Posted on: 30th December 2007
I was recently listening to a phone-in quiz on the radio that beautifully demonstrated the structure of overwhelm. It was a movie quiz - The caller was given 30 seconds to name 10 films within a particular genre - for example: 10 romantic comedies or 10 action films. Seems like an easy enough task wouldn’t you agree? But it was amazing - there was loads of ‘ummm’ing and ‘errr’ing and most callers were only able to name 3 or 4 films in the 30 seconds.
Then I noticed something else: (more…)
Posted on: 20th December 2007
Last night (19th Dec) Professor Martin Seligman was interviewed on BBC World’s Hardtalk. Professor Seligman is Chairman of the American Psychological Association, one of the founders of Positive Psychology, and author of books such as Learned Optimism and Authentic Happiness. Over the past decade he has been involved in important applied psychology research investigating ‘What really makes people happy’�
The television exchange was really interesting viewing, with Stephen Sackur attempting to challenge the findings of Seligman and colleagues empirical research. Presented were the conclusions of many studies that argue the obvious; money doesn�t make us happy, and the less obvious; optimism predicts life expectancy.
Professor Seligman was also resolute about the make up of ‘happiness’. To find out the three main factors of happiness view the interview on-line using this link:
Click Here for Hardtalk Interview
For a range of assessment tools and more information on Positive Psychology view Professor Seligmans website www.authentichappiness.com
Michael
Posted on: 14th December 2007
I would like to share my personal opinion with you about yesterday’s rerun of Derren Brown’s TV program ‘The Heist‘ . This program was aired originally about two years ago and yesterday was the first time I’d seen it.
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SantaBy Swen Hollestelle
Posted on: 11th December 2007
Last Saturday was one of those days that goes down in the books as very different. Let me share this with you.
Do you have a group of friends you meet up with on the weekend to catch up and talk about what’s been going on? Well, we figured it would be really good fun to do something different and go into town on Saturday afternoon dressed as Santa. All this with only our own fun in mind so a bit selfish, really.
However, fun things happen when you’re dressed as Santa this time of the year. All of a sudden everyone around you smiles, walking down the street complete strangers start a conversation. You and your mates can have your picture taken with a police officer without getting arrested, you can go the front of the queue and spend less time in outside in the cold. The list of fun moments just goes on!
Is it just me or is it fun to do something different?
Posted on: 6th December 2007
Yesterday left me with some questions yet again, to no surprise really!
Some of these questions popped up after I braved the weather to listen to an interesting lecture at the Royal Society of London, a Francis Crick Prize lecture by Geraint Rees called ‘Decoding Consciousness‘. Now, I’m certainly no expert in the study of the workings of the human brain as you can see here so you can imagine that some of the lecture left me a bit confused.
They managed to show in scans that there is a part of the brain that fires up in response to sensory stimuli even if we consciously are unaware of this. Either I missed the point completely (which is not unthinkable!) or it was a confirmation of something I already know.
Think about it for a moment……. As you sit here reading this how consciously aware are you of the temperature of the room, the brightness of the lights, etc? Not very much probably until I just pointed your attention to it. This to me shows that what we are consciously aware of is only a small part of what is really going on in reality (reality being another question, I’ll leave this one till later!).
So, is it just me or is this the question here; Is your consciousness something to rely on to paint you a picture of ‘reality’, to tell you what is really going on, to make you feel in touch with the world?
Posted on: 4th December 2007
Well………
My name is Swen and this is my first blog. I’m having such a great time discovering all sorts of fantastic new things lately that I think it would be a crime to keep them all to myself. By blogging some of these stories and experiences I’m presuming that they might be of interest to you.
Like earlier when I was on my way home after a day in our office (I work for noggin, we provide you with options and possibilities). Walking through the crowds of people busy with their Christmas shopping on this slightly rainy Friday afternoon I suddenly had this sinking feeling I’d forgotten something, you ever have that feeling? (more…)
Posted on: 1st December 2007
For anyone interested in NLP, I would like to share with you something that was brought to my attention by Dr. John Grinder in early 2007. A recent Neurological discovery may go a long way to explain the phenomenon of rapport and real NLP Modeling.
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