19. Breast Cancer Awareness Month –1-31st October

This month is dedicated to increase awareness about breast cancer and encourage people to go for early detection and treatment.

Content marketing ideas:

• Listicle idea: What other diseases should one look out for if they have breast cancer?
• Infographic idea: After what age are you at highest risk of getting breast cancer?
• Video idea: How does chemotherapy affect your body?
• Podcast idea: How should you care for yourself after a mastectomy?

Brand campaign that worked:

This ad by Lux shows a newly developed product – a soap with a visible lump on it – as a way to remind women daily to check for lumps in their breasts.

Did you know…

… that today is Old Farmers Day? Today we honor our farmers of old. Farming today is largely mechanized and scientific, but these developments would not have been possible without the wisdom and hard work of old farmers. Old Farmers Day is celebrated as a throwback to sustainable farming and farming practices of the old days. Let’s tip our hat to all farmers for their contributions to our culture, values, society, and the economy. Happy Old Farmers Day!

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The self is not always selfish: Mary Midgley takes on Richard Dawkins When, exactly, did ‘survival of the fittest’ become synonymous with Machiavellian selfishness? According to the late UK philosopher Mary Midgley (1919-2018), conflating evolution with a ‘dog-eat-dog’ understanding of human nature was hardly born of Charles Darwin himself, who, in his writings, expressed how traits such as morality and communality were vital to our species’ survival. In this 2010 lecture at the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in London, Midgley explores ideas from her book The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene (2010) to discuss how frameworks of individualism have developed over the past several centuries. Ultimately, she argues, contemporary understanding of the self needs to be rescued from the culturally dominant clutches of Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene (1976), which offers a misleading and perhaps even fatalistic view of human nature.

The self is not always selfish: Mary Midgley takes on Richard Dawkins | Aeon Videos

Don’t wait for life to come knocking on your door, open the door yourself and step through.
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. (Milton Berle)
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The wise can gain more from a simple question than the simple can learn from a wise answer.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. (Bruce Lee)

Magnificent God, guardian of souls, I lost your light and stepped into darkness. Have mercy on me, my passion led me to ignore those I loved. Relieve me of my sins, heal me of these self inflicted wounds. Pass your judgment so I may delight in your presence without guilt.

Scratching An Itch You Don’t Have.
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Being The Mightiest Mouse.
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Seeing With A Blind Eye.
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You Can Stop A Clock, But Time Will Tick On.
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Making A Meal Out Of Nothing.
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Flowers wave naive
Brief regret to leave once more
Leather wraps at dusk

Never have I ever created a Youtube account.

Would you rather eat delicious food with a blind date or eat fast food with a good friend each night for an entire month?

Missing You

Describe the emotions of missing someone.

August 17th is known as Black Cat Appreciation Day.

“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.”
– Eugene O’Neill

Agreeable

You can be agreeable without agreeing.

In fact, most of the time, we’d rather spend time with people who have a different point of view but are willing to be agreeable nonetheless. It’s far better than the alternative.

courtesy: Seth Godin Newsletter

“That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not”.”
— Marcus Aurelius (Meditations)

Today’s Inspirational Quote:

“Before befriending others, you have to be your own best friend. Before correcting others, you have to correct yourself. Before making others happy, you have to make yourself happy. It is not termed as selfish but personal development. Once you balance yourself, only then you can balance the world.”

— Author Unknown

Filtering is a superpower.

The people you don’t hang around. The opportunities you don’t accept. The distractions you don’t allow. The relationships you don’t have. The news you don’t read. The content you don’t consume. The calls you don’t return. The emails you don’t answer.

Saying no turns filtering into action.

via: Brain Food Newsletter

http://nautil.us/blog/the-dark-side-of-smart

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