Blog of Craig dos Santos
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2005
I’ve been noticing a trend lately in my activities. It’s relaxation. It seems that being able to relax your body/mind is a crucial element to learning. When I am able to relax everything but the muscles needed for the activity I am performing, things always feel much better, and I am able to learn more […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 21st, 2005
I just listened to an online lecture by Barry Schwartz, who is a professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College. His talk was about how we have an overabundance of choices in this country, and how this actually makes us less happy.
There is an online transcript of a different interview of his […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 16th, 2005
I went to hear Eric Liu give a talk yesterday. He is a former speech writer for Bill Clinton, and now teaches in the Public Policy department at the University of Washington.
Yesterday, however, he was speaking on a completely different topic. Mentors.
Eric has written a book called Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2005
I was talking with a friend yesterday about my ‘fear of commitment.’ She is looking into buying a house… and meanwhile I couldn’t imagine tying myself down financially like that. One of the things I like about my life right now is that the only thing limiting me is my mentality. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2005
About a week ago I wrote “Seeing Beyond Money” about the ability to see beyond the paycheck to evaluate what I really want. I also spoke of the difference between being grateful for my good fortune, and still wanting to move on. Yesterday I had a talk with a few friends where we ended up […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 2nd, 2005
My voice coach, Emily Greenleaf, rocks. She said something yesterday that I thought was worth putting down.
“Music is a unique skill in that it requires you to speak and listen at the same time… The world needs more people who can do that.”
She’s very supportive of my decision to go travel. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 1st, 2005
I reread an article today entitled “Grow Up? Not so Fast.” by Lev Grossman in TIME magazine. It’s about “twixters” the in-betweeners of my age… In their twenty’s… not quite an adult, and not in adolescence any more.
It rang true for me in a number of ways… but in alot of ways, it […]