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nature

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all that Jiddu Krishnamurti said

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sculpting, singing, windsurfing

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Well it is helping to the ideas that drives my translating. I hope there is a way to see how a talk is suddenly locally popular after being translated even if it was published years ago. Hope there is a way how to highlight a new translation popping up to the non-English audience. (Is there any or are we all bored polyglots who follow the TED?) Being new to all this I first translated the talk by Tim Harford about the God complex without a help of the dotsub.com and then discovered the phonetic transcription must be done first. It was some 4 weeks and 2 translations later when the transcription arrived yet I was slow to claim it and God complex was snatched by a young guy who even went to see me in Dublin. (Not to apologize but to get a socket adapter for his laptop:) Can a talk change anything?

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  A comment on Talk: ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!

  May 20 2013: "Using 200 characters, one will be able to comprehend 40 % of the 'basic' literature." is, I presume, a LIE since there is not such a thing as 'basic' literature, is there? Yet, hopefully, she tried to quote a known research. Would anyone know what research?
  Note: Simple mathematics would not work here: say if I know 40% of words in a set of simple text samples (sentences) in a foreign language I think my average correct comprehension of them would be well below 10% [very different to guessing the meaning of an English sentence with 60% words blanked-erased] Perhaps the definition of basic literature would be: the one where our 200 characters form 85% of all characters ;)
  Thanks Jason for the reply... only the last thing about demonstration that all words can be reduced to 200 radicals is, in terms of understanding of the meaning, ridiculous.

• A comment on Talk: Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

  May 16 2013: what was i thinking what was i doing..
  resources are shrinking, the Earth is overflowing

• A reply on Talk: Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit

  May 10 2013: Believe system helps to persevere yet hardly is the cause of the grit complex. What about realizing that all is relative and nothing sticks out so it won't help changing or succumbing to curiosity of trying out the new?... you also persevere...
  Or some innate numbness when the pain comes relatively later ... you persevere longer
  Or ability to withdraw temptations from a focus which is somewhat parallel to tendency to live in clouds, work for the sweetness of promises...
  Also e.g. when your body gets used to fasting for whatever reason I reckon you train 'grit'

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think is the future of learning?

  Mar 14 2013: Also the future will delve into the methods in a way as what Krishnamurti had said: To know HOW to think requires a great deal of penetration, understanding, but to know WHAT to think is comparatively easy. Our present education consists in telling us WHAT to think, it does not teach us HOW to think, how to penetrate, explore; and it is only when the teacher as well as the student knows how to think that the school is worthy of its name.
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  A comment on Talk: Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

  Mar 11 2013: nice points yet very much same info as in his previous speech, he might have pointed out what the new upgrade was...

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think is the future of learning?

  Mar 11 2013: I reckon , after a year of transcendental contemplation on the learning and its future, it will be mimicking stimulation via mastery simulation. Mastery in this context is a remarkably well applied knowledge ( in some subject). In short, why some learn well and some not ? Like father like son: Nature? No, nurture i.e. nature of mimicking is in the core of nurturing. So how to distill the master's mindset? If you can get in the master's shoes you learn about the base-foundation they built their mastery on. This may take time yet further learning will go fairly easier and quicker. It is not all based on ambition and comparing. There are magic ingredients that defy words. Things start to fit and make sense. You follow not just words but thanks to these 'monkey' neurons you build the memory and thinking patterns as well as muscle patterns e.g. speech, abdominal, posture and breathing patterns that are important for foreign pronunciation. It is biomechanics and mindmechanics. Tagging the patterns and creating models (robots?) that are followable, then pointing out to the ways on how to use-follow the example is the first step to this future.

• A reply on Talk: Karen Tse: How to stop torture

  Mar 8 2013: It was to illustrate what brings about a change. She mentioned the communist youth as an example. Since it was possible and it probably worked, China (the party) can be seen as less totalitarian and opressive than its usual (educated western) image is.

• A comment on Talk: Karen Tse: How to stop torture

  Mar 8 2013: Thank you Karen. I see the torture primarily rather as an expression of evil. The using it as a datamining tool feels to be secondary. Hard to say for system where its usage is being systematic, yet still I see the evil intention or sadism as the primal cause here, since it established the system. There more power to youth or rotation-of-posts (jobs) principle is the hope that would bring about a change. Same for the women in Afganistan...the Islam is being abused by evil to justify violence...
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  A comment on Talk: Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don't leave

  Jan 29 2013: I am puzzled by the 'steps', the first step being something and then gun etc.
  How come she knows her ex husband was a planning beast finding a victim. He turned out to be a beast but was it a conscious plan?
  
  to Piotr > I am totally sorry for having mentioned GUNs. I know this word bears some emotional value but definitely less then say CLITORIS. I do NOT want to discuss guns (or clitoris) at all! To me the talk looked like a presentation of a simplistic idea that there are 'usually' the steps like: 1st= comfort 2nd= isolation etc.
  She said she learned she was an average victim. Yet....
  Is there the usual rule of the steps she mentioned? How did he managed to fit the 'steps'? Did he plan? Is there some 'abuser's instinct' or was it a mean spirit (s-father) whispering in his ears or did he (clever illusion creator) study the model abusers to get it right ?

• A comment on Talk: Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.

  Jan 23 2013: Nice talk on the lie that is behind it all...the lie that beside others teaches one a non genuine inhibitive reaction to touch proposals.