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Be Careful About Simple Dualistic View – What "The Brothers Karamazov" Tells Us

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Have you read The Brothers Karamazov ? The Brothers Karamazov is a famous masterpiece by Dostoevsky. I've read it, and it taught me a lot. It's thought-provoking in many ways, especially for today's complex world. Note: I've tried to be as spoiler-free as possible, but if you'd like to read that book from now on entirely spoiler-free, please be careful. Photo by Yunus Gogce on Unsplash What is The Brothers Karamazov about? The Brothers Karamazov is a literary work about God and humans. The story goes with a snobbish, philandering, and insane Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons, Dmitri, Ivan, and Alexei. As Fyodor and Dmitri fight over a woman, an incident occurs. The readers can see each character's anguish over the incident. Isn't it difficult to read The Brothers Karamazov ? You may think so. Don't worry; probably it's not as difficult as you think. I'll tell you why. The Brothers Karam...
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How To Have Your Own Views – What "The Brothers Karamazov" Tells Us About It

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Information is everywhere today. You can search for anything on Google. You can find tremendous thoughts expressed via Facebook or Twitter. In such a world, it's important to think with your head and have your view . The problem is that you sometimes accept someone else's view without deep thought. In that case, "your view " may not be yours . The Brothers Karamazov , a famous literary work by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, gives us hints of how to have our own view . Photo by Elisa Calvet B. on Unsplash Before starting What is a view ? When is a view yours? First, I would like to clarify what I mean to say by the phrase view. A view is what a person thinks based on what the person experienced in their life and the knowledge they have. If you have a view and you can explain why you can say that in your words, the view is your view . On the other hand, "your view " is not yours if you can't explain why....
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Is "Your View" Really Yours? Don't Mistake Someone Else's For Yours

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Having our own view becomes increasingly essential in a world where we can get information without effort. I've written a post about the importance of having our own view . You may say, "I already have my view . For example, I believe reading books is essential for us. As for learning, we should keep learning. I understand those because I've learned a lot of things," for example. But wait. There's one thing to be aware of; you should be careful of "your view " because it might be someone else's.  You should be more careful, especially if you're a keen learner. Photo by Calvin Hanson on Unsplash What I mean by the word " view " in this post First, I want to clarify what I mean by the phrase view . In this post, our view is what you think after examining your knowledge and experiencing things in your life...
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Do You Have Your Own View? – Importance of Your View

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Life is a process of learning. We keep learning to live better. We've learned many things, and we'll learn more. As for learning, we should keep one thing in mind; your goal of learning is to have your ideas instead of getting satisfied with someone else's. Photo by Pascal Habermann on Unsplash What is your view ? What I want to say by the phrase y our view is what you think after examining your knowledge and experiencing things in your life. Views are subjective opinions. For example, "I should sleep more for my health" is a view. There's another concept: fact . Facts are things that are known to be true. Facts are objective. For example, "Lack of sleep harms your health" is a fact. Why do you need your view ? There are two reasons why you need your view . One is that only you can come up with your view , ...
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The Essential Things The Film "In Time" Reminds Us About Time

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In Time is one of the life-changing films to me. It's a 2011 science fiction movie. Will Salas, the protagonist, lives in a world where people stop aging at age 25. Time is currency, so people earn and spend it. As long as they have time, they can live. The limited super-rich can live almost forever with health, whereas the rest have no choice but live from day to day literally. In Time is thought-provoking from two perspectives: social structure resources of time and money We'll look into the film from the resource perspective in this post. Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash Time is a resource, as is money Time is a resource. You're probably not pressed for time if you don't have that sense. Neither did I. I'd forgotten time is a resource until I saw In Time . In one scene, Will's mother can't afford to get a bus back home. The fare went up to 2 hours, and she has only 1.5 hours. Unfortunately, it's 2 hour...
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The Things That Made Me Quit Mobile Game

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I once struggled to get a mobile game away from myself. I tried several things to stop playing the mobile game and eventually made it somehow. I had tried and managed to spend less time on my smartphone before, but quitting a mobile game was a different kind of challenge. (If you're interested, see this post about how I reduced my smartphone time .) In this post, I will tell you what kind of attempts I made and what really made me quit the mobile game. Photo by   SCREEN POST   on   Unsplash How I got indulged in the mobile game I used to be addicted to a mobile game. I rarely played mobile games, but one day I felt like playing a kart-racing mobile game somehow. I tried that game, and it was fascinating. Since then, I used to play it for an hour or more almost every day. But a month or more after I started the game, I gradually felt less excited than before and became frustrated. I began to long to get that mobile game away from me, but ...
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What I Tried To Spend Less Time On Smartphone

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You use your smartphone for long hours every day. Sometimes, you use them effectively to solve daily issues efficiently. But in other cases, you may use them as a mere way of distraction. Come to think of me, I struggled to spend fewer hours on my smartphone. I wanted to spend less time being distracted by my smartphone. I did several things to save my precious time from my smartphone. Now I spend less time on my smartphone than I used to. In this post, I'll share which worked and which didn't. Photo by Gilles Lambert on Unsplash What worked #1: Remove apps from my Home screen This is one of the easiest ways that works. You won't get distracted if you don't see any stimulating things. Whenever you unlock the smartphone, colorful icons come into view, which is attractive enough to make me forget why you unlock the smart...
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What processes do we need in learning? Input, output, and feedback. We can't skip the input process because we won't gain knowledge without it. Yet I'd like to highlight the others: output and feedback. We should put a higher weight on the output process to get feedback. I learned from Sion Kabasawa's book about the importance of the output process and my experience. I'll tell you the importance of output and feedback in this post. Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash Why isn't input alone enough? I was overweight with inputted information. Before reading Kabasawa's book, I regarded learning as the input process. Last year, I read 100 books and watched 70 films. I leave some notes about books I read and movies I watched. Looking back on these notes reminds me of what I've read or watched. I was satisfied with the number of books...
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The Essential Things The Film "In Time" Reminds Us About Time

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Five Impressive Discoveries From "Insta-Brain"

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How many hours a day do we spend using our smartphones? According to Insta-Brain  (original Swedish title: Skärmhjärnan ), four hours for adults and four to five hours for teenagers. Very long, isn't it? Immediately after starting to read this book, I was surprised at how long we spend on our smartphones. And from there, I finished the book as if drawn into it. Insta-Brain gave me many insights into how our brains influence our behaviors.  In this post, I wish to tell you five of the most impressive discoveries from the book. Photo by William Hook on Unsplash Our brains have changed little since ancient times. This is the consistent message of the book. Given the history of our species since its emergence 200,000 years ago, smartphones, the Internet, and social networking have only recently become commonplace, or rat...
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