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Does your life spark joy? #sparkjoy #mariekondo #

Does your life spark joy?

#sparkjoy #mariekondo #stainedglass

Light at the end of the tunnel. How do you keep go

Light at the end of the tunnel. How do you keep going even in the face of tremendous struggle?

#secretsdeparis
#bestfromparis
#parisonline
#historyofparis
#endofthetunnel
#louvre
#struggle
#hope

One of the best park in Paris. #butteschaumont #p

One of the best park in Paris.

#butteschaumont #paris #secretsdeparis #bestfromparis #parisonline

Reach for the top of the Eiffel Tower. What are yo

Reach for the top of the Eiffel Tower. What are your goals for next month?

#goals #toureiffel #butteschaumont #eiffeltower #goals #consistency

Neptune offering gifts to Venice by Giovanni Batti

Neptune offering gifts to Venice by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. What do you like about this painting?

#venice #neptune #tiepolo #grandpalais #grandpalaisparis

What do you prefer about the Renaissance? #grandp

What do you prefer about the Renaissance?
#grandpalais #venice #renaissance

The trickster archetype is the immature form of th

The trickster archetype is the immature form of the hero's archetype. The hero is disciplined and stoic while the trickster is volatile.

#castle #chateauroyalamboise #chateaufrance #chateau #trickster #tricksterarchetype #heroarchetype #archetype #disciplineequalsfreedom #stoicism

I tried a different editing approach. What do you

I tried a different editing approach. What do you think?
#castle #chateauroyalamboise #chateaufrance #chateau #paintingphotography #photographypainting #paintingphoto

How do you think France can sustain it long term?

How do you think France can sustain it long term?

#ladefense #paris #riot #longterm #vision #france #strategy

"Random quote" - Random Guy #castle #chateauroyal

"Random quote" - Random Guy

#castle #chateauroyalamboise #chateaufrance #chateau #randomguy #randomquote

LEONARDO AND CREATIVITY Creativity is a high-risk

LEONARDO AND CREATIVITY

Creativity is a high-risk high-return strategy. Leonardo da Vinci sure had a lot of creativity. You can see his creation, most of them don’t work or are useless. Still, among these, some are useful.

It seems like he was not business oriented. More toward, creating and innovating. Apparently, he was not following on a lot of his contracts.
He may have been out of his time (technology was not advanced enough for his ideas) but that is a great lesson. To make it work it does not have to be totally outside of what human being can grasp, it has to be near what they can comprehend and use at the time. Or at least make the innovation simple enough so that anyone can use it.

I understood creativity way better when I heard Jordan Peterson talk about it. I understood how much risk it is because a lot of ideas won’t be good or excellent so it needs a lot of idea production, and even afterward, the creative person needs to have people around to help him implement ideas into innovation so that people have a chance to use it.
But even at the stage of implemented innovation, it requires a market to be ready and willing to use the product, it needs nice marketing…etc
If the idea survives this process then it will be mostly successful. But there is a lot of investment to do. It requires to be strategic with creativity.

#leonardodavinci #creativity #investment #heroic #closluce #jordanpeterson #strategy #creating

[NEW PART OF THE NOVEL OUT] Here is the synopsis:

[NEW PART OF THE NOVEL OUT]
Here is the synopsis: 2038. Liam lost hope in a fallen world. Thanks to virtual/augmented reality contact lenses, he'll live an adventure that has the potential to restore his faith in humanity.
Here is an extract of this new part titled Excited and Confused: “Times in Paris were not suitable for such goofing around. They were putting responsibilities on hold. They were strangers to each other but they shared the same reality angst and it was a relief to escape it together. This opportunity was too good not to be seized." Come and see what this new part has to offer, read another part of Liam's adventures: http://kennyalami.com/writing/
#writingislife #writingnovels #writingfiction #writersofinstagram #fictionwriter #writerlife #writergram #writingislove #creativewriter #writingcommunity #amwriting #creativewriting #writerslife

YOU NEVER PLAN ENOUGH Plans are super important.

YOU NEVER PLAN ENOUGH

Plans are super important. Make this neo-cortex work, that is what basically makes us human.

Without any plans and without any agency to go after it, people are just animals. Only responsive to their environment or inner feelings, without any sovereignty over what they can control. Even the things they can control, they do not control.

Stoicism has a big point: you don’t freak out about what you cannot control (still you can get prepared and that is under your control).
You make the best to develop your agency until you have the capacity to control what you can control and do it (sovereignty). When it is done, you go expand your agency: control what we previously could not (transcendence), what we thought uncontrollable about our lives.

That requires planning. At least a day. Then the week, then the month, then the year, then the next 5 years until you can do your life.
Sure getting ahead 5 years of planning is extreme for most people because you have to do some research and get knowledgeable on more subjects.
But you can at least have a direction of where you want to go and then, put some details in there.
By implementing even the least amount of planning, you will get better at planning, at implementing your plans. You need this confrontation between your plans and reality, get over it, make the plans better and more realistic, and go at it again. You build on that until you are capable of planning multiple years with mastery.

The basic knowledge required for planning is history. So you can learn from the mistakes of others and not repeat them again, you can also learn what works and what does not.

#closluce #planning #planwithme #plannergeek #plannernerd #plannernerds #history #westernhistory #history #transcendence #control #stoicism

[NOVEL][THE FALL OF PARIS] Here is the synopsis:

[NOVEL][THE FALL OF PARIS]
Here is the synopsis: 2038. Liam lost hope in a fallen world. Thanks to virtual/augmented reality contact lenses, he'll live an adventure that has the potential to restore his faith in humanity.
Here is an extract of the third part titled A Peculiar Dream: “It was just a dream, and he was trying to make it real. “This makes no sense at all.” He never went to this restaurant. He never experienced such a dream. But he had nothing more to do, and it could provide a slight inspirational vibe to his life. It was unusual, and he was looking for this type of experiences. So here he was excited, anxious, uncomfortable, but up to meet his destiny." Come and see what this peculiar dream is all about, read the third part of his adventures: http://kennyalami.com/writing/
#writingislife #writingnovels #writingfiction #writersofinstagram #fictionwriter #writerlife #writergram #writingislove #creativewriter #writingcommunity #amwriting #creativewriting #writerslife #pompidoucenter #centerpompidou #centrepompidou

EDITING PHOTOS I didn’t realize how fun it is t

EDITING PHOTOS

I didn’t realize how fun it is to edit photos.
I knew it is not difficult. In secondary school, I did an internship in a company printing big advertising poster for all kinds of products. I had a small experience of editing pictures: how to erase imperfections on faces or even modify an imperfect picture before printing it.

I’m not proficient in photo editing. But, with a bit of training, you can modify photos and make people believe anything.
It’s okay to modify reality for the sake of art, but when it is in the realm of news sharing, this is plainly immoral.
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#parisjetaime
#igersparis
#topparisphoto
#parismonamour
#parismaville
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#igersfrance
#pariscartepostale
#pariscityvision
#parigi
#parisphoto
#visitparis
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#editing
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#adobe
#bestfromparis
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#pontalexandre3

[NOVEL][THE FALL OF PARIS] Here is the synopsis: 2

[NOVEL][THE FALL OF PARIS]
Here is the synopsis: 2038. Liam lost hope in a fallen world. Thanks to virtual/augmented reality contact lenses, he'll live an adventure that has the potential to restore his faith in humanity.

Here is an extract: "He tried to make something out of this chaos. He wanted to reach this zone again. But he couldn’t get the conversation with his parents out of his mind. He kept thinking about it and being anxious about it. He craved relaxation and it seemed like it was not going to happen. He was hopeless.” Come and see what the white room has to offer, read the second part of his adventures: http://kennyalami.com/writing/
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#writing
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#topparisphoto

OH GOD. HUMANS… This chimpanzee puts his hand o

OH GOD. HUMANS…

This chimpanzee puts his hand on his forehead in despair. He seems to feel apathy while looking at humanity.

Reason and emotions can get out of hand. We talk about emotions here, and we’ll talk about reason soon.

Emotional hygiene is crucial to have a stable life. Negative emotions can be misleading, but, as positive emotions. One can be overly enthusiastic and take the worst decision of his life.
Some people are feeling positive emotions so rarely when you criticize the foundations of the feeling, they try to take you down (the threat). Emotions need to be under control. People don’t have to bear cost dealing with one’s emotions.
If somebody lived a trauma or has poor emotional hygiene then a person imposes the costs of her emotions on others by expressing this kind of parasitic emotions.
It should be dealt with privately, with a therapist, close friends or family. There are more or less three cases if one asks others help to deal with this kind of emotions:

1/ the other person has the skills, the time, the energy and is voluntary to do the work.
2/ the other person has the skills, and either doesn’t have the time or don’t want to do it.
3/ the other person has nor the skills nor the time to deal with it.

People are paid to do so, for a reason: it requires skills and investment to unpack loaded emotions.
In any way, a person can impose her loaded emotions by surprisingly throwing it at somebody.
When I was doing a vipassana retreat (silent meditation for 10 days), the guru Goenka was telling people to dissolve their ego (thoughts and emotions), which is a poor wording for the phenomena they are trying to describe.
On one hand, you don’t want to feel unrelated emotions caused by trauma, nor to feel emotions that will cloud a reasonable and safe decision making.
On the other hand, we can use emotions and reason (through training) to maximize a stable qualitative long-term existence.

#vipassana #vipassanameditation #emotions #parisjetaime #igersparis #topparisphoto #parismonamour #bestfromparis #timeoutparis #parisonline #parismaville #loves_paris #secretsdeparis #writingislife #seemyparis

[ANNOUNCEMENT][NOVEL] Starting from now, I'll shar

[ANNOUNCEMENT][NOVEL] Starting from now, I'll share every week a few thousands words of the novel I'm writing.
Here is the synopsis: 2038, Liam lost hope in a fallen world. Thanks to virtual/augmented reality contact lenses, he'll live an adventure that has the potential to restore his faith in humanity.

Here is an extract: "Lucy asked: “Have you seen the latest news about refugees?” Jo and Liam nodded no. “Well, over a million climatic refugees from Greece, Turkey, and the Middle East are coming here, in Paris. Can you believe it? They have no drinkable water. Their crops are disastrous. In addition to being climatic refugees, they are also fleeing war. On top of all that, France doesn’t want to take them.” “Don’t you think France has other problems to deal with after the Horrendous?” said Jo. “The Horrendous. The Horrendous! Jo! You can’t always use the Horrendous for the rampant nationalism in every western country. Come on.”" Pass the door of Liam’s life and read the first part of his adventures: http://kennyalami.com/writing/

Stay tuned for more!

#writingislife #herostory #novel #novels #fallenworld

HEROIC STORIES PASSED THE TEST OF TIME. Last week

HEROIC STORIES PASSED THE TEST OF TIME.

Last week I talked about ideas that passed the test of time. One of these idea is heroic stories. We have been telling heroic stories for millennia.
Stories are great because we can share knowledge through it. It is not as precise as statements. But it can be sufficient to pass down morality. It is easier to read stories and extract how to behave than to do so with philosophy. The investment is minor for the consumer of the story compared to philosophy.
Heroic stories allow the sharing of successful behaviours across thousands of generations. After hearing these stories we have a frame to emulate from. We go out in the world and act on the heroic deeds we heard.
Stories can depict strong morality or it can be propaganda. We can make a hierarchy of stories. In the end it goes down to making a hierarchy of morality. Which morality is the best (provides success for the longest and the more people)? #palaisroyal #herostory #philosophy #parisjetaime #igersparis #topparisphoto #parismonamour #bestfromparis #timeoutparis #parisonline #parismaville #loves_paris #secretsdeparis #writingislife #seemyparis

CHURCHES, CASTLE AND MEDIOCRITY. Why would you wa

CHURCHES, CASTLE AND MEDIOCRITY.

Why would you want to live in a church or a castle? They are so expensive to renovate, to insulate, to tidy, to heat… Such a romantic idea!
These projects used to be implemented on centuries. It was impressive to have projects last that long. I am impressed indeed.
Today we need the same long term vision. We need projects that expand on centuries.
But we can build buildings higher and faster, we don’t need that much to create enormous magnificent buildings.
Fostering the realm of truth seeking and enhancing sovereignty is a grandiose project. We need to raise the standards of what we do. We should be more demanding with ourselves and others. We ought to be more demanding.

We should be disgusted by mediocrity. (FYI whenever I catch myself being mediocre, I literally want to vomit on me.)(Please laugh.) #basiliquesaintdenis #grandiose #mediocrity #parisjetaime #igersparis #topparisphoto #parismonamour #bestfromparis #timeoutparis #parisonline #parismaville #loves_paris #westernhistory #secretsdeparis #writingislife

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