We all, both as individuals and as cultures, have beliefs that won’t stand the test of time, and very likely some that we will be laughing about years down the road. Fortunately, we are not only time-binders, as Korzybski puts it, we also have the scientific method. You know, the thing that brought us airplanes […]
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Hands up if you had to look up “misandry” but knew immediately what misogyny is. Or, if you’re a member of the minority which has that in their vocabulary, explain why “misogyny” gives ~7 mio. hits on Google while “misandry” gives less than 1 mio. Funny how much our language betrays our bias, isn’t it? […]
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A slight detour from the usual topics, this angry rant by Phil Plait caught much of my attention. In short, the story is this: A woman is in a hotel elevator with a man, it is late at night. He attended her talk earlier and expresses his admiration together with an invitation to coffee at […]
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There is much similarity between this talk by Tony Robbins that I took the post title from and my earlier posting on Steve’s 10 Steps. Priya Sher has summed up Robbins’ the main points well, there are three quotes that I’d like to add: If you’re not doing it, then you don’t know […]
~ read more ~This is actually from an in-flight magazine some five or so years ago. I have a hardcopy of the page, but I don’t remember which airline or who “Steve” was by last name. What I recall is that he is a british coach with a no-nonsense approach. The kind of guy who doesn’t tell you […]
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A while ago, I have come out of a relationship with a women with borderline personality disorder. It was both the most intense relationship and the most damaging breakup of my life, and while there is a vast amount of material on the Internet for partners of borderliners, much of it is walls of text. […]
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I re-watched James Geary’s TED talk about metaphors, which gives a great introduction to the topic: The most memorable part of it is this one: Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: “Cogito ergo sum.” It is routinely translated as, “I think, therefore I am.” But there is a better translation. […]
~ read more ~Nice article with implications: Children don’t need Brain Gym to spot nonsense | Ben Goldacre | The Guardian. What does that say about us? Basically the same thing people like Michael Shermer have been saying for many years: That we tend to believe in stupid things for strange reasons that we are only slowly starting […]
~ read more ~This is a draft, a rough thought, on what makes the difference between monogamous and polygamous people. Any feedback much appreciated. First, what you need to know to follow this thought is Helen Fisher’s research on how love works, biochemically. If you’ve not yet watched her talk: Or read her book , do either of […]
~ read more ~In an article on his blog, Piercarlo Valdesolo, one of the authors of the book “Out of Character”, which I’ve quoted before, writes about an interesting experiment: Forbidding Makes the Heart Grow Fonder | Psychology Today The essence of which is that jealous behaviour and putting limits on your partner will only make him (or […]
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