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  There are many individuals who possess certain self-defining characteristics which we try to label them with. And all too often, we mislabel them -- and almost as often, they mislabel themselves! Let's think about this and try to find out what the characteristics are which define a person. Let's stop mis-classifying (either a Lingovation or a word assembled out of convenience) our fellow Humans . After all, we are the readers and followers of The Braintenance Blog - and we are each and all compelled by a quest to become more intelligent and more knowledgeable (by the way, do you fully understand the difference between intelligent and knowledgeable?) in the interests of the mind's own desire for growth . 1 ) Many times the words "cynic" and "skeptic" are used interchangeably. Yet each describes a very different kind of person. What are the crucial differences between a cynic and a skeptic? Hint : One is an obsessive questioner, and a challenger of the...

We have a propensity to overrate ourselves as a species a great deal of the time. I just found this wonderfully demonstrative article on StumbleUpon , (fooled you?) one of my new social media and content resource groups which is loaded with wonderful material, The original url for the page is: StumbleUpon Recommendations For Douglas E Castle . But please don't go there just yet. First read one of the articles which they selected for me, and an ideal one to share with my fellow cerebrotonics and psychonauts here on The Braintenance Blog : -------------- (1) cerebrotonic - Designating a personality type characterized as intellectual, introverted, and emotionally restrained. (2) psychonaut - An explorer of one's own mind. A psychonaut often embarks on inner voyages with the aid of psychoactive substances , meditation, sensory deprivation , binaural beats , and other means. Most commonly, one who experiments with psychedelic substances, such as psilocybin, LSD , MDMA (ecs...

Being extraordinary is a choice , according to Daniel Burris (a very extraordinary blogger) of BigThink , one of my favorite publications... "Every now and then we hear about people who are doing extraordinary things. It could be a world leader saving millions of lives, a businessperson revolutionizing an industry, or even the person down the street helping to make life much better for underserved people in the community. When we hear of these extraordinary people, the vast majority of people think, “I could never do that because I’m just an average, ordinary person.” In reality, we can all be extraordinary. The key is to realize that being extraordinary is a personal choice. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re rich or financially struggling, whether you’re male or female, whether you’re old or young, or whether you fit into any other categories. Anyone can choose to be extraordinary." If you are reading this article in The Braintenance Blog , you are already inter...