Smiling is the Second Best Medicine

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/Among English idioms I’m most fond of is laughter is the best medicine. Whether most people have thought much about it, I don’t think many would disagree. If you didn’t, what would you say is the best medicine? For the rest of you who do agree, have you ever thought what the second best medicine might be? Laughter can be quite hard to get, at times, sadly.

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Develop Your Unlearning Skills as Much as Your Learning Skills

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/What are some things you want to learn in life? How about things you need to learn? How excited are you at the prospects of either? Now, what about things you want to unlearn, whether stopping or changing to do, think, or believe? And things you need to unlearn? Were answers for things to unlearn as obvious as things to learn? Are you as excited about things to unlearn as things to learn?

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Learn Something from Everyone You Meet

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/If you were asked what you learned from a list of people you could recall to any extent, could you give an answer for each of them? It doesn’t have to be something new, good, or useful that you learned from them, necessarily, just something. Can you?

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Logic is Not Always Logical

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/If logic were always logical, then why were so many things deduced incorrectly, and still continue to be? How could people logically draw different conclusions from the same set of information, sometimes without one conclusion among them being confirmable as the correct conclusion?

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Knowledge is Power Only If It Were Used

https://digitalcitizen.ca/category/my-quotes/It’s generally accepted that knowledge is power. But is it, really? What if you knew something, but did nothing with it? Did you wield any more power than someone who did nothing because they didn’t know what you knew? What good was your power if you didn’t do anything with it? What good would superheroes be if they did nothing with their superpowers?

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