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Blink

Just got around to reading Blink. It’s a quick read - as usual with Gladwell the book’s central theme, the human ability to make almost instant decisions based on the unconscious mind and previously-acquired experience, is presented lucidly and with plenty of examples. He structures the book in three broad areas: Evidence of human ability to make [...]

An experience of Dialogue

I describe an experimental evening of Bohmian Dialogue, co-hosted by Johnnie Moore, Alok Singh and Mark Hodge.

Talking about Time

Time Lines Where’s your future? Where’s your past? Puzzled? Let me re-phrase that. Think of something mundane that is going to happen tomorrow - perhaps brushing your teeth in the morning. Notice where you represent that idea, in the space around or inside you. Think now of something a little further into the future - next week [...]

Does it work?

New on the blogroll is The “Does it Work?” Diary from my friend Clare Walker. She’s taken on the challenge of documenting “Which personal development techniques actually work”, and amongst other things is documenting a self-experiment on the positive affect on mood obtained by abstaining from watching television news. She says: I’m not certain why this [...]

The importance of knowing what you want

Joe Ely writes about Lean Manufacturing Systems. One of the core tenets of Lean is to gather frequent feedback about the difference between what you planned to do and what you actually did, reflect on the difference and do something about it. The key thing is doing something about it. Today he tells a story [...]

Testing Compendium and the Illusion of Explanatory Depth

Trying out the Compendium software leads to a speculation about how little most of us normally dig into a given area of knowledge...

Mental models and the ladder of inference

The Ladder of Influence - exploring mental models in a group

Hypertasking

Ming links to this article about research into “Hypertasking” which suggests that although frantic multi-tasking (with the help of phones, IM, email, feeds, etc., etc., etc.) has the appearance of productivity the reality is of significantly reduced performance on the individual cognitive tasks. This is not the first study to suggest that multi-tasking makes [...]

The Power of Context

Amy Gahran writes about the power of context to stimulate new idea creation and develops a few ideas for creativity enhancements to KM tools. I share a few of my own associations (including Tony Goodson's writing on bricolage) and push the tools ideas a little further.

The Boy Outside the Classroom

Observations by Denny Coates about seperateness remind me of an image from my past and the things it has changed into.

Looking backwards: Gratitude

Elizabeth Lane Lawley points to an AP article that refers to this project on the psychological and health benefits of expressing gratitude for the good things in your life. The idea that there is a relationship between thoughts and health is not a new one in the NLP field. See for example the Institute [...]

Positive Psychology

Martin Seligman's positive psychology - "Authentic Happiness"

Lean Project Management - it’s about what you notice

Over at Reforming Project Management Hal Macomber is seeking to transfer the learning from Lean Production into the project management world. In Lean Production there exists the concept of the “visual workplace”, commonly expressed through the 5S model. Hal points out that projects may not always involve material products and resources but always involve people [...]

Blogging network and the neuro-semantics of trust

Gary Lawrence Murphy picks up the thread about Bridges and Bubbles and asks some fundamental questions about how we should evaluate the value of each link on the graph: The bridge itself may be an accident of happenstance and bandwidth, but to grow ourselves, we’re enticed (or compelled) to test each path for inter-networked recommender [...]

Systems Thinking for Relationships

Application of ideas from "The Tipping Point" combined with NLP to resolving relationship conflicts

Leisure Sickness

Article in the Guardian on Ad Vingerhoets’ research into people who get ill whenever they stop work… Other work published by Vingerhoets is listed here Technorati Tags: Psychology

A taste of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Introductory article on NLP

Minds and stuff…

One of the things that’s been keeping me away from blogging over the last few months is taking some trainings in, and reading about, Neuro Semantics. More detail on Neuro-Semantics another time, but for now I’ll describe it as an extension to the NLP model of human perception. Technorati Tags: Psychology

Stress expert calls for special ‘grumpiness banned’ day

A stress management expert wants the US to have a special day when people are banned from being grumpy. She wants people to be fined for frowning and to wear special hats when they’re caught being unhappy. (via EVHEAD) Technorati Tags: Psychology

NLP Anchors

In wiring my mind Swerdloff gives a great description of a practical application of the NLP Anchoring technique to associate a particular song with the moment of perfect beauty as he kisses his girl… “I have a strange question” I told her. “Yeah?” “Can I kiss you? For the duration of this song.” “Of course.” [...]

Back to Win Wenger Again

In his longer article You Are Brighter Than You Think he notes the “first law of psychology” Each time you notice something which others likely have not, even if seemingly trivial, like the play of shadows on the wall or the way So-and-So came into the room–and you don’t express or record that bit of observation, [...]

A Useful Contemplation?

In his October Winsights column Win Wenger encourages us to think of ourselves as a rather complex swirl of confluent possibilities, interacting with other streams of possibility amidst larger overall flow. Win has some fascinating ideas, and I find it intriguing how his scientific approach to stretching the human mind seems to have so much in common [...]

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