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Slow Never Used to be Bad

There is nothing wrong with being slow, but we seem to have uncritically assigned slowness to the ranks of the undesirable. Associated with this is the idea that boredom should be avoided at all costs, but that is a big mistake. By assuming that boredom is a bad thing we risk losing something vital to our growth and development.

Colour Isn’t Real

Picking up on a recent theme. I mentioned Beau Lotto in a recent post, and promised the video. Under 12 minutes, if you can spare the time. By the way, did you know that the ability to focus our attention correlates with a higher IQ? Twelve minutes shouldn't be a problem then, should it.

How to Be Happy – The Answer to the Quest

On 1st January I shall reveal the answer. This is not a joke, I really will be giving away the result of a 30 year quest which started as a personal study. Too important to keep it to myself, I'll be marking the New Year with this gift. Get ready, and tell your friends and family.

Comments Now Welcome

I am finding different ways to package the nonsense I call 'my ideas'. I am flattered that people are reading my posts and glad that some of you would like to comment, so thank you for your support, and I bow to your polite requests. Comments are now enabled on my posts so you can share your responses and insights.

Who Owns Your Message?

One of the difficulties around communication is that we are given little in the way of practical advice on the topic. Even courses on communication tend to focus on content, and neglect method. If your message is important then the responsibility for understanding lies with you, the sender. If the listener doesn’t want to hear or is otherwise unavailable it is the sender’s job to make it possible for them to hear. Blaming someone for "not listening" may protect us, but it doesn't get the job done.

I know, I know; Another Typo

Please forgive my errors. Despite the best efforts of my teachers and others, I have failed to learn the lesson that I really should do better. Or at least I've failed to act on it, as my previous post this morning showed. How do I keep going? Is it perversity, or some trick of thinking that allows me to overlook the evidence that I'm a failure?

Don’t Just do Something, Sit There!

Turning he old admonishment around produces some surprising thoughts. That's the key to getting control over reactions we'd rather not have. Respond rather than react is all very well, but how do you do it?

Take Your Time Today

Check this list of popular sayings. They have become popular I guess because they resonate with people; they provide sound advice at a moment of need. The evolution of language and culture means that things that are useful stick around, those that are not just don’t get the traction; they fade away and are soon forgotten. This is probably why we don't have sayings like “A stitch in time will never work”; “Two wrongs are probably inevitable”, “Birds of a feather smell bad”, or “When in Rome, eat pizza”. Today, ...

Beware of the Story, It’s Only the Blurb

The stories others tell about us can be likened to the publisher’s blurb on the back cover of a book. The job of the blurb is to describe the book. We are all editing our stories as we go along, and the blurb will change depending on who we are speaking to, our mood, the direction of the wind, or whatever.

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