(This mail had a "share on Facebook" ending, so I guess I don't do anything wrong by quoting.)
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As I rolled into 2015, finally letting go of some resolutions (zero inbox fantasy), keeping some (more daydreaming, doing one new thing that terrifies me), and creating new ones (mastering the ukelele with my kids), I thought about how all these resolutions come down to...character development.
Last year, my film team and I focused on the subject of character and the neuroscience behind how we can shape who we are and who we want to be in the world. We held our first ever Character Day with millions of people around the world in schools, organizations, and online, and launched our 8 min film The Science of Character as a free global premiere accompanied by educational resources. The amazing response from people wanting to have this discussion inspired us to do it again. So...we are happy to announce....
CHARACTER DAY 2015 | FRIDAY SEPT. 18
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JOIN CHARACTER DAY and LEARN MORE
To a deep thinking about who we are,
Tiffany and the Let it Ripple team
Hi Tiffany,
so you focus on "deep thinking about who we are"... Can U Touch This? ;-)
Coping with infinity
Best wishes for 2015!
Lorand Kedves
Tiffany Shlain, jan. 14.
;)
Dear Tiffany,
I have spent some time with your works (this is why I created the Hungarian subtitles to some of them). You are open, honest and brave person, and I respect that.
However, I think you miss a very important point: that your top questions (and to those you have not asked yet), can be answered already, and perhaps you have seen or read most of them. I have explained in this short text that "knowing about" an answer, and understanding it (integrating it to your perception, the filtering and patternization before reasoning), are two very different things, and I would recommend to improve your focus on that...
If you did not have all this in mind when answered with a ;), I think you can't touch it. Yet. ;-)
Best wishes
Lorand
Bonus: sample of your unasked questions:
- It is currently admitted, that around 300 tons of contaminated water is leaking into the Pacific ocean at Fukushima every single day, and there is no idea how to stop it in the next decades.
- Is that far enough? You have quite nice chance to have the next Fukushima in the States considering the aging reactors, the financial conditions and the awareness of the regulatory organizations.
Do you have this kind of information integrated to your image of the future? The efficiency of character development for a child having thyroid cancer? If for some reason that is your grandchild?
Now dream on and wink... or hit me... if you can.
Lorand
Tiffany Shlain, jan 26.
thank you for your emails. You should go out and make a film on this subject:)
Sorry, Tiffany, that's your job. You are a charming person who can sell her ideas and make really nice and motivating films. And well, there are many films about these subjects, but nobody wants to see them. You don't want to see them. They are less motivating than fairy tales.
I have spent too much time on understanding the fundamental elements of thinking, and finally got to the questions of human civilization. I have got too far, I am rather tired and disappointed, and it is very hard to keep the faith if you see too much. However, I still try to communicate, however unidirectional it is. I try to make you go further from just scratching the surface of a question - you shake me off like a bug. I read Mario Vargas Llosa: "Civilization of the Spectacle" (recommend it to you) and know why we go this way - but have no chance to show my answers. Even if I paint it on a wall, nobody will get it.
Somehow I felt that we can have some cooperation on the topics that are important to both of us, where I am the typical mad scientist and you are the one who has patience and openness to accept that even if you can hear the words, you don't understand what I say now but can improve.
Not the first, and hopefully not the last failure of mine. I hope unsubscribing myself now from your newsletter will save you from my stuff. Sorry for disturbing you.