Motivation Today I’m re-visiting motivation. When I explored motivation in April, I talked about it as a force toward pleasure and away from pain. Motivation came up again when I explored need and talked about Maslow’s pyramid. Today I looked up some definitions and found that motivation is a force that imparts motion as ifContinue reading “Motivation to Wade into Cold Water”
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In Awe of Water
June’s Abstractions Here we are already starting June. As I mentioned yesterday, this month’s daily abstract nouns include a mix of new words and further study of previous words. And, as before, Sundays are homographs to guide visual poetry (vispo) from the images created through the week. Awe While defining “poetry” for my online poetryContinue reading “In Awe of Water”
A Wealth of Options
Wealth These last couple months studying abstract nouns have provided a wealth of discoveries, great quantities of new ideas, an abundance of new techniques, a profusion of thoughts, and a plentiful amount of new tools. I feel like these last two months have been a 101 course in abstractions–an overview–and now it’s time to takeContinue reading “A Wealth of Options”
Being Sensitive to Sensitivities
Sensitivity To a vision scientist like me, sensitivity is only a semi-abstract noun. If you look at the state or quality of being endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses, that’s measurable through scientific experimentation. However, the state or quality of being readily or excessively affected by external agencies or influences and having acuteContinue reading “Being Sensitive to Sensitivities”
Experience Writing 