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Of peacocks and men

One of the most fascinating books I’ve read recently in the ‘what’s happening to us’ gender is Konrad Lorenz’s Civilized Man’s Eight Deadly Sins. The book was published in 1974, and one can imagine the author’s (more…)

NLP: first encounter

I’ve been interested in learning about Neuro-Linguistic Programming for a while, and now, at last I have found the place to start; I’m pretty advanced in the reading of ‘Frogs into Princes‘, by John Grinder and Richard Bandler, which seems to be one of the ‘bibles’ of the technique. The reasons why I intend to post about NLP on the go, as I learn it, are the issue of this post. (more…)

Me & The Other Me’s

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If you have been round here for a while, you’ll know that individual consciousness, and its relations with the mob, is a recurrent issue in this blog. I consider it key to our current situation as a community. Well, the other day I had an insight about this and my first thought, of course, (more…)

If It Doesn’t Collapse You Cannot Rebuild It

Something that really grabbed my attention in Stephen Covey’s ‘The seven habits of the highly effective people’ was the concept of overcompensation. He does not dedicate more than one or two pages to it, but it is such a inspiring fact (more…)

The key, if you ask me…

“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)

How To Connect With Difficult People In Round 5 Seconds

I learned this sentence while looking for some information on empathy. I did not believe much in it at first, it looked kind of naive to me. Here’s how it was supposed to work: (more…)

Is the Internet a lonely place?

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Here’s an original suggestion for thinking outside the box: how about using a different search engine? It makes all sense of the world, from the point of view of a computer being an extension of one’s own brain. O.K., so Google is the best one, its search algorithms combine (more…)

Taking care of oneself

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If you’re as lucky as me, you’ll have, or you’ll have had this fantastic relative (grandpa, an aunt or uncle maybe) who takes care of you in an almost frenzied manner. A sort of die-hard fan of yours obsessed with (more…)