Dear blogosphere,
It gives me great pleasure to invite you to join the Mindapples project and tell the world, what’s your five a day?
Here’s how it works:
- Write a post telling your readers five things you do that help keep you mentally well (and answer any of the other survey questions too if you like)
- Link to the Mindapples site www.mindapples.org
- Invite five blog-friends to do the same (if you want to)
And that’s it.
Here are my five (at the moment):
- Playing the piano
- Talking with my best friends
- Emptying my inbox (yeah, right)
- Listening to podcasts in bed
- Walking in the park
And I’d like to invite Euan Semple, Stowe Boyd, JP Rangaswami, Ewan Macintosh and David Jennings to do the same.
And while we’re at it, Stephen Fry and, ooh, Richard Branson too. (Well it can’t hurt to try.)
In fact, I’ll just ask everyone I know.
David Jennings said,
28 November 2008 @ 10:32 pm
Dear Andy,
I posted my apples on a different blog than the one of mine you pointed to, so please look here instead.
Cheers, David
Andy Gibson said,
29 November 2008 @ 1:55 pm
Update:
My friend Stowe has sent me his five:
1. Play the guitar.
2. Read the New York Times.
3. Write for at least two hours.
4. Used to be Karate, but hobbled with injuries, I am moving to Tai Chi.
5. Twittering.
And my friend Sophia has blogged hers too:
1. Having my hair stroked
2. A teenage-length phone call with an old friend
3. Telling someone they are brilliant and amazing
4. Exploring new stuff – ideas, places, people
5. Reading in bed with tea, in blissful silence
Lovely!
(And thanks to her also for a very timely reminder for me to read Theodore Zeldin again.)
rhythmaning said,
1 December 2008 @ 10:56 am
I got here via Euan Semple [not tagged!] – and this is what I came up with:
try new things when I can
listen to music
go walking
think about the people I love
read… cook… eat… drink wine…
As you can see, I became indecisive!
Andy Gibson said,
1 December 2008 @ 11:51 am
Beautiful post here from JP Rangaswami sharing his five (thanks JP). His responses are fascinating, particularly the Fibonacci sheep! I’ve responded on his site too.
tamarika said,
1 December 2008 @ 7:47 pm
I did it too – heard about it through Andy Borrows on “Twitter!”
Best!
Andy Gibson said,
2 December 2008 @ 11:30 am
Thanks also to Dom Campbell and his friend Ben Matthews for sharing their five-a-day.
And to spare them from being tagged again, here are Dave Briggs and Scott Pack with their fives from the summer.
redjotter said,
6 December 2008 @ 8:22 pm
Hi Andy,
It is strangely addictive getting such a personal insight into the mind’s of others.
It is only fair I post mine…
http://redjotter.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/apples-for-the-mind/
p.s on a side note..the text on this blog is very light and sometimes a little difficult to read!
Be in touch very soon,
Very best wishes,
Lauren
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Andy Gibson said,
9 December 2008 @ 3:08 pm
Some more blog fives to add to the pool:
Amy Sample Ward of Netsquared
Nice guy 2.0 Steve Bridger
Rhythmaning
Thanks guys!
Also, Kishore Balakrishnan in his five linked to an interview with Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who has this to say about education and mental health:
“nobody litters in Ottawa, but if you go to third world countries, people are littering. What is the difference? Because that has been a part of education…. Similarly, dental hygiene, the physical hygiene we teach, but we are not teaching mental hygiene where you should handle rage and anger and frustration and depression and these sorts of antisocial feelings.”
It feels like I’ve been trying to teach myself this stuff for years on my own, so it’s wonderful that Mindapples is finally helping me connect with other people who are exploring the same thing.
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Sam said,
11 December 2008 @ 9:49 pm
Arrived here via Euan Semple. Enjoying the high fives. Mine are…
* Let go, let life
* Learn something new
* Play with my daughter
* Do something kind or loving for someone (a loved one or a ’stranger’)
* Write five things I’m grateful for in a journal before I sleep
Andy Gibson said,
12 December 2008 @ 12:04 am
Thanks Sam! I wonder, is the number five significant in some way for this stuff?
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12 December 2008 @ 12:27 pm
More fives from our friends across the pond (these blogmemes certainly travel don’t they?):
Britt Bravo
Jennifer Lee (and Ananda Leeke and Molly @ Stratejoy too.)
Jamie Ridler
Jennifer Moore
Leah Piken Kolidas
Snap
Jim Doran
Tori’s Path
Genie Sea
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18 December 2008 @ 12:33 pm
Another great post has popped up from Robin Sutton, including this line:
“Love. It’s sort of like improv. Intimacy begets humor which begets creativity which means you never know what happens next. Surprise yourself.”
I think that’s pretty close to being my new manifesto for life.
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