Zerebria

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…)

“I am through with it. I wonder which sick minds could conceive that I am in charge of this world, and how such a nonsensical idea can have become so popular. I cannot stand the pressure anymore, (more…)

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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…)

I feel terrible. My throat is spiked with thorns, I have this intermittent pain in my articulations, I’m cold, I’m hot. A few minutes ago, I went into the shower before removing my soaked sheets, after a night of what only very generously could be named as “sleep”. I remember a moment after shower, when I (more…)

While any moment is good to start, personal journaling has always been a classical example of new year resolution. And a very healthy one: it increases your awareness and allows you to squeeze to the most the juice of every moment. Furthermore: in an age where time plays and fools us so badly, I have come to think that journaling (more…)

In his classic work ‘De Bono’s Thinking Course‘, the master of creative thinking Edward de Bono (of the ‘Six Thinking Hats‘ fame) exposes a series of techniques to improve reasoning, as a sort of exhaustive “thought gym”. One of his exercises consists in (more…)

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…”but I used to have a calendar!”

Don’t worry: you still do. It is just that it is not going to be that populated anymore. Allen’s methodology reduces its using to:

a) events with a fixed date (dentist, birthday, deadline set by somebody else) (more…)