learn Polari, the forgotten Gay language.
Polari was developed in Britain in the 1950s as a secret code to communicate. Homosexuality was very much illegal still and it was a means to escape detection by police.

2. Compile a ransom note with the help of the Visual Dictionary

It's a collection of images of words, found in our urban environment. (Thnx Lynne for this excellent find!)

3. Watch a movie/sit-com without paying or stealing at TV Link
A huge selection of high quality films and series you can watch online for free without the need to download them to your laptop illegaly first. (Thnx Matt & Val for this tip)

4. Take time out to think about what you're thinking: The Thought Project
Photographer Simon Hoegsberg took three months to stop strangers in the street, asked them what they had been thinking about the exact moment he stopped them. He recorded their answers on a dictaphone and then took their picture. His website is a very interesting collection of their random thoughts. (Via Ine)

5. Sound familiar? The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon:
Baader-Meinhof is the phenomenon where one happens upon some obscure piece of information– often an unfamiliar word or name– and soon afterwards encounters the same subject again, often repeatedly. The reason for this is our brains' prejudice towards patterns. Our brains are fantastic pattern recognition engines, a characteristic which is highly useful for learning, but it does cause the brain to lend excessive importance to unremarkable events.
(Thnx Disco, u know I love patterns and emergence ;-)

6. Get stuck in the fallacy of logic, the wonder of incentives and some sound economic-cultural thinking at Freakonomics.

7. Break out of the box by separating your circle of concern & circle of influence:In Excellent and in hindsight obvious little strategy on where to focus your energy (Thnx Jo)

"looking at ways to influence and change our surroundings it is helpful to notice where we focus our time and energy. We each have a wide range of concerns--our health, our family, problems at work, the national debt, etc., and it is these things in our lives that make up our Circle of Concern. As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no real control and others that we can do something about. We could identify those concerns in the latter group by circumscribing them in a smaller Circle of Influence."

8. Those of u expecting a new offspring any time soon, would do well to read this article first before choosing a name ;-)

PS: Since I've started the Sunday Struggle, I've received some excellent tips from many of you, so please do keep them coming! ;-)