Archive for December, 2009


One World, One Culture, One People?

We’re the Same, You And Me Recently I’ve been reading this fascinating book by Steven Pinker, called “The Language Instinct.” If you are at all interested in language, psychology, or how the human brain is structured, you can’t go wrong with this book. In it he treats language as an instinct, rather than a learned [...]

Read More...

The Unicycle Queen

Who Is The Real Harpo? So the other day I was hanging out downtown. Maybe a week or so ago, I can’t recall the exact date. I had originally gone downtown to see the latest movie that has finally made it’s way to my neighborhood, only to find out that the time listed on their [...]

Read More...

How To Love Mistakes And Failures

Are You Afraid Of Trying? There was this prominent business leader giving an interview on a famous talk show. He had built several large companies, and had enjoyed massive amounts of success with them. It wasn’t always this way. We often make a mistake of perception when we see successful people. We assume that they [...]

Read More...

How To Tap The Feeling Exercise For Incredible Power And Charisma

How To Find Your Untapped Resources If you are ever in situation where you feel out of control or at a loss on how respond to any particular situation, here’s a quick mental exercise that can give you a boost. When done in isolation, it can give you some perspective, and briefly shake off any [...]

Read More...

How To Genetically Alter Your Personality

DNA – Is It In You? I had this pretty cool revelation, or idea, this morning while I was out walking that I’d like to share with you. It’s one of those ideas that make perfect sense until you try to explain it to somebody else, and then it sounds like utter nonsense. Hopefully this [...]

Read More...

How To Change Your History For An Easier Future

Are You Using Outdated Programs? I was taking this self-development seminar once, and the guy was saying that thinking about your future is like driving a car. At least when it comes to comparing how much time you should focus on the future, versus how much time you should focus on the path. His analogy [...]

Read More...

The Dangers Of Your Comfort Zone

How To Expand Your Limits I had this fish once a few years ago. Actually, I had several fishes. I don’t know what go into me, but I got the idea that I wanted to have a tropical fish tank in my apartment. And as luck would have it, there was a tropical fish store [...]

Read More...

How Many Levels Is Your Communication?

The Depth Of Perception I was riding my bike downtown yesterday when I bumped into a friend. Not quite a friend, but an acquaintance. Some people have hundreds of people that they could consider friends, but I have a clear distinction in my mind between a friend and an acquaintance. Certainly acquaintanceships can grow into [...]

Read More...

How The Rabbit Discovered The Secret Of Life

The Magic Of Multiplication Once upon a time there was this rabbit. He was like any other normal rabbit, except when it came to chasing down carrots, he was a little bit afraid. When he was a young rabbit, just at the stage when rabbits learn how to dig for their own food, he set [...]

Read More...

Money Love

Open The Floodgates I remember I went on this backpacking trip once. We had planned it out fairly thoroughly, reading several guidebooks, and buying maps with different levels detail. One thing that we couldn’t really plan on was the size of the rivers. The mountains we were planning on hiking in were in the Sierra [...]

Read More...

Powered by Yahoo! Answers

Switch to our mobile site