Success is often depicted as a distant, elusive goal, but in reality, it is a result of consistent, intentional actions. Many people dream of achieving success, but few take the necessary steps to make it a reality. This blog post will explore practical strategies to help you take action and become more successful in various […]
Since the movie “The Secret” was released, and its companion book of the same name, I’ve been asked a lot about The Law of Attraction. Bear in mind that I’m a pragmatist so if something is useful, even if I can’t explain it or prove it, I’ll use it. Before anything else, I do believe […]
I once had an acquaintance who disliked my use of the word “elegant.” I meant that in a mathematical sense, or if you prefer, a linguistic one. I meant “simplicity,” the beauty of economy and to me, just as a simple sentence or equation could be “elegant,” so could a life. Though the pleasures of […]
Now let’s build upon what we’ve learned about Radical Understanding. We’ve spoken about reading invisible channels, setting aside our perceptual filters to get real information, paying close attention, and even to eliciting the other person’s strategies and identifying the relevant parts of the other person’s Map of the World. Remember what we said about Map […]
We’ve now spoken in prior articles about the difference between observation and interpretation, as well as invisible channels of communication. We’ve further explored how learning to pay attention to everything, setting aside any filters which limit us, affording us full access to our perception. This can appear to others to be a form of “extrasensory” […]
We’ve now spoken about the difference between observation and interpretation. Because this is an important distinction as we learn to better read others, we’re going to explore it a bit further. We want to develop the habit of noticing what’s before us without applying significance or meaning to it. Any interpretation of what we’ve observed […]
Previously, we spoke about the very important skill of Calibration. The ability to detect the differences in people–observable shifts in their outward behaviors–is critical to Persuasion. As part of Radical Understanding, however, this takes on an even deeper meaning. Learning to calibrate changes in others as well as ourselves, as we strive to understand other […]
Some of you already know the trance state by name. Others don’t recognize it as trance when they’re in trance. But we all do it. Trance, or an altered state, occurs naturally all the time. If you’ve ever “zoned out,” daydreamed, fantasized, visualized something in the (possible) future, or recalled something from the past so […]
Our previous two articles explored the first two of three big reasons resolutions fail. You remember, “Knowing what to do, but not doing what we know.” We’ve covered that Ecology is a big reason for many. Sometimes we want to introduce a new behavior that, while we may desire it and believe it will be […]
In my previous article, I mentioned that there are three big reasons why resolutions fail, why we make goals, create daily steps to follow, and at times, don’t do it. Some have called this “Knowing what to do, but not doing what we know.” I mentioned in that article that Ecology is a big reason […]