Pedro Assunção » psychology

Venting, or how humans no longer respect each other

Pedro Assunção — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:29:19 +0000

Is it me or people are respecting each other less and less every day? You see it all the time: someone trying to get in line in front of you – at the supermarket, people yelling at their kids in the middle of the street (and the kids yelling back at their parents), you name it. I’m not even trying to take me out of it; how many times have i felt compelled – while driving my car – to accelerate a bit more not to let another driver get into a roundabout in front of me, or something like that? But i digress into specifics. Heck, this post was started because i was trying to sleep and my neighbors’ kids are having a party at midnight on a Wednesday, when people usually work the next day. And even though my Buddhist part tries its best to compensate it’s always hard.

I often wonder what will happen to us, people, if we continue down this path of disrespectfulness towards each other. What kind of future can we expect, when we treat each other with such poor manners? Shouldn’t we think about these things more often and try to improve ourselves?

Everything is new all the time

Pedro Assunção — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:18:55 +0000

It’s funny how the greatest revelations come to us in thee strangest places. I’m having dinner in a shopping mall and all of a sudden, while thinking about why humans get bored, it strikes me that we are the ones who make everything boring. It’s our brains, all the time!

Consider this: how many times have you closely looked at something as trivial as a chair? Look again at that same chair. And again, and again. How many screws does it have? How is the place where you sit your butt? Is it curvy, flat? What’s the color off the chair? How much does out weigh?

Do you catch my point? You can walk the same path a thousand times and you will always, and I mean always, be able to see something new. The problem is that our brains trick us not to.

And this is probably valid for social relationships. There is always something new to talk about. You just need to train your brain to think outside the box

Derren Brown gets money from losing tickets at dog tracks

Pedro Assunção — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0000

This is absolutely amazing. I can imagine that it will not work with every single person, but even if it works with only half a con artist can make a lot of money with these techniques:

Checkout this and more videos of Derren Brown in action here.